Jan 18, 2022
Organized by the Office of Women's Advancement and Advocacy with the support of the DE Department of Human Resources and Delaware Women's Hall of Fame Committee.
Year Honored: 2016
Biography
Chandra G. Pitts is a “driven social entrepreneur.” She began her career organizing youth in Jamaica whose families could not afford to send them to school and continued her school-based community service in the years since. In 2008, Pitts developed “the largest school-based mentoring program in Delaware’s Christina School District, serving 247 at-risk youth.”
She founded The Village Learning Center in 2009, “securing a 2.1 million dollar federally funded contract to continue her work with marginalized youth.” Her model was adopted by both the Delaware and New Jersey Departments of Education, serving 47 schools and creating over 60 new jobs. This program led to her next venture – One Village Alliance, a non-profit organization of which Pitts is founder and CEO. Part of One Village Alliance is the “Girls Can do Anything!” program that has “engaged more than 1300 phenomenal females to redefine womanhood and what it means to be a girl."
Pitts was named 2015 Hometown Hero by Glamour Magazine, and as of 2021 is the youngest member to be inducted into the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame.
See Full Article Here: https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/owaa/artwork/chandra-g-pitts?collection=2016