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Alma Blount
HLP Director
Alma Blount is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy Studies and
Director of Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL), a leadership
mentoring initiative for undergraduates in the Hart Leadership Program
of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. She teaches courses about
civic participation and community leadership, systems analysis and
problem solving within organizations, and service leadership.
She is a co-founder of Insight, an association that provides consultations
to nonprofits and small businesses in strategic planning, financial
management, fund accounting, fundraising, team building, community
collaboration, research and writing. She designed and served as
the lead trainer for the Community Fellows Program, a grassroots
leadership development program for day-care providers and family
resource center directors in Eastern North Carolina. She also served
as strategic planning coach for North Carolina's Smart Start Program
to improve early childhood education and other resources for famili
es and children.
In 1992 she was a teaching fellow in the Leadership Education Project
of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She has also held
leadership positions in the Witness for Peace Program in Durham,
N.C., where she managed programs for international, faith-based,
human-rights organizations in the U.S. and Central America, and
in the Carolina Interfaith Task Force on Central America in Raleigh,
N.C. She has organized and led delegations from the U.S. on educational
tours of El Salvador, and worked as a social worker inspecting migrant
camps in eastern North Carolina. She is the former photo editor
of The Independent newspaper in Durham, N.C.
She has an M.Div. Degree from Harvard and a B.A. in journalism
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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