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Deacon Lesley-Ann Drake, Executive Director, began working full-time for Path To Shine® in January 2011. Lesley-Ann worked for American Express Travel for 19 years in a variety of management positions. During that time she was very involved with the Georgia meeting planning trade association, sitting on the Board for three years, co-chairing their annual fundraiser to benefit the Atlanta Food Bank, as well as being the 1996 recipient of the Hayward C. Cox Award for her contributions to the organization. ​Lesley-Ann's extensive personal, professional, and ministry-related contacts enabled her to start Path To Shine® in 2010, relying on donations of time, space, and goods. In 2011 she worked with a colleague to start Path To Shine® in Macon, and 2012 saw the beginning of Path To Shine® at San Benedicto in Smyrna. Thanks to a grant from the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation, she completed the LEAD program where she learned additional skills to successfully lead a non-profit organization. Ordained a permanent deacon in the Episcopal Church in 2011, Lesley-Ann is currently assigned to St. Patrick's in Dunwoody. She is an Associate at Green Bough House of Prayer. She is married and has 2 daughters. Lesley-Ann looks forward to sharing this effective and adaptable model for Path To Shine® with others, thus spreading the opportunities of inspiring more children to achieve hope-filled dreams.

On March 10, 2020 our Executive Director, Deacon Lesley-Ann Drake received the Nikki J. Randall Servant Leadership Award from the Georgia Women's Legislative Caucus, a bipartisan group of women legislators. Lesley-Ann was honored for her work with Path To Shine®.The award was presented by Senator Sally Harrell at the Georgia State Capitol. Each member of the Georgia Women's Legislative Caucus selects one female from their district. Lesley-Ann was nominated by Dunwoody Mayor, Lynn Deutsch.

View Lesley-Ann's testimony by clicking on the Path To Shine® logo in the left margin of this page.

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Path To Shine®
A Jubilee Center of the Episcopal Church USA

100% funded through the support of generous donors, we are a self-sustaining ministry of St. Benedict's Episcopal Church with affiliates across the State of Georgia.

2160 Cooper Lake Rd.
Smyrna, GA 30080
Phone: 678.279.4308

     
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