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Jaclyn Boyes, an American Express Leadership Academy alumna, selected for Global Alumni Summit
March 14, 2019 (Phoenix, Ariz.) – Jaclyn Boyes, a 2017 graduate of the American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center, was selected to participate in the American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit, March 31 to April 2, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
The fifth annual summit brings together a select group of 80 emerging social-purpose leaders with representatives from American Express Leadership Academy partners for continued professional development, relationship-building and collaboration.
Boyes is the donor relations manager for A New Leaf, a nonprofit based in Mesa, Ariz. She was part of the ninth class of graduates from the ASU Lodestar Center’s American Express Leadership Academy and was selected as her class' graduation speaker, delivering an inspirational address about her leadership journey. In 2018, she was recognized by the Phoenix Business Journal as a Top 40 Under 40 professional for helping to pass a bill for free IDs for homeless veterans.
The ASU Lodestar Center has been an American Express Leadership Academy partner since 2014, when the center brought its Generation Next Academy under the AmEx umbrella.
The 9-month American Express Leadership Academy, designed for mid- to senior-level executives, provides best-practice approaches to leading and managing nonprofits from renowned professors and practitioner instructors at ASU, as well as established nonprofit leaders from organizations that engage with the ASU Lodestar Center.
Applications for Class 12 are being accepted now; the deadline is May 6. Interested applicants can learn more about the program at an Info Session and Happy Hour on March 27, 2019, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Ocotillo Restaurant and Bar in Phoenix.