Leadership Texarkana Class of 2020-2021
/Thirty-five Texarkana area residents recently completed the year-long Leadership Texarkana flagship community leadership program. They were honored for their commitment to Texarkana’s future on April 27 during an End of Year Celebration at the home of LT’s Executive Director, Ruth Ellen Whitt. Given lingering COVID concerns, the event was limited to LT grads and guests, and hosted by the Leadership Texarkana Board. The evening also focused on the importance of contributions by the hundred-plus facilitators, sponsors, presenters, hosts and administrators who made the program possible.
Through their involvement in Leadership Texarkana this past year, the participants in the program were given frameworks for understanding the leadership required to lead in our community, as well as the challenges and opportunities in the greater Texarkana area surrounding economic development, health care, government and courts, quality of life initiatives, public and higher education, media, and the private public and nonprofit sectors.
Applications for the upcoming program for 2021-22 can be found and completed online at LeadershipTexarkana.com; the deadline for applications is June 23. It is a competitive application process, with the numbers of participants accepted annually averaging 30 individuals. On June 10, from 5-6:30 p.m., Leadership Texarkana will host an informal recruitment event at the Twisted Fork Meeting Room for Texarkana area residents interested in applying for the LT Class of 2022.
