Advisory Council
The Achievement Academy Board of Directors is very pleased to announce the creation of the Advisory Council. This is a body of community members who are willing and able, through their experience and community standing in Durham, to help AAD to further its strategic goals and objectives.
John Bowman
Attorney-Maxwell, Freeman and Bowman, PA
Chair of Urban Ministries of Durham
Marcia Morey
District Court Judge
Lorana Price
CEO, Holy Cow Branding
Nicholas J. Tennyson
Former Mayor of Durham
Executive Vice President of the Home Builders Assn. of Durham, Orange & Chatham Counties
Mark Trustin
Attorney
Legal advocate for at-risk youth
Sylvia Kerckhoff
Former Mayor of Durham
Gaston Warner
Former Development Director: Habitat for Humanity, Durham
Director of University and Community Relations Duke University
Quella's Success Story
I am 17. When I was younger, my father slapped me around most of the time and my mother didn’t have time for me. One night when my father came home drunk, he beat me very badly. That was the first time life that I ever fought back, but it didn’t help me at all. That was the beginning of me rebelling against my father. By the time I was 13, my parents divorced. My mother started dating and seeing new people. I struggled with my mother because she put her ‘relationships’ before my sister and me. At 14 years old I was going through hell. I started having thoughts about killing myself and hurting the people around me. My life was defined by problems at school and problems at home. At 15 I was getting in fights and hanging out with the wrong crowd in school. I eventually got into a fight that resulted in my getting expelled from school for the rest of the year. At the age of 16 I had to start ninth grade all over again. That was very depressing and hard for me to face.
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