Politics & Government

Hall to serve on Leadership Atlanta board of trustees

Atlanta District 2 city councilmember is an alumnus of LEAD Atlanta, a Leadership Atlanta initiative specifically for young professionals.

Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall has been selected to serve on the Board of Trustees for Leadership Atlanta, the longest-running community leadership program in the nation.

Hall is a proud graduate of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2007. In addition to graduating from Leadership Atlanta’s core program, Hall is also an alumnus of LEAD Atlanta, a Leadership Atlanta initiative specifically for young professionals.

Leadership Atlanta’s mission is to build a better community by inspiring and educating its members and graduates to exercise real leadership committed to serving the common good in the metro Atlanta region.

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Through retreats, full-day seminars, service projects, discussion groups and community tours, members of Leadership Atlanta explore community issues, examine themselves as leaders and build relationships of trust and mutual understanding.

“I am honored to join the Board of Trustees,” Hall said in a news release. “As a graduate of both LEAD Atlanta and Leadership Atlanta, I hope that I can offer a unique perspective to the board.”

This year, Leadership Atlanta is commemorating 43 years of cultivating leaders in the metro area. With an all-embracing network of distinguished alumni, Leadership Atlanta continues a proud tradition of bringing together inspiring role models and leaders to strengthen Atlanta’s communities.

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Leadership Atlanta was formed by a concerned group of citizens at the Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta’s City Hall, as a formal initiative to address the need for a more knowledgeable cadre of committed leaders. It became an independent organization in 1977.

Hall represents District 2, which includes a dozen neighborhoods in the heart of the city including Downtown, Georgia State University, Castleberry Hill, the Marietta Artery, Home Park, Georgia Tech, Atlantic Station, Midtown, Sweet Auburn, the Old Fourth Ward, Poncey-Highland, and Inman Park.

He currently chairs the Atlanta City Council’s Advisory Committee on International Relations (ACIR). Before his election to City Council, Hall served three years on the Atlanta Board of Education.

An Atlanta native, Hall is a graduate of Benjamin E. Mays High School and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among the boards on which he currently serves: Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, Midtown Improvement District, Operation HOPE’s Southeast Regional Board, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Hall is an alumnus of the German Marshall Memorial Fellowship Program (2007); Leadership Georgia (2007); and the Regional Leadership Institute (2006). 

Councilmember Hall and his wife Natalie Hall live in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District. They have two sons, Mario and Marc.


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