{"id":1318,"date":"2023-08-08T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:23:17","slug":"pace-center-for-girls-welcomes-new-executive-director-of-pace-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/pace-center-for-girls-welcomes-new-executive-director-of-pace-citrus","title":{"rendered":"Pace Center for Girls Welcomes New Executive Director of Pace Citrus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/\">Pace Center for Girls<\/a>&nbsp;(Pace), a nationally-recognized model that provides education, counseling, training and advocacy for girls and young women, proudly announces the appointment of Angela Kennedy as Executive Director of Pace Citrus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAngela is a dynamic, collaborative leader who has the vision and experience to advance our mission in Citrus County,\u201d said Mary Marx, Pace President and CEO. \u201cI look forward to working alongside Angela as she engages the Citrus community in Pace\u2019s work and reaches more girls along the West Central coast of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With over two decades of academic leadership and social service experience, Kennedy has worked extensively on access to education and services for underserved communities through various roles at the Hernando County School District. She has a proven record of community impact and most recently served as the Director of Federal Programs for the Hernando County School District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to lead Pace Citrus and empower this community\u2019s next generation of girls and young women,\u201d said Angela Kennedy, Executive Director at Pace Citrus. \u201cWhen we focus on supporting girls, they gain the power to achieve success in all areas of their lives, leading to positive outcomes for themselves, their families and our Citrus community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pace Citrus, located in Lecanto, Fl, was founded in 2018 and annually serves over 100 girls ages 11\u201317. The Pace model aims to ensure that things like lack of awareness, transportation and finances do not become a barrier to providing the holistic academic and social services that girls need.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor many girls in Citrus County, coming to Pace is one of their first opportunities to have their mental and emotional health needs met,\u201d said Carole Savage, former Executive Director of Pace Citrus. \u201cAs I focus on our program operations in Marion County, I look forward to seeing Angela continue to expand our model in Citrus County and reach more girls.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy was recognized as Hernando County Teacher of the Year (2010-2011), Weeki Wachee High School Teacher of the Year (2010-2011), Central High School Teacher of the Year (2006-2007) and Brooksville Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year (2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy holds a bachelor\u2019s in secondary English education and master\u2019s in education leadership from Saint Leo University and is certified by the Florida Department of Education in Educational Leadership, English for Speakers of Other Languages (grades K-12) and English (grades 6-12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pace proudly announces the appointment of Angela Kennedy as Executive Director of Pace Citrus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"post_tag":[59],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pace-citrus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}