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Tamyka Perine Named Executive Director

October 14, 2021

Cultural Leadership Board of Trustees has named Tamyka Perine as the organization’s new Executive Director.

Perine’s background as Director of Development and consultant, along with her passion for ensuring inclusion, diversity, equity and access in the St. Louis region, will help further the mission of the nonprofit and comes as the organization develops a plan for strategic growth in programs, development and outreach.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to lead Cultural Leadership and help grow its footprint in the St. Louis community,” said Perine. “Especially in today’s climate, our work to educate youth on social justice issues and train them on how to serve as the next generation of civic leaders and social justice changemakers is more important than ever. If we truly want to improve the community and move St. Louis away from its longstanding history of division and inequity, then this is where we have to start. It is our responsibility to teach our young people to stand up for what they believe in, speak out against oppression, and take action against injustice.”

Perine will act as the third Executive Director in the organization’s 17-year history and will be the first woman of color to assume the helm.

Prior to taking on her role as Executive Director of Cultural Leadership, Perine served as Director of Development for City Academy, a local independent school in north St. Louis City committed to removing financial and economic barriers to high-quality education. Her passion for meaningfully impacting the community led to her consulting with numerous local and national non-profits, including United Negro College Fund, Saint Louis Fashion Fund and Ferguson Youth Initiative through the business she founded, Prestige Consultants, LLC. “We are so excited to have Tamyka join us,” shared Dr. Ryia Ross-Peterson, Board Chair, Cultural Leadership. “Her enthusiasm and passion for youth and creating social change agents will really launch Cultural Leadership into a robust future!”

Journey to Justice: Golden Gala

August 13, 2021

Join us for a formal evening of entertainment and recognition
as Cultural Leadership unites the St. Louis community and presents
the Troublemaker of the Best Kind, “Good Trouble,” and Distinguished Alumni awards!

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For questions or more information about sponsorship opportunities, contact Stephanie Briggs at SBriggs@CulturalLeadership.org.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is gone, but will never be forgotten.

October 8, 2020

Cultural Leadership, and the world, mourns the death of another social justice leader this year. For more than a decade, Justice Ginsberg made time to meet with Cultural Leadership students each summer during their Transformational Journey. She was always willing to have open dialogues with students, detailing the hard road to justice, times she succeeded, times she failed, and always inspiring them to fight for what they believed in.

When meeting Justice Ginsburg for the first time, students were often surprised at how such might could come in the form of such a tiny woman. Students have commented how just meeting her and learning about her pursuit of justice motivated them to pursue their own dreams and support the under-represented.

Justice Ginsburg’s actions and ideas will continue to light a path for Cultural Leadership’s young leaders and change-makers. We thank her for all that she’s done and all who she’s inspired. May she rest in peace and power.

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    Class 12 with Justice Ginsburg; Class 12 students were filmed with Justice Ginsburg and featured in RGB, the Oscar nominated documentary.

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    Class 14 with Justice Ginsburg

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    Justice Ginsburg speaks to Cultural Leadership students.

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    Class 8 with Justice Ginsburg

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    Class 6 with Justice Ginsburg

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    Cultural Leadership students meet with Justice Ginsburg

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    Class 13 with Justice Ginsburg

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    Making the documentary film "RBG," in which Class 12 students appear.

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John Lewis

August 3, 2020

Rep. John Robert Lewis is gone, but will never be forgotten.

For more than 15 years, Congressman Lewis met with the students of Cultural Leadership each summer during their Transformational Journey. He shared his story of growing up in rural Alabama and raising and preaching to chickens. He told us about his march across the bridge at Selma, about speaking to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington, and about fearing for his life on the Freedom Rides.

He inspired our students with his insistence that they, too, can be leaders – telling them that they have “a moral obligation, a mission, and a mandate to speak up and speak out and get in good trouble. You can do it. You must do it.”

We will stand on his shoulders and continue the work. May he rest in freedom.

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    Rep. John Lewis with members of Cultural Leadership Class 4.

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    Rep. John Lewis speaks with members of Cultural Leadership Class 14.

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    Rep. John Lewis posing with Cultural Leadership Class 12.

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    Rep. John Lewis sharing his story with Cultural Leadership Class 9.

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    Cultural Leadership students of Class 13 walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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    Cultural Leadership Class 11 traces the footsteps of Rep. John Lewis across Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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    Rep. John Lewis speaks with Cultural Leadership Class 3.

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    Rep. John Lewis poses with Cultural Leadership Class 10.

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Annual Trivia Night: Feb. 29

December 31, 2019

Doors Open: 6:15 P.M.
Trivia Starts: 7:00 P.M.
Location: Whitfield School, 175 S. Mason Rd., St. Louis, MO 63141

Cultural Leadership’s annual Trivia Night is a fundraising event that engages local community members in a fun evening of competitive trivia. With 50/50 games, raffle drawings, a silent and live auction, and eight rounds of original trivia, this event has grown to become our most popular. Proceeds from Trivia Night support our award-winning youth leadership programs.

Buy A Table!

  • Tables of 10: $250
  • VIP Tables: $350 (includes eight mulligans, snacks, and prime seating)

We have three levels of sponsorship for this event. Interested? Click here to learn more!

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