Staff
Founder and Executive Director
Heather Harvison
As founder and Executive Director, Heather Harvison, is responsible for development and funding, strategic planning and partnerships, board recruitment, and programmatic oversight and staff management. In 2011, she was selected for The Daily Record‘s 2011 VIP List, Successful by 40. Harvison was awarded the 2010 MLK Content of Character distinction award from the Baltimore County Office of Fair Practice and Community Affairs. That same year, she was featured in Baltimore Magazine. In 2009, she was chosen by The Daily Record as an “up and comer” on their list of influential Marylanders in the Philanthropy category and was featured on NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams and the Today Show. In 2008, Heather was recognized as one of the Baltimore Business Journals’ Top Forty Under Forty. Heather holds a Masters of Arts in Teaching from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations and Advertising from Mary Baldwin College. She is also a 2009 graduate of The Leadership program through the Greater Baltimore Committee.
Director of College Counseling
Blair White
Blair White has been a college counselor for over 15 years, in private, parochial, public, and boarding schools in three different states (Virginia, Texas, and Maryland). In Maryland, she has worked at Bryn Mawr School, Oldfields School, and Sisters Academy of Baltimore and has read applications for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Johns Hopkins University. Her position at Baltimore City College High School had the most impact. There, she supported students from inner city Baltimore in realizing their dreams of being the first in their families to attend college and she remains committed to that mission. Blair earned a Masters in Education in Counselor Education from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Virginia.
Program Director
Lela Knight
Lela Knight brings a variety of skills to the position of Program Director, including client services, marketing, event planning, business administration, volunteer management and program planning for children. She has worked with Girls Incorporated, an advocacy program in St. Louis, and is the past president of Families with Children from China Maryland. Lela is also an interior designer, and has chaired the Maryland Historical Society Antiques Show as well as the Young Friends of the American Wing Committee at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia as well as the Maryland Institute College of Art.