CHARTER LEADERS LUNCHEON
This event achieved on of our organizational goals by convening the leadership teams of our respective executives, representing a historic moment of collaboration in Detroit’s charter school landscape.
INVITED SPEAKER
Dr. Stephen Perry
Dr. Steve Perry is an educator, bestselling author, and Founder and
Head of Schools, at Capital Preparatory Schools. Using his powerful
voice, fighting for disadvantaged children and families for thirty years, Dr. Perry is widely respected as an educator, social worker and public speaker.
Dr. Steve Perry's unique and powerful voice has been featured on MSNBC, Fox, CNN, Al Jazeera, TV One, BET, and many others. He is the educator Oprah Winfrey, Bishop TD Jakes and Steve Harvey call on to offer insight to parents and children. A diverse array of politicians and groups, from the Urban League to ALEC, have reached out to Dr. Perry to better understand what matters to parents.
Dr. Perry's commitment to youth, family wellness, and educational excellence started as the former founder and principal of Capital Prep Magnet School in Hartford, CT, which the U.S. News and World Report cited in 2006 as one of the top schools in the country. He accomplished sending 100% of its predominantly low-income, minority, first-generation high school graduates to four-year colleges. Since the conception of his first school, and currently, with 5 successful open schools, his impact is profound and varied and displays no signs of slowing down.
