Bunnie Lempesis Ward
Class of 2019 Fellow
Director- Governmental Relations & Communications, SC Commission on Higher Education
Location
Columbia
Occupation
Director- Governmental Relations & Communications, SC Commission on Higher Education
Career History
Director - Policy Development and Evaluation, South Carolina Education Oversight Committee; Director, Early Education and Policy, United Way of the Midlands; Director, Community Capacity Building, United Way of the Midlands; Director - Public Policy/Assistant State Director for Children's Issue Campaign, Voices for SC's Children
Education
M.P.P., University of Southern California
B.A. in Sociology (cum laude), Harvard University
Community Involvement
Chair, United Way of the Midlands Education Council and School Improvement Council for Harbison West Elementary; Member - School Improvement Council for Irmo Middle School, Lexington-Richland School District Five AdvanceEd Accreditation and Health Education Committees; Boards - United Way of the Midlands and District Five Foundation
Mentor
Bunnie Lempesis Ward in the news
Fourth graders in Irmo meet their Kindred Kids pen pals
December 13, 2019
IRMO, S.C. — Fourth graders at Harbison West Elementary School got to meet a pen pal they have been anonymously been writing to all semester.
Source: WLTX19, Emily Correll
Students celebrate diversity through pen pal project
January 7, 2019
Kindred Kids, a pen pal program that promotes friendship and acceptance among kids from diverse backgrounds, held its first fall gathering in Columbia December 12 at Harbison West Elementary.
Source: The Irmo News