Changing Communities, Changing Lives: Jamilla Harper, COO, Metanoia

How do you change communities for the better? How do you restore hope and belief to a community that had long felt forgotten? How do you empower the citizens of that community and their children to take charge in creating a new future? That's what Metanoia is doing in North Charleston, South Carolina, and College of Charleston graduate Jamilla Harper is a key change agent for this innovative non-profit. Harper is Metanoia's Chief Operations Officer, responsible for helping translate Metanoia's ambitious vision into reality. She graduated in 2008 from the College of Charleston, where she was a double major in Communication and Spanish. Since that time, she has had an amazing journey, including living and working in Kenya for six years, where she earned her master’s degree at the University of Nairobi. More recently, she has been named one of the “twelve Black leaders to know” by The Post and Courier, Charleston’s daily newspaper, and an honoree of the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” class of 2023. Listen to her fascinating account, and how her mentors played a key role along the way.

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