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Board of Education of the District of Columbia Carrie L. Thornhill Confirmation Resolution of 2003
PR 15-0218

Chairman Linda W. Cropp at the request of the Mayor

A PROPOSED RESOLUTION IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

To confirm the appointment of Ms. Carrie L. Thornhill to the Board of Education of the District of Columbia.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Board of Education of the District of Columbia Carrie L. Thornhill Confirmation Resolution of 2003".

Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the appointment of

Ms. Carrie L. Thornhill
2059 36th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20020
(Ward 7)

as a member of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, established by section 2 of the School Governance Companion Amendment Act of 2000, effective July 18, 2000 (D.C. Law 13-149; D.C. Official Code §1-204.95), replacing Roger Wilkins, whose term ended December 14, 2002, for a term to end December 14, 2006.

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, each to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.

Biographical Sketch
for
Carrie L. Thornhill
2059 36th Street, SE
Washington, D C 20020

Carrie Thornhill has been actively engaged in public education reform: community development, research for action, social action and community building work for over 40 years. For seven years, she has served as Vice President for Youth Investment and Community outreach with DC Agenda. Her leadership, programmatic and management responsibilities include: Youth Investment, School-to-Careers, Neighborhood Support Programs-DC Neighborhood College, and Neighborhood Information Services. She is a member of the DC School-to-Careers/Youth Investment Council and oversees resource development, compliance with program and contracting requirements and evaluation. She is a founder of DC VOICE and serves as convener of the Supports for Quality Teaching Policy Advisory Group. She is the founding President of the DC Childcare Corporation, a unique federal, District government, private public partnership for children and families. DC Agenda is a nonprofit civic organization that brings together diverse groups of leaders to address complex urban problems in Washington, DC, using collaboration, convening, information and capacity building tools and processes to achieve community change for children, youth and families in underserved neighbor neighborhoods.

Carrie is also privileged to serve as chairman of the Henson Ridge Steering Committee which along with the residents of former Frederick Douglas/Stanton Dwellings and the Housing Authority, provides policy guidance to a $92 million Hope 6 development of a new mixed income community in southeast Washington, DC.

Carrie is a graduate of the District of Columbia Teacher's College, a predecessor institution of the University of the District of Columbia. She is a life long learner and an avid civic activist. She considers community building her profession and life mission. She is a successful leader of people to higher calling and solid manager of human and fiscal capital.

From 1987 to 1995, Carrie was President of the Committee on Strategies to Reduce Chronic Poverty, and Project Manager for DC Kids Count Collaborative from 1993 to 1995. Prior, Ms. Thornhill was Deputy Director of Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, Inc. catalyzing and implementing people, economic and housing development programs for seven years. Other community action positions include: Acting Director, Response to Educational Needs Project in Anacostia, 1975-1977; and Coordinator of police and youth community relations and school desegregation programs for the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1969-1973. From 1982 to 1993 she served as a member of the Board of Zoning Adjustment for the District of Columbia - ten of those years as Chairman processing over 1200 cases involving a wide variety of building and construction projects. These including single family housing and housing developments; commercial and retail, large and small, community based facilities; child care programs, drug treatment facilities, mental retardation and other learning centers.

Carrie Thornhill chairs the Education Committee for the Hillcrest Community Civic Association. She is also Chairman of the Department of Outreach and Budget & Finance at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church. She was formerly Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia, the Eugene and Agrees Meyer Foundation co-chair of the DC Committee on Public Education and member of the Public Charter School School Resource Center. She was a founding member of the National Community Building Network, the Draft Anthony Williams for Mayor Citizens Committee. She is Secretary for the National Civic League, and has served three times as a juror for the All-American Cities Awards which will be held in Washington, DC. June 2003.

Carne Thornhill seeks no political office, perks or recognition for her work. She generally works strategically behind the scenes helping to mentor, coach, inform, and support others to be effective change agents. She is equally a passionate and effective public spokesperson and advocate for children, youth and families.

SELECT RESEARCH PROJECTS COMMISSIONED AND/OR COORDINATED:

Community Education Organizer Handbook, Carrie Thornhill, et al, DC Public Schools, 1975

Opportunity Ladders Partnership Pilot Project: Lessons Learned, Carrie Thornhill et al, Strategies Committee of the Greater Washington Research Center, 1993

Commission on Vocational Education and Career Opportunities: Linking Learning with Earning, Carrie Thomhill, DC Board of Education, 1993

Every Kid Counts in the District of Columbia, Annual Fact Book, 1994 and 1995. Strategies Committee of the Greater Washington Research Center

Creating a Seamless Web of Services for Youth. By Sinead Keegan and Duncan Chaplin, The Urban Institute, February 2002.

Setting the Stage and Exploring the Ideas and Issues: An Overview of Education Reform and Implications for Governance.

Experience of Cities Where School Governance is Working and Implications for the District.

Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations: Debating Solutions.

Striving for Consensus: Deliberations on Governance Issues and Options, prepared by the Georgetown University, Public Policy Institute, December 2000.

District of Columbia Children and Youth Investment Partnership Business Plan. Draft. DC
Agenda. Prepared by the Emerging D.C. Children and Youth Investment Partnership and DC Community Policy Forum, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, April 9.

A Study of the Relative Distributions of Latchkey Children and School Age Care Facilities in the District of Columbia. Feeley, Theresa. Georgetown Public Policy Institute. 1997.

A Strategy Paper: Aligning and Linking Out-of-School Time Programs With the DC Public School's Reform Agenda. Landberg, Erika. For DC Agenda, October 2000.

Formative report on the DC 21st Century Community Learning Center Summer Program, with Zakia Redd. Raphael, Jacqueline and Duncan Chaplin. The Urban Institute, October 2001.

Formative report on the DC 21st Century Community Learning Center After School Program, with Luke Miller and Zakia Redd. Raphael, Jacqueline and Duncan Chaplin. The Urban Institute, July 2001.

The Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative and The Children arid Faith Investment Partnership: A Report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation and DC Agenda. Sylvester, Kathleen and Heather C. McGhee. The Social Policy Action Network, August 2001.

Neighborhood Focus Groups On the Out-of-School-Time Opportunities For Children And Youth. Sponsored By: The South Washington/West of the River Family Strengthening Collaborative and DC Agenda. January 1999.

DC Students Today Global Leaders Tomorrow: Marketing and Outreach, and Engagement Strategy: District of Columbia's School To Career Initiative. By Reingold, Inc. October 30, 2000

January 2003

Board of Education of the District of Columbia Carrie L. Thornhill Confirmation Resolution of 2003 PR 15-0218

SELECT RESEARCH PROJECTS COMMISSIONED AND/OR COORDINATED:

Board of Education of the District of Columbia Carrie L. Thornhill Confirmation Resolution of 2003
PR 15-0218