The Dayton International Peace Museum today announced that its Board of Trustees has appointed Jerry Leggett as Executive Director effective immediately. Leggett has an extensive background in non-profit management and strategic planning in addition to fund-raising, digital communication, volunteer management, and professional mediation and music. Dr. William P. Shaw, president of the Board of Trustees, says that “as the Museum turns a new page in its 10-year history, we are very fortunate to have Jerry Leggett as our new Executive Director. Hiring a full-time professional director is a bold step forward in the life of the Dayton International Peace Museum. Jerry brings fresh energy and a long-standing passion for peace to the Museum. We welcome old and new friends to the museum and to meet Jerry Leggett, as we work to expand the impact of the Museum beyond Dayton, across the country and the world.” For most of his career, Leggett has woven music and the arts with professional work that serves vulnerable populations. With an undergraduate degree in communications and a M.Div. focusing on coursework in human behavior and the psychology of Carl Jung, Leggett says he believes in “the amazing capacity imbedded in humans to help make good things happen.” From 2011-2014, Leggett was employed by Child and Family Service on Hawaii Island as a Mental Health professional and Program Director for its Crisis Mobile Outreach program. Previously, he worked as the Director of the Stone Soup Café, a nonprofit downtown community center in Fairbanks, Alaska. Jerry Leggett is perhaps best known nationally as a Community Organizer and Peace Troubadour. In 2007–2008, he organized a 250-stop national music tour to inspire a culture of peace and conducted more than 7,000 video interviews in diverse cultural and economic settings, asking the question, “What does a more peaceful world look like for you?”
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:38:41 +0000
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