Stanley Kinard
Revson Fellow 2000-2001
Executive Director and Founder
Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Project, Inc.
Stanley Kinard is the Executive Director and Founder of Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Project, Inc., where he has served since 1986. Mr. Kinard is a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Tilden High School in Brooklyn. He received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.
For more than two decades, Mr. Kinard has developed and implemented strategies and programs for educating youth and adults throughout central Brooklyn. From 1981-1986, he was the founding director of Brownsville Heritage House, and conducted cultural enrichment programs throughout the community.
Having identified culture and education as keys to community empowerment, Mr. Kinard founded the Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Project, Inc. in 1986 with the primary mission of promoting cultural literacy through culturally specific activities, projects, materials, and services.
Since the Woodson Project’s inception, thousands of Brooklyn youth and families have benefited from its services, which are offered at three public schools.
Currently, Mr. Kinard has also been working to establish a New Visions supported public school in central Brooklyn. The school, which will utilize art, culture, and community development to teach basic core curriculum skills, will open in the 2000-2001 school year. It is Mr. Kinard’s goal to develop a strategic plan for educational reform for the African American community.
While a Revson Fellow, Mr. Kinard plans to pursue development through research and studies in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, and the Center for Social Sciences.
(The Revson Fellow’s biography that appears above was last updated in 2000. Revson Fellows may update their biographies on this site by sending email to: revson@columbia.edu)
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