Dr. Lori Myles is a community servant with over 28 years of experience as an educator, community advocate, and fundraiser. She has implemented many awareness programs for inner city youth and underprivileged women. She is the wife to Pastor Kerwin Myles and mother to two daughters, Kelora (Reginald) Cofer and Chareva Myles, a collegiate cheerleader. A graduate of Paine College and Georgia Southern University, Lori has excelled in the academic arena. Her credentials include a Bachelor’s degree in English from Paine College and a Doctorate in Administration, Leadership and Supervision from Georgia Southern with her dissertational study being “The Attendance Policies of Georgia Middle Schools since the enactment of the NCLB Act.” Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa has also retrieved this dissertation to evaluate its possible impact on national education programming while he serves on the Education Committee in Washington, D.C.

 

As an educator, Lori has served at Thomas Walter Josey High School and Lucy C. Craft Laney High School. She has molded the minds of tomorrow’s youth as both a vocational instructor and an English instructor. Dr. Myles successfully implemented he Teacher Cadet program that allowed high school students to gain valuable teaching experience in elementary schools that sparked students’ drive and helped to propel them into their collegiate and professional careers. In her time as a secondary instructor, Lori spent twenty years teaching her students life skills such as budgeting, resume writing, and interview skills. She spent much of her time helping these students find jobs and, more importantly, keep jobs, a valuable skill in today’s fragile economy. Dr. Myles also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Aiken Technical College where she has trained city leaders, executives, and their employees in administrative motivational techniques in such subject areas as strategic planning, teamwork leadership, and supervision and effective management procedures. Her ability to teach, on every level, an array of leadership and job skills is an invaluable tool that can be utilized to reduce our city’s unemployment rate.