Meet Ashley E. Jones, a Junior League of Charlotte, Inc (JLC) Transfer Advisor. She is a speech language pathologist by profession and has a second job where she contracts independently for Kannapolis city schools. Ms. Jones also has her own business where she helps others with date planning and other small events. She is active in her church, serving as…
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Member Monday- Aimee Greeter
Meet Aimee Greeter, a Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) Sustainer and Senior Vice President at Coker Group. Her mother role-modeled the idea that with hard work and a spirit of unceasing determination, Aimee could take on the world. She also helped foster a love for cold pizza for breakfast and drinking Crystal Lite lemonade. Ms. Greeter is author to…
We Built This City: The JLC Continues to Lead
By Maeghan Beahm Over the past 20 weeks, we have highlighted influential women who credit much of their success to the training and development they received as active members of the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC). For more than 90 years, the JLC has played a critical role in the foundation of the Charlotte community through it greatest asset…
We Built This City: Sally Robinson and The Levine Museum of the New South
By: Emily Holdorf When one thinks about the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC), it is often synonymous with words like community, history, and influential women. That sense of fellowship is what drew Sally Robinson to the JLC in 1958. Over the course of her League career, Sally served in a number of leadership roles, including Treasurer, Nominating Committee Chair,…
We Built This City: Trish Hobson and the Relatives
By Gatesy Hill There is a familiar Nigerian proverb that suggests, “It take a village to raise a child.” For some children in our city, their immediate surroundings can unravel, leaving them without a center. This is where Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) past President and sustaining member Trish Hobson and her incredible team at Charlotte’s non-profit, The Relatives,…
We Built This City: Dolly Tate and the Council for Children’s Rights
By Amelia Lowe Dolly Tate, along with the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC); the United Way; and the League of Women Voters, founded the Council for Children in 1979 to provide an independent voice to protect the best interests of children.1 Tate, who died in 1991, was a nationally known child advocate who organized TAPS (Teenage Parent Services) and…
We Built This City: Carrie Cook & EmpowHERment
By Jenifer Spencer On her journey of empowerment and her mission to amplify women and their stories, Carrie Cook has built a career supporting the women around her, while building one of Charlotte’s most impressive resumes. Carrie previously worked for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, as the VP of Talent Development and Economic Growth. While at the Chamber, she helped…
We Built This City: Deborah Harris
By Olivia Hubert Charlotte is home to many artists and patrons who love the arts. Almost thirty years ago Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) Sustainer Deborah Harris helped build the Queen City by spearheading the creation of one of Charlotte’s most popular performing arts venues — the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. She went on to become the Founding Chairman,…
#TransferThursday – Amélie Verma
My family and I moved to Charlotte from northern New Jersey in the fall of 2018 in what was a whirlwind of a few months. I had my third child in July, had just stepped into a new role at a bank in New Jersey, and I was on the Board of the Junior League of Bergen County (JLBC) as…
We Built This City: Becky Carney
By Ty Chandler Sitting at her desk at the Legislative Building in Raleigh, State Representative Becky Carney just stopped. Not by choice. Quit isn’t a word in Carney’s vocabulary. But her body had quit on her. She had suffered cardiac death. For some the story would end there, but for Rep. Carney this was just one of many life challenges…