LEAD Celebrates 10 Years of Mentoring Forsyth County Middle School Girls

Forsyth Family Magazine featured LEAD on the cover of its March 1, 2026 issue in a package that chronicles a decade of work by LEAD, the locally founded nonprofit Learning Everyday Accomplishing Dreams focused on mentoring, leadership and enrichment for middle-school girls. The magazine and the organization use the LEAD Girls brand to spotlight a 10-year anniversary of school-based programs and community workshops across Forsyth County.

Forsyth Family Magazine’s Instagram account posted, "We're excited to share that LEAD Girls is featured on the cover of @forsythmags this March in celebration of 10 years of LEADing change for" which mirrors the print feature celebrating the organization’s milestone. LEAD’s materials highlight student branches in high schools in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools and list program components that include a set of workshop facilitators described on LEAD pages.

LEAD’s published bios and program excerpts name local leaders connected to the effort. One profile lists Kenyetta Richmond with a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on Mass Communications from Winston-Salem State University, a Master of Science in Adult Education with a focus on Higher Education from North Carolina A&T, and a Master of Science in Higher Education and Student Success from Walden University. Richmond is identified as executive director of Holistic Success Services at Forsyth Technical Community College, works part-time as a Relationship Violence Responder at Wake Forest University, and is pursuing a Doctor of Education in Community College Leadership at Walden University. The bio notes she "spent ten years at Family Services, the leading domestic violence organization."

Program facilitator listings name Katina Little, NP, as one of the "6 Workshop Facilitators." Little is described as a certified pediatric nurse practitioner specializing in primary care, founder and owner of Purposeful Pediatrics PLLC, and the wife of Captain Dwayne R. Little of the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. Her education is listed as a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Hampton University, earned in 2002, and a Master’s in Nursing with a focus on Pediatrics from Duke University, received in 2008. The profile records that her career as a nurse practitioner began in 2008 at Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Greensboro.

A separate biographical fragment identifies a program participant or volunteer named Stacey, who is described as a Senior Loan Interviewer at Allegacy’s Lending Center who "supports members through the lending process to help improve their lives and access their dreams." The same fragment says Stacey is an active community volunteer with a special affinity for financial education and enjoys time with her daughter and nieces and nephews.

The March magazine feature and LEAD’s program pages together show an organization embedded in local institutions such as Forsyth Technical Community College, Wake Forest University, Allegacy, Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine, and Family Services. After 10 years of mentoring middle-school girls and fostering student branches in Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools, LEAD’s cover spotlight in Forsyth Family Magazine serves as a public recognition of the nonprofit’s local footprint and ties to educators, health professionals and financial counselors across Forsyth County.