Aliegha Kemp is a native of Burke County, Georgia. As far back as she can remember, she has had a passion to serve and make waves in her community. Over the years, she has developed a deep-rooted and vested interest in youth development. She has worked within the Richmond County School System, administered Youth Leadership Augusta via the Chamber of Commerce and continues to serve on Advisory Committees for several local organizations. Professionally, she brings extensive experience in organizational development from her tenure as Project Manager for the Richmond County Tax Commissioner’s Office and as a local Real Estate Agent. She is committed to youth advocacy and aims to make an impact on the world around her through the development of our youth.

President & CEO, Kim Evans, joined the Boys & Girls Clubs movement in 2008 as CFO following a distinguished accounting and finance career. The expertise she forged in these diverse and competitive environments fueled BGC’s rapid, successful expansion, tripling the number of Clubs in the local network and reaching record numbers of youth in need with outstanding results.

Since 2014, Mrs. Evans has served as CEO for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta. In response to the academic achievements and other demonstrated outcomes of BGC youth, Georgia Lt. Governor Casey Cagle appointed Mrs. Evans to the Education Turnaround Advisory Council in 2017 to support the State Board of Education in efforts to assist school systems in turning around perennially low performing schools. That same year, Mrs. Evans was one of only 60 Boys & Girls Clubs CEOs nationwide selected to complete Harvard Business School’s Executive Leadership Summit, a collaborative educational experience designed to drive transformational impact nationally and locally through the development of executive leadership capabilities. In 2019, President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), Jim Clark, invited Mrs. Evans to join the President’s [of Boys & Girls Clubs of America] Advisory Committee. Her planning and leadership have established BGC not only as a model of youth development program delivery but also as a model of transparent stewardship for donor gifts and investments in our youth. Mrs. Evans also serves on the Government Relations Committee for Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and the Boards of Directors for the GA Alliance for Boys & Girls Clubs, Doctors Hospital, Leadership Augusta, and the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce in Augusta, GA. Mrs. Evans also served as the Chairperson for Leadership Augusta, Class of 2022.

Originally from Pawleys Island, South Carolina, Kim holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Clemson University. She lives in Evans, Georgia with her husband Mordecai, and her two sons, Jacob and Jared.

An entrepreneur at heart, Wayne Millar immigrated to America over 30 years ago from South Africa. He graduated with a BS from Rhodes University and a Bachelors of Commerce with Honors from the University of Witwatersrand. Since then, he has been married to his beloved wife for 28 years, is a father to 8 children, and has a diverse development portfolio of thriving golf and amenity centered real estate projects throughout the United States and Europe. Moving from New York City to Georgia, Wayne has been a resident of Augusta for over 20 years.

In the summer of 2020, as America struggled through disruption in the urban markets and Wayne witnessed it in his backyard, he reached out to a school boy friend who was involved in Elevate Orlando to better understand possible solutions for the turmoil around him. 58 out of the 59 schools in the Richmond County School System are title one schools. Wayne’s heart, hope, and vision is to empower, equip, and help school age going children living in challenging conditions to engage, thrive, and contribute to their community.

Dr.Ngoh was born in Cameroon , West Africa. He has been serving the dental needs of patients in the greater Augusta area, and in other pockets of the world through his mission outreach, for over 25 years. As the founder of Augusta Endodontic Center, he feels blessed by the opportunity to care for the Endodontic needs of patients in the greater Augusta area.

“This country and especially this community has been extremely good to me. I came here with nothing but a suitcase. I have been rewarded with an opportunity to realize my dreams. Some of these kids remind me of myself. I thank God for the opportunities that I had to be somebody.” Manny Ngoh has a passion for seeing underserved and under-resourced children afforded an opportunity to succeed.  

Dr Ngoh is married to Catherine, his high school sweetheart and they both have three boys and a girl. 

Charitable Events and Community Involvement include several medical mission trips to Africa, Central and South America, Community Food Drive for Golden Harvest, Endowed Dental Hygiene Scholarships, scholarships to Dental Assistant students at Augusta Technical College, and raised over half a million dollars for Christ Community Health Services Dental Clinic and Heritage Academy of Augusta (an independent inner city school).

Amanda-Leigh was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BAS in architecture and a MAS in Painting from Brigham Young University. She currently serves as the President and Executive Director of the Gary and Vivienne Player Foundation. 

 Amanda has had the opportunity to work in many different fields and in various capacities. She has worked in the architectural field,  as a certified tennis coach, art director, freelance artist, and for multiple nonprofit organizations. Her passion has always been to help others. Between growing up with a family committed to giving back and serving as a Spanish-speaking missionary in her youth, Amanda-Leigh has a deep desire to always be engaged in hands-on opportunities to lift and love others, especially youth.   Her most treasured role is that of wife, mother, and now grandmother.

Steven Brian Kendrick was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia and was educated in the Richmond County Public School System. He received a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, as well as an MBA from FAMU. He was Richmond County (Augusta) Tax Commissioner for 13 years and is currently serving in the Chief Deputy role in the office. He is also a licensed broker, agent and real estate instructor.He also provides leadership development training and programs to non-profits and government agencies through his consulting firm, ABM Business Solutions, LLC.

 Mr. Kendrick has a keen interest in economic, leadership and community development as indicated by his involvement as Chairman of the Augusta Economic Development Authority (AEDA), Chairman Emeritus of the Augusta, and Georgia Land Bank Authority (AGLBA).  As a founding board member of the HUB Collaborative, he was able to help lead the effort to create and fund the two 24M+ community centered buildings on the HUB Augusta Campus.  Steven demonstrates his commitment to youth leadership through programs like Project Impact and Youth Leadership Augusta.

Father of 4 amazing daughters and work as the Outreach Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Augusta where I have ministered for 20 years. After Graduating college from Georgia College and State University, I moved to Augusta to work for Campus Outreach for the next 13 years. I served as the Local resource director and then as the Global resource director for Campus Outreach. While I was working for Campus Outreach God was growing my ministry in the local neighborhood where we started Hope For Augusta to minister to urban kids, City Hope Alliance where we provided housing and city-wide initiatives for a greater Augusta. In 2017, I became the local outreach pastor where I oversee 6 ministries including, Campus Outreach, Medical Campus Outreach, Vision Pathways, Shalom Project, Hope for Augusta, City Hope Alliance and International Link. Elevate Augusta meets a need that we have seen in our city for awhile to provide mentorships to high-school students to help them unleash the enormous potential that is stored within them.

Tim is from Lake Butler, Florida and is married to Teri Tabb McGill of Thomaston, Georgia for 42 years. They have three children and three grandchildren. Tim has BA in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University and an MBA from Georgia College and State University.

Tim retired from Georgia Power after 36 years of service. For his last 15 years, he served as External Manager for Georgia Power in Augusta. Tim’s primary role was to provide community support, education, communication, and leadership for Georgia Power. He has served with many organizations over the years including Columbia County Chamber and Development Authority, Red Cross, Red Carpet Tour, RISE Augusta, Savannah Water Council, CSRA Alliance for Fort Gordon, Kiwanis Club, Young Life and many more.