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June 14, 2021Leeann Nabors joined the Board of Directors of Crossroads in 2020. This spring Leeann worked on the Walking Home fundraiser. She was one of two committee members who hiked with Sister Terry more than fifteen miles from the California Institution for Women to the Harvard House, in solidarity with the women of Crossroads. Leeann has been on a remarkable personal journey which has brought her to this moment. In 2011 Leeann was a client of Crossroads. This month Leeann graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.
Leeann began her college career in distant learning classes, then attended two different community colleges, and matriculated from Pitzer College this spring. While at Pitzer she joined the Office of Consortial Academic Collaboration and helped facilitate a variety of different programs including the Justice Education Initiative which launched a Bachelor of Arts program in Norco at the men’s prison. For the last ten years she has also worked as the office manager of the Clinebell Institute in Claremont which provides spiritually integrated psychological services. Her most memorable experience during her undergraduate studies was to travel to Nepal for a ten-day study tour. Leeann greatly appreciates the opportunity she was given to step outside of her own experience and culture and to see the world from a different perspective. She hopes to build upon all that she has learned so far by studying for a Master of Arts degree in Social Work and continuing to work on behalf of the women of Crossroads.
In addition to her tenacity and clear thinking, kindness and courage, Leeann has a notable voice. There is a lightness in the tone which draws the listener in, and there is curiosity in her voice which holds the listener in place. There is no doubt that Leeann will continue to use her voice for the benefit of others and when she speaks, if the world is wise, it will listen.