Cheryl Hudec Pekar
Executive Director
Family: spouse, Matt Pekar and three children, Jace, Emmalyn, and Kaiden
Education:
BS, Sociology, Sam Houston State University
MA, Sociology, Sam Houston State University
Career Summary: associate director of the Center for Rural Studies, Sam Houston State University, providing community development services, focused on community-based planning model for convening stakeholders around interests and issues and moving them to action, consultant grant writer for the University of Houston-Victoria and helped secure a federal grant to establish their Regional Community and Economic Development Center, executive director of Pioneers Youth Leadership, Inc. with a mission of encouraging and inspiring young leaders to be next “change agents” for rural Texas
Foundation Involvement: 2005 Joseph and Victor Stanzel Memorial Scholarship Recipient, foundation program manager, Parents as Teachers advisory board
Hobbies: quilting, working outdoors, relaxing with family
Community Service:
Education:
BS, Sociology, Sam Houston State University
MA, Sociology, Sam Houston State University
Career Summary: associate director of the Center for Rural Studies, Sam Houston State University, providing community development services, focused on community-based planning model for convening stakeholders around interests and issues and moving them to action, consultant grant writer for the University of Houston-Victoria and helped secure a federal grant to establish their Regional Community and Economic Development Center, executive director of Pioneers Youth Leadership, Inc. with a mission of encouraging and inspiring young leaders to be next “change agents” for rural Texas
Foundation Involvement: 2005 Joseph and Victor Stanzel Memorial Scholarship Recipient, foundation program manager, Parents as Teachers advisory board
Hobbies: quilting, working outdoors, relaxing with family
Community Service:
- volunteer, Parents as Teachers
- volunteer/support local schools and organizations
- Board of Directors, Fayette Community Foundation
- Advisory Board, Red Door Fund
- Member, Greater Colorado Valley Health and Wellness Council
