April Cobb
President
April Cobb, M.B.A is a native of Tampa, FL and a April is a 20 year veteran teacher in Hillsborough County Public Schools, where she currently serves 6th grade students at a Title 1, Renaissance, Achievement school. As a highly effective math teacher she understands the importance of connecting with youth and being culturally aware of student needs in order to effectively teach them. Her passion and resilience afforded her with a nomination by her colleagues as the 2019 Teacher of the year and Ida S. Baker of the year. She also was the 2018 Irish 31 Cheers Service Award Recipient for Education, the recipient of the 2018 Black Girls Rock Tampa Bay for Education and recently honored by the Tau Beta Zeta Sorority as the Community Service recipient for 2019.
As a humanitarian and community servant, April advocates and provides life changing seminars and services for youth and women in her community through her nonprofit organization B.E.A.U.T.E Blueprint Foundation Inc. which is an education organization serving youth and women in the Tampa Bay Area. She believes that despite our upbringing, background or community, we all have been blessed with an equal opportunity to seek education and wealth. Her priority is to dismantle systemic barriers that prevent underserved girls from gaining exposure to STEM Career fields and improve their literacy skills by developing opportunities for them to discuss social issues that affect their personal lives, as well as their communities.
In addition to serving as the Vice-President of the Terrace Park Neighborhood Association, she is an active member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. (NCBW), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Inc. (IFAMM & OES), and a variety of other community organizations.
During her Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer Breaks, she spends time traveling on college tours with her all girl stem mentorship program, Blueprint4Girls, hosting personal development and financial literacy seminars, providing social experiences (i.e. the movies, museums, restaurants..) and volunteering at the Centre for Girls and Rays of Hope.
Brenda Kelley
Treasurer
Ms. Kelley has lived in the Terrace Park Community for over 43 years. She held a lengthy career as a nurse and worked for the Veteran’s Administration in Spinal Cord Injury for 35 years before retiring in 2009. She loves the Terrace Park neighborhood and has never entertained the thought of moving. Presently, she works part-time for the VA Research Department.
In her spare time, she loves to cross stitch and enjoys serving at her church. As stated by Brenda “It is my pleasure to be involved with the Terrace Park Neighbor Association and I look forward to helping make this community all that it is destined to be.”