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The chief of staff to the chancellor and associate vice chancellor of human resources at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri, Kathy Walter-Mack builds upon a long history of senior-level administrative experience and considerable legal training. Kathy Walter-Mack also has a history of community service that includes volunteer work with the children’s educational nonprofit Reach Out and Read.
One of Reach Out and Read’s special, targeted programs is the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Initiative. As a minority group, young people of American Indian and Alaska Native decent have the lowest test scores, high school graduation rates, and college matriculation rates in the United States. The AI/AN Initiative attempts to address these issues by providing Reach Out and Read services to Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities and other US medical clinics that serve native populations.
Reach Out and Read established the AI/AN Initiative in 2007 in partnership with the IHS and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Initiative currently provides children’s books to medical providers at approximately 5,000 program sites nationwide. Medical providers at these sites distribute more than 120,000 books to children and their families on an annual basis.
Kathy Walter-Mack 