Anne Williams Isom Case Study

Anne Williams-Isom is the current Chief Executive Officer for the Harlem Children’s Zone, before she served in this position, she spent five years as HCZ’s Chief Operating Officer. As COO, she oversaw all programs in HCZ’s cradle-through-college pipeline, under her leadership, she was able to improve the organization and add new ideas to help programs move forward into better ways of learning and having fun outside their classroom. In 1991, HCZ opened its first Beacon school, a year-round after-school center where young people between the ages of five and 21 and their families could access educational, recreational, and youth-development programs. Beacon schools are based on the belief that if children are to find effective alternatives