Cobb Youth Leadership submitted the following news release announcing its 2024-2025 class:
Cobb Youth Leadership (CYL), a development program for high school juniors, sponsored by the Leadership Cobb Alumni Association and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has announced the members of its 2024-2025 class.
The following individuals have been selected:
| Sylvia Anulewicz Campbell High School | Gage Gomez Hillgrove High School | Danielle Moreno Campbell High School |
| Amol Balakrishnan Lassiter High School | Marie Hable Wheeler High School | Henry O’Dell Marietta High School |
| Arvind Balakrishnan Wheeler High School | Sydney Hernandez Marietta High School | Adaku Okeh Hillgrove High School |
| Jenna Bishop Harrison High School | Sophie Hortman Lassiter High School | Michael Opoku-Mensah The Walker School |
| Gabby Brooken Mount Paran Christian School | Livie Hunter Marietta High School | Jennifer Owolabi McEachern High School |
| Jack Burckhalter The Walker School | Claire Jordan Harrison High School | Sean Patrick Campbell High School |
| JT Carmichael Whitefield Academy | Anna Beth Kelley Marietta High School | Lila Rathbone Campbell High School |
| Austin Carter Kennesaw Mountain High School | LK LaMonica Allatoona High School | Caroline Rodriguez Marietta High School |
| Amanda Chamberlain Allatoona High School | Reagan Lantta Campbell High School | Andy Rossitch The Walker School |
| Makayla Crumby Marietta High School | Kennedy Lawton Kennesaw Mountain High School | John Rutledge Harrison High School |
| Nehemiah Cupid Woodward Academy | Audrey Jane Leftwich North Cobb Christian School | Austin Smith Mount Paran Christian School |
| Winston DeHaan The Howard School | Thomas Linton Pope High School | Brody Tanner Johnson Ferry Christian Adcemy |
| Anya Dhir Walton High School | Madison Lockhart Pope High School | Gabby Thomas Dominion Christian School |
| Parker Douglas The Walker School | Ross Madrerohon Marietta High School | Catherine Timko Marietta High School |
| Dylan Fallin Etowah High School | Callie McInturff Pebblebrook High School | Leo Waldron Walton High School |
| Walker Fennel Harrison High School | Lillian Memark Harrison High School | Ellie Wasserman Pebblebrook High School |
| Lila Fraley Wheeler High School | Payton Milligan Harrison High School | Vivian Watson Mount Paran Christian School |
| Elaina Gehlbach Marietta High School | Sameel Mistri Wheeler High School | Kathryn Weeks Marietta High School |
Created in 1989, the program provides students a unique opportunity to learn about their community, develop leadership skills, as well as meet and interact with students from other high schools. Students attending public or private high schools or home-school students must complete and submit an application for CYL in the spring of their sophomore year. Students participate in the program during their junior year of high school.
Allan Bishop, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Julie Peck, Hub International, will be Co-Chairs for the 2024-2025 program year. Tripp Boyer, Boyer Ramey Wealth Management, and Luci Hogue, Scotland Wright Associates, will be the Vice Co-Chairs for the 2024-2025 program year. The 2024-2025 class theme is “Connected in Leadership.”
Thank you to Yearlong Presenting Sponsor, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Youth Champion Sponsor, Six Flags Over Georgia. For more information about Cobb Youth Leadership, contact Katie Guice at (770) 859-2334 or kguice@cobbchamber.org.
