BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Biographies

Kenneth B. Crooks Jr.
4440 Steam Mill Road Columbus, GA 31907
706-888-2222 kenneth_crooks@hotmail.com

Kenneth Crooks currently serves as Executive Director to One Columbus, a 501(c)(3) not for profit community service agency dedicated to building unity, racial harmony and understanding among the many diverse cultures in the Chattahoochee Valley.

He came to Columbus from a post at Fort Valley State College in 1993 to assume the presidency of the Urban League of Greater Columbus from which position he retired in 2001 after 9 years of distinguished service.

Before working briefly with the Urban League in Broward County, Florida he worked for the National Urban League for over 20 years stationed in Atlanta.. He served under Whitney M. Young, Jr, Vernon Jordan, and Hugh B. Price.

During his Urban League career, he took time off to coordinate Maynard Jackson's first campaign for Mayor of Atlanta.

His early education included elementary school in Hampton, Virginia, and secondary school in Jamaica, West Indies.

He graduated from the University of Massachusetts (BBA), and Atlanta University (MBA).

His current involvement in the Columbus community includes serving on boards at the Medical Center Hospital Authority, the Center for Servant Leadership, the Mayor's Commission On Unity and Diversity, Columbus For Kids, Inc. (Our House) and the Planning Committee of the Chattahoochee Valley Writers Conference. .

He is married to Mary G. Walker, a local real estate broker, and has two grown children, Kenneth Crooks, III, of Atlanta, and Shelly Crooks Michael of Douglasville, Georgia.