To the Literacy Together Community,
We are excited to let you know about our new Executive Director at Literacy Together.
Cindy Threlkeld retired on June 30. She leaves Literacy Together an expanded organization through her experience, and she guided us through the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. We wish her all the best in her retirement.
After an extensive search, Literacy Together is pleased to announce the selection of its new Executive Director, Amanda Wrublewski. Amanda is a Western North Carolina native. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia when she powerfully connected with the importance of literacy and the inequity of access. Amanda was most recently the Vice President of Programs at Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC, coordinating an 18-county region. Before that, she was the Program Supervisor at Swannanoa Correctional Facility, developing service plans to support and connect incarcerated women with needed assistance. Amanda says:
As Executive Director, I commit to deeply understanding and evaluating our community’s many barriers to literacy. I will dedicate myself to working alongside the Literacy Together team to dismantle those barriers. It will be an honor to learn from a team of experts already doing this work so well while offering my perspective and guidance.
We look forward to the next chapter of Literacy Together's work in Buncombe County!
