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Dr. Pat Price '95, '05 MEd will join us to discuss the life of Ota Benga, the Center for Community Development and Social Justice's Ota Benga Conference, and where the Center's work continues in the City of Lynchburg in 2025.____________________
Pat is a graduate of the University of Lynchburg. She received her BA in English Literature in 1995 and completed her Master of English Education in 2005. She worked at the University for
21 years. She started her career in higher education working in Admissions at U of L in 1995. She moved from admissions to work in the Center for Community Development and Social Justice (CCDSJ) for 14 years and completed her time at LC working in the Multicultural Services Office. It was during her time in the CCDSJ that she honed her skills as a community activist having worked and served in three downtown neighborhoods in Lynchburg. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Neighborhood Outreach Connection in partnership with the Waters at James Crossing, Riverview’s Artspace, the United Way of Central Virginia,
The Salvation Army, Planned Parenthood, the Equity Task Force of Lynchburg City Schools, Live Healthy Lynchburg, CHAP, the College Hill Neighborhood School, Old City Cemetery and other nonprofit organizations in the City. She currently serves on the 5th Street Community Development Corporation, the African American Community Council and the Lynchburg Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union. She is a 31-year member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and serves as the Secretary of the Chapter and a member of the Graduate
Advisory Council which sponsors Omicron Sigma, the undergraduate chapter of AKA at the University of Lynchburg. She works diligently in her church, Greater Brookville Church as the
Director of Ministries.
Pat completed her Doctor of Healthcare Administration at the Virginia University of Lynchburg (VUL) in 2021. She continues her passion for higher education employed at VUL as the Dean
of the G.W. Hayes School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Price was born and reared in Lynchburg, VA. She has two adult children, Briany Price Reid and Kevin J. Price; three grandchildren, Joshua who lives in Fairfax, VA and works in the school of graduate education at his alma mater, George Mason University, Mya, who graduated May 2025 with a degree in Recreational Therapy major from Old Dominion University and Kamira who is a seventh grader at Sandusky Middle School here in Lynchburg. She continues to follow her passion of service to all mankind and in the words of her late Father, she plans to work out not rust out!
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Sydnor Performance Hall, Lynchburg, United States
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