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Kecia Lopes, MPA, MSW

Executive director
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Kecia Lopes has spent her life in service to both her community and faith. She has served in various leadership roles in community organizations and churches. After 13 years in the banking industry, she changed her career path in 2006 and has devoted herself to the helping profession ever since. As a part-time Human Resource Development (HRD) Instructor at Johnston Community College, Kecia understands the need for individuals to develop their abilities, skills, and knowledge in preparation for entering the workforce.

Kecia holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Simmons College, School of Social Work, and a 2nd Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. She is a Licensed Minister and Social Worker. She has provided leadership services in several community organizations and served in local community churches.

Kecia has worked in the Department of Youth Services, where she provided trained youth to prepare them to enter the workforce. She was also a committed volunteer in the Teen Challenge Prison Ministry for both men and women. She journeyed on a mission trip to Rwanda, where she was part of a team that coordinated the digging of water wells in areas previously without clean water sources.

Among colleagues and program participants, Kecia is known for having an excellent ability to teach and explain complex ideas and principles that are easy to understand. She displays a strength of character, dedication to her community, generosity in giving, loving guidance, patience in listening, and an exceptional depth of faith in God.



Kecia’s dynamic attraction is attributed to her abundant level of patience with those who are in need of tools to be successful in society. She offers what she has learned willingly, patiently, and most importantly, professionally. Whether working with high-level executives, government or public officials, residents in homeless shelters, incarcerated men and women, youth and teens, school systems, or places of ministry, her high regard for the “individual” is unwavering. Kecia’s desire for individuals to function well in the confines of society and challenging environments is exemplary. She exhibits great humility and is known to be a role model in the city in which she lives and a magnetic mentor regionally.