Recipient Information
Location
Auburn, Alabama
Year of Award
2022
Grant or Fellowship
Leaders of Color Fellowship
Grant Amount
$0
Jerald Crook
Founder & Executive Director, High Ground Society
Jerald hails from Bay Minette, Alabama. He attended Auburn University where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a minor in Sustainability. He began his professional career working in public and academic libraries before joining the Alabama Bicentennial Commission staff as community relations specialist. There he served as liaison between the commission, local and state organizations, and bicentennial community committees. As of May 2019 he holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and he Jerald currently serves as grants and communications manager for the Georgia Humanities Council. In 2013, Jerald founded High Ground Society, (then Young Man Visions, Old Man Dreams) with a desire to get the people around him excited about the things he was passionate about: the arts, the humanities, and social and environmental justice. Through his work with Higher Ground Society he hopes to be a part of meaningful, positive change in Alabama’s social and cultural landscape by building inclusive, sustainable communities steeped in love and appreciation for the arts and humanities.