Meet Our New Executive Director, Darlene Trigg

Darlene M. Trigg is widely recognized for her exceptional management, development, programmatic and analytical skills, which have been utilized to provide administration and consulting services to diverse industries and markets throughout the country. 

Ms. Trigg has been a nonprofit executive for 15 years.  She performed extensive philanthropic work in the kindergarten through 12 (K-12) space and worked to serve youth aging out of foster care in their quest to obtain post-secondary education.  Ms. Trigg was a senior marketing manager for a credit card company, served as an executive on loan to a national nonprofit, and was an investment banker.  Her work as a systems engineer with IBM started her career. 

An Oakland, CA native, Ms. Trigg earned a B.S. from the University of San Francisco in Organizational Behavior and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management in Finance/Accounting.   She is a Charter member with the Greater Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated—she recently tenured out, Chairman of the School Governance Council of Roswell High School, a trustee of the Hopeful and Honest Initiative on Race and Understanding, a member of Skyland Trail, Rex Fuqua Campus Adolescent Advisory Council and is a North Point Community Church member.  Trigg and her husband reside in Roswell, Georgia. Her daughter attends Georgia Southern University, and her son attends the University of Mississippi.