Ignite!
Purpose & Intention
Celebrating early childhood education across our community!
Thank you to PNC for generously supporting the 2025 Ignite! Awards and Ignite! Early Childhood Education Conference. Their commitment to early childhood education inspires great futures for children.
Honoring Our Early Childhood Champions
The annual awards ceremony honors our community’s early childhood educators and legislative champions, highlights their important work, and encourages community engagement in early childhood education. For questions, please contact Elandriel Lewis at elandriel.lewis@unitedwaygn.org.
2025 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Ghislaine Kinzounza
Glen Leven Presbyterian
Church Day School
Jacob Pursell
Susan Gray School
2025 AWARD FINALISTS
Early Educator of the Year Finalists
Erica Schwankhart
Micah Children’s Academy
Jasica Vestal
Equally Created
Beginning Beacon Early Educator Finalists
Madeline Justice
Little Wonders Early
Learning Center-STEM Prep
Wendy Guadarama-Serrano
King’s Daughters Child
Development Center
Thanks to Our Award Sponsors
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UPCOMING OPPORTUNTIES TO SUPPORT EARLY EDUCATION
We welcome volunteers for Read, Baby Read!



