The Board of Directors for Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation (UREC) has appointed two Baton Rouge community and business leaders to key board offices.

 

Cathy Denson
Chair
Red River Bank, Assistant Vice President, Commercial Lending

 

 

Girard J. Melancon, Ph.D.
Vice Chair
Executive Director for Adult and Continuing Education, Baton Rouge Community College

 

 

The following Baton Rouge community and business leaders are also members of UREC’s board of directors: Dr. Ronald T. Jackson, CHBC, CEO LEAD Training Resources Group & Joy Corporation/Jubilee Fellowship; Kenyetta Q. Nelson-Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Specialist for Community & Economic Development at Southern University Agricultural Research Center; Linda Clark, Partner, Kean Miller LLP; Toni Myer, Director, Corporate and Continuing Education at Baton Rouge Community College and insurance businessman Jonathan Shaw.

Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation is a nonprofit community development organization that transforms communities by investing in people and restoring neighborhoods.