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Meet the President / CEO
Kyle Wedberg
President & Chief Executive Officer
Kyle has a professional career that has focused on education and public service. After college, Kyle volunteered for a year through the Americorps program City Year as a teacher’s aide at the James W. Hennigan School in Boston. Kyle then completed a public affairs fellowship through the Coro Foundation Midwestern Center in St. Louis, MO. After graduate school, Kyle took a position with the Office of Budget and Management for the City of Chicago where he had the opportunity to oversee the public safety budgets for the second largest police and fire departments in the country. In 2002 he was recruited to work for the School District of Philadelphia where he served as Deputy Chief Financial Officer. Kyle then returned to City Year to help lead new site development and the start of City Year Louisiana (where he fell in love with New Orleans) and City Year Los Angeles. In 2007, Kyle took a leadership role with the Recovery School District where he served as Chief Administrative Officer. While working at the RSD, Kyle visited and was amazed by NOCCA-the performing and creative arts high school for the State of Louisiana- where he now has the privilege to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kyle is married to Michelle; in his spare time enjoys the arts, sights, sports, and food of New Orleans and Louisiana; and proudly serves on the City Year Louisiana Advisory Board, Music National Service-Musicians Corps New Orleans Advisory Board, and the Bywater Neighborhood Association Board. Kyle has a BA from St. Olaf College and a MPA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
