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Leonora Williamson runs the Normal Park Education Fund, a parent-led fund which raises approximately $300,000 a year to support the school’s educational programs. Leonora’s previous work experience includes investment banking for J.P. Morgan in New York and Santiago, Chile, management consulting for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, New York, London and Mexico City and marketing and sales for MAC Cosmetics, a division of Estee Lauder. Immediately prior to joining Normal Park, she founded a Portland, Maine-based marketing consulting firm called the Checkley Group.

Leonora currently serves on the boards of the Creative Discovery Museum and the Trust for Public Land’s Chattanooga chapter. Previously, she served on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine and the Maine Humanities Council. Leonora has a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from Princeton University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School. A citizen of the U.S. and Italy, she has lived the U.S., the U.K., France, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Mexico and Chile, and speaks French, German, Russian and Spanish. She and her husband Frank live in North Chattanooga – right between the two Normal Park campuses - with their two baby daughters, Louise and Annie.