Youth Leadership

While we’re wondering who may become the next leader of the free world in 2016, tomorrow’s leaders are being groomed today here in Collier County for business and community leadership roles.

Youth Leadership Collier is inviting a select group of next year’s high school seniors to spend a week engaged in an intensive experience focused on goal setting, decision-making, and team building, all while learning from today’s leaders. Youth Leadership Collier is a program of the Leadership Collier Foundation, an affiliate of the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce.

Thirty-three students have been selected to participate in this summer’s program: Lindsay Asher, Barron Collier High School, Emily Black, Naples High School, Chad Boole, Gulf Coast High School, Olivia Camp, Palmetto Ridge High School, Areesa Chaudhry, Lely High School, Thomas Costain, St. John Neumann High School, Kristina Cuello, Community School of Naples, Jordan Davenport, Gulf Coast High School, Oscar Diaz, Golden Gate High School, Sierra Dungan, Everglades City School, Benjamin Foster, Barron Collier High School, John Fox, Lorenzo Walker Technical High School, Zach Friedman, Community School of Naples, Jake Goguen, Barron Collier High School, Eliana Gomez, Immokalee High School, George Hackett III, St. John Neumann High School, Skylar Hart, Palmetto Ridge High School, Haley Havemeier, Marco Island Academy, Jacob LaRochelle, Barron Collier High School, Rachael Lyberg, Golden Gate High School, Patricia Morejon, Naples High School, Maggie Moxam, Lorenzo Walker Technical High School, Benjamin Nguyen, Golden Gate High School, Sydney Parker, Community School of Naples, Kaitlin Price, Naples High School, Aynsley Rasmussen, Barron Collier High School, Annisa Setiawan, Naples High School, Frank Spinelli, Community School of Naples, Elizabeth Ullrich, St. John Neumann High School, Natalia Vargas, Palmetto Ridge High School, Christina Veintimilla, Naples High School, Lauren Wright, Community School of Naples, and Kaitlyn Ziegelmaier, Lely High School.

Look for 2016 application forms in November. Visit www.napleschamber.org.