Board of Directors

Our Board

Scott Morchower – President/CEO/Treasurer

 

  • Scott Morchower is the original founder of Achieve Through Education, Inc. . Scott formed the non-profit in 2009 after spending almost 10 years as President of his tutoring company, Academic Coaches, LLC, and prior to that as owner and director of a tutoring franchise, Club Z tutoring.
  • Through tutoring private families, and as a much larger entity under no Child Left Behind as a statewide Provider in Georgia, Florida, and Texas, Scott has facilitated the supplemental education of literally thousands of students grades K-12, college, and adult. Through the funding of No Child Left Behind, every year, several hundred underprivileged students were provided with Free tutoring funded through this federal assistance program. Scott realized that although this was a great supplemental educational program, there were limitations to student access and schools receiving funding for the program. Many families were not provided with adequate access information through their schools, or they didn’t qualify based on the fact that their school didn’t qualify. Along the way, Scott formed the non-profit to reach the students not receiving supplemental educational funding, and also attempting to offer educational services to all ages and for all educational purposes. Adult illiteracy and computer inadequacy can prevent an adult from access to a quality position just as much as a drop out student or a student not meeting the standards of the educational system in Math.
  • Mr. Morchower has a broad multi-industry background in positions of Sales, Sales Management, and General Management/Ownership in Education, Web Conferencing, Nutraceuticals, and Women’s apparel.
  • Scott is a graduate of Marketing from the University of North Texas in Denton Texas.
  • He currently holds an active Real Estate license in Georgia
  • His passions include Non-profits, Cycling, Martial Arts (2nd degree Black Belt Hapkido), Snow skiing, Water skiing, and Classic cars.
  • Scott currently serves as on the Hightower Middle School Foundation as Community Liaison, is a member of the Children’s and Families board with the Cobb Community Collaborative, and as Vice President of the Coventry Green Homeowner association homeowners board

Lisa Morchower – Vice President

Legal Counsel and Community Liaison

 

    • Lisa Steinmetz Morchower is Of Counsel with Berman Fink Van Horn. Lisa’s concentrates her practice in state and local government law, with a particular emphasis in the areas of alcoholic beverage licensing and hospitality law, zoning and land use matters, business licensing, police licensing and permitting, and general litigation. Lisa’s practice includes representation of individuals and business owners regarding alcoholic beverage licensing; business licensing; police power licensing; issues related to special land use permits, variances and special exceptions; permitting (sign permits, certificates of occupancy, building permits, demolitions etc.); text amendments to zoning ordinances and other land use related issues.
    • During her career, Lisa has successfully represented clients before administrative agencies such as city councils, county boards of commissioners, and local government license review boards, zoning review boards, and boards of zoning appeals. She has also represented clients in the Georgia and federal trial courts, in the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and in the U.S. Supreme Court.
    • Prior to joining Berman Fink Van Horn, Lisa was a Senior Assistant City Attorney for the City of Atlanta where she was employed for more than 11 years. In her position with the City, Lisa was responsible for providing legal advice and counsel to high level government officials, including the Mayor, City Council, the Chief of Police, and various city departments regarding alcoholic beverage and general police licensing, land use and various other matters.
    • During her career with the City, Lisa served as chief counsel to the Licenses and Permits Unit of the Atlanta Police Department and the Bureau of Taxicabs and Vehicles for Hire. She also represented the Planning Department, including the Bureau of Buildings and the Zoning Enforcement Division, the Civil Service Board, the Bureau of Cultural Affairs and the Bureau of Sanitary Services. During her employment with the City, Lisa litigated a myriad of lawsuits, including the revocation of the Gold Club’s alcoholic beverage license; lawsuits by Olympic Vendors against the City; challenges to the City’s Alcoholic Beverage Code, Zoning Ordinance, Wrecker Service Code and Vehicles for Hire Ordinance; and cases involving sovereign immunity, wrongful shootings and deaths and employment actions.
    • After graduating from the University of Alabama with a business degree, Ms. Morchower received her law degree from Emory University School of Law and is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association. Admitted to the Florida Bar in 1989 and the Georgia Bar in 1990, she is admitted to practice law before the US Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Georgia Court of Appeals.
    • Lisa enjoys writing and authored an article in the International Municipal Lawyer’s Association Magazine regarding Preemption and Local Government Regulation of the Towing Industry (January, 2000). She also lectured at the Metro City and County Attorneys Seminar on Continuing Legal Education regarding Adult Entertainment Regulations.
    • Active in the Atlanta community, Lisa is Co-Vice President and Member of the Executive Board of the Hightower Trail Middle School Parent Student Teacher Association (PTSA) and Legislative and Advocacy Committee Chairperson for both Hightower Trail Middle PTSA and for Tritt Elementary School Parent Teacher Association, and serves in many volunteer capacities for Pebblebrook High school through the Performing Arts magnet. In addition, Lisa is Legal Counsel of the Atlanta Marcus Jewish Community Center a member of Coventry Green Homeowners Association Social Committee, Life Member of Hadassah National Organization and Member of the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
    • Lisa has lived in Atlanta since 1989.

 

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Allyson Eman – Secretary

Marketing and Events

 

  • Allyson Eman has over 20 years of marketing, sales and communications experience. In 2007, Allyson took on the role of Executive Director for the newly created Venture Atlanta annual conference. Allyson has worked with key business leaders from Metro Atlanta Chamber, Atlanta CEO Council and Technology Association of Georgia to build the premier venture capital conference in Georgia. The conference is now in its sixth year. Prior to joining Venture Atlanta, Allyson was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for SouthStar Funding, a wholesale mortgage lender headquartered in Atlanta. During her 9 year tenure with the firm, she helped the company grow from 8 employees to 800 with 30 nationwide offices.  SouthStar Funding grew to be one of the most reputable, respected and trusted wholesale mortgage lenders in the country under Allyson’s leadership. SouthStar received many accolades including A+ Employer, Fastest Growing Privately Held Company in Georgia and was included on Inc. 500’s list of fastest growing privately held companies. Prior to joining SouthStar, Allyson worked for SouthTrust Bank as a branch marketing manager overseeing the marketing platform for 100 branches across Georgia.
  • 2012 – 2013 and 2013 – 2014 Hightower Trail Foundation Secretary; Husky Hut Volunteer 2012 and 2013, Mountain View PTA Co-Chair for the Teacher Appreciation Committee – 2007 – 2008, Executive Board member of the Mountain View Foundation 2007 – 2008
  • Allyson received a BS from the University of Florida and resides in Marietta with her husband and two children.

Jennifer Levitt – Vice President

Community Relations

 

  • Jennifer Levitt is currently a freelance artist who is passionate about developing and funding innovative educational programs which prepare all students for success.
  • Her belief that access to educational resources coupled with a warm, supportive environment positively impacts student achievement was developed during Jennifer’s years as a teacher. As the Middle School Art Chair and Academic Advisor at The Epstein School in Sandy Springs, Georgia, she taught classes which focused on developing strong academic, problem solving, and social skills. In addition to teaching in a private school setting, Jennifer has also worked as an art teacher in the Pattonville public school district in St. Ann, Missouri. During that time, Jennifer participated in an at-risk student mentoring program. She applied for and was awarded three grants to develop programs which allowed for an artist-in-residence program and provided teacher training in technology.
  • Because Jennifer believes that all students deserve equal access to enrichment programs, she also served as the PTA Arts in Education Committee Chair at Mountain View Elementary School in Marietta, GA. During her tenure, she developed and directed art events for families offering a wide variety of free activities and performances. Jennifer managed a drama program with casts of 120 kindergarten through fifth grade students and increased fundraiser sales by 70% over the previous year.
  • Jennifer’s enthusiasm to help fund educational programs prompted her to serve as the Marketing Chair for the Mountain View Foundation during its founding year. She developed all the marketing materials for the new Foundation in addition to writing solicitations for donations which enabled the organization to exceed fundraising goals.
  • Before becoming a teacher, Jennifer was an award winning Art Director for Edison Brothers Stores in St. Louis, Missouri. She developed marketing strategies and executed all creative projects for J. Riggings, an international menswear retailer with over 500 locations.
  • Jennifer earned her Master of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in Communication Arts from Webster University. She was named an Elliot Scholar at Washington University in Saint Louis where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Psychology.
  • She lives in Marietta, Georgia with her husband and two daughters. Jennifer enjoys gardening and experimenting with fused glass techniques in her spare time.