The City of Lee’s Summit announced that Emmanuel Ngomsi, Ph.D. is the recipient of the City’s 2011 Civic Leadership Award presented by the West Gate Region of the Missouri Municipal League (MML).
The West Gate Region of MML consists of member municipalities in the metropolitan counties of Jackson, Clay, Platte, Ray and Cass.
Lee’s Summit Mayor Randy Rhoads named Ngomsi for the award, which will be presented on Thursday, July 21, during a dinner meeting of area municipal officials and civic leaders at the Adams Pointe Conference Center, 1400 NE Coronado Drive, Blue Springs.
“Dr. Ngomsi has been actively involved by lending his leadership abilities and expertise to many activities and organizations in the Lee’s Summit community for several years and for those reasons he was selected for this honor,” said Mayor Rhoads.
Among his civic involvement is a board member of the Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce, a member of Lee’s Summit 360°: Charting Tomorrow Strategic Plan Implementation Committee and a recent graduate of Lee’s Summit Citizen’s Police Academy. For the second consecutive year, he is chairperson of the City’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
He serves on the board of Lee’s Summit CARES, an organization promoting youth safety and improving the community’s health and well-being; is a member of the Lee’s Summit Ad Hoc Committee on Community Diversity, and is an award-winning author and educator.
Dr. Ngomsi is president of All World Languages and Cultures, Inc., where he teaches respect and value of cultural diversity and languages.
He was born in Cameroon and has lived in the U.S. for 21 years. He and his wife, Justine, have five children who graduated from high school in the Lee’s Summit School District. Four of the children have graduated from college and another child will graduate from college in 2012.
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