{"id":68001,"date":"2018-03-09T23:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T04:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=68001"},"modified":"2018-04-26T22:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T02:19:58","slug":"tonya-m-harris-esq-appointed-to-allentown-school-district-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=68001","title":{"rendered":"TONYA M. HARRIS, ESQ. APPOINTED TO ALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\"><strong>Allentown, PA<\/strong> \u2013 Serving the children of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> largest urban school district in Pennsylvania, the Allentown School District Foundation (ASDF) Board of Directors voted at its board meeting on February 1 the board appointment of Tonya M. Harris, Esq.<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">\u201cWe are excited to add Tonya to our board,\u201d says Kurt D. Zwikl, ASDF president. \u201cAs a graduate of William Allen High School, she has a sincere interest in the welfare of Allentown students, and their success.\u00a0 Her commitment to the cause is true Canary blue.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">Tonya M. Harris, Esq. \u2013 ASDF Board Member Background<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"244\" \/>Tonya Harris attended Allentown School District as a student at Hiram Dodd Elementary School, South Mountain Middle School and William Allen High School, Class of 1994.\u00a0 Having graduated from Temple University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, Tonya continued her education and earned a juris doctorate from the Villanova University School of Law in 2009. Harris today serves as litigation counsel of PPL Services Corporation in Allentown, PA, after gaining litigation experience at several Philadelphia-based firms including White and Williams LLP; Wilbraham Lawler and Buba, PC; and earlier, internships at Judge Raymond A. Means, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, and the Public Interest Law Center.\u00a0 Harris holds bar admissions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">Active in the community, Harris serves as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels of the Lehigh Valley, the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley and the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley.\u00a0 She, her husband Jason, and daughter Fiona reside in Breinigsville.<\/span><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">About Allentown School District Foundation<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">With a vision<b>\u00a0<\/b>for enriched education for Allentown School District students, the ASD Foundation mission is to encourage, promote and support\u00a0innovative educational experiences for students in the Allentown School District. If you would like to learn more, please contact the foundation at <a href=\"tel:(484)%20765-4093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">484-765-4093<\/a> or <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><a target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">williamssu@allentownsd.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">. The mailing address is P.O. Box 328, 31 South Penn Street, Allentown PA 18105. <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allentownsd.org\/asdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.allentownsd.org\/asdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1520742175079000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGJAQOnKCC92tNJEdvXdc9jcOdnkA\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1155cc; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">www.allentownsd.org\/asdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: '&amp;quot',serif;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation Provided By:<br \/>\nOffice of Communications<br \/>\nAllentown School District<br \/>\nwww.allentownsd.org\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asdf.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}