We are pleased to welcome Dr. Takesha Leonard as our 2024 Mount St. Mary Academy Commencement Speaker.
Dr. Takesha Leonard is both a board-certified Christian Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC) and a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with a great interest in community health and decreasing health disparities in under-resourced communities. She obtained her BSN from the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in 2001 and subsequently received her MSN, FNP followed by her Doctorate in Health Policy/Health Administration from D'Youville College. She has been practicing family medicine for the past 14 years at Jericho Road Community Health Center founded by Dr. Myron Glick and works as a PMHNP at Gateway-Longview.
She currently holds the position of Medical Director for Jericho Road’s Eastside Doat Street location. She is also a part-time nurse practitioner for Landmark Health, providing in-home health services for geriatric patients. Her long-term goal is to improve the scope of the healthcare system in the communities that she serves by being intentionally focused on holistic care of the mind, body, and spirit. More personally, she has been married for the past 23 years to Shawn Leonard, and together, they have 5 wonderful boys.
Dr. Leonard is excited to speak to our graduating class with her overall message centered on empowering, inspiring, and uplifting the next generation of leaders.
Attention MSM families! If you or anyone you know is tackling a spring cleaning project, please keep our STEAM classes in mind if you find any of the items listed below! Our STEAM classes will put these items to good use and your donations ensure that MSM's STEAM classroom remains a vibrant and well-equipped environment for learning.
We will gratefully accept donations of the following items:
- Knitting Supplies - Students will learn to knit and relate knitting to coding. Supplies required include old knitting needles, and balls of yarn (half used balls of yarn are perfect).
- Sewing Supplies - Students will engineer their own patterns and sew items for themselves and/or Barbie dolls. We need fun interesting fabrics, fat quarters, and thread. We would also greatly appreciate one or two unused sewing machines.
- LEGO - One of our goals for next year is to build a Rube Goldberg Machine out of LEGOS to enter the ECC Tech Wars Competition. We would be grateful for donations of old, unloved LEGOS sitting in basements; our STEAM students will put them to good use!
If you are able to donate, please send the items to school with your student. Thank you in advance for your continued support and dedication to our MSM STEAM programs!
Any current MSM family (registered for 23-24) is eligible for a one-time tuition credit of $500 if they refer a new family with a student in the class of 2025, 2026, 2027, or 2028 to our school!
Important details: New family must register, not just inquire.
Contact Ms. Suchan-Reitz in the Office of Admissions for more details: esuchan-reitz@msmacademy.org
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Mount St. Mary Academy
Mount St. Mary Academy, founded by the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, is a Catholic, private, college preparatory school for young women. Within a nurturing and academically challenging and inclusive environment, the Academy strives to develop the whole person’s gifts and potential. Guided by our Catholic tradition, and rooted in Gospel values, we empower scholars to be leaders dedicated to lifelong learning, moral integrity, social justice, and service to and inclusion of others.
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Email: information@msmacademy.org
Website: https://www.msmacademy.org
Location: 3756 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, USA
Phone: 716-877-1358
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