Leslie Friday currently works with Partners In Health as the director of content on the organization's Marketing and Communications team. After obtaining her master's degree from Boston University's College of Communications, she worked as a print journalist for a variety of weekly and daily publications in the profit and nonprofit sector. Leslie is a Peace Corps alum, has traveled to five continents, and is fluent in Spanish, rusty in French, and can manage introductory Pulaar and Haitian Creole. She and her husband, Tieh Caleb Friday, have lived in Gloucester since 2007. They have three children in the Gloucester Public Schools.

“My favorite thing the Gloucester Education Foundation has done is supported our children in the after school program - in particular, the arts program.”