Sarasota County School Board Member Tom Edwards Joins 13 Distinguished National Leaders Committed to Building a More Connected Community

Published by SRQ Magazine

Tom Edwards, a Sarasota County School Board Member and executive director of Project Pride, has joined the Boxser Diversity Initiative (BDI) Advisory Board. He becomes one of 14 national leaders helping guide BDI’s work to promote inclusion and connection across the Sarasota-Manatee region. Elected to the Sarasota County School Board in 2020 and re-elected in 2024, Edwards has been recognized for his leadership on behalf of students, educators and public education. He brings to BDI a career spanning entrepreneurship, civic engagement and nonprofit leadership. As executive director of Project Pride, Edwards has led the organization’s new focus on community impact programming. Before his election to the School Board, he co-founded and operated two successful New York businesses and spent more than a decade advocating for small businesses in the New York State Assembly.

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