2021 Foundation Ball Honoree
Comer Yates
For 22 years Comer Yates has served as Executive Director of the Atlanta Speech School, the nation’s most comprehensive language and literacy center with four schools, clinical programs and the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy. Through research-based language and literacy instruction and intervention, the School impacts the lives of approximately 1,400 children and adults on its campus and thousands of students across Georgia and the nation through its Rollins Center’s professional development program and its free, online Cox Campus (coxcampus.org). The Rollins Center concentrates on providing educators with the capacity to break the cycle of illiteracy and resulting poverty for children whose families have experienced a generational lack of access to educational opportunity.
Comer serves as Chair of the Georgia Commission on Hearing Impaired and Deaf Persons; as Co-Chair of Georgia’s Pathway to Language and Literacy; is on the cabinet of Get Georgia Reading, and is a member of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Braintrust for Babies.
2021 FOUNDATION BALL EMCEE
JOVITA MOORE
Jovita Moore, WSB-TV Channel 2 News Anchor, will emcee our 2021 Foundation Ball.
Jovita has won numerous Emmy Awards and donates countless hours to civic associations and non-profit organizations across metro Atlanta.
ONLINE SILENT AUCTION
Bidding opens Friday, April 9, 2021, at 12 noon and closes Friday, April 16, during the virtual event.
Silent Auction bidding is open to non-attendees.
Everyone must register to participate in the Silent Auction.
auction registration
You will need to load the app for the online auction onto your mobile phone, laptop or desktop. It is not accessible from the virtual event. Load the app, register and add your credit card to be able to view the items and bid. Non-Rotary members are welcome to bid as well, so if you have friends and family that love Silent Auctions, send them the link and get them to sign in!
Here is the link to log into the Silent Auction: