2020 Young Alumna Award

Brittany Joiner Lucas, Class of 2006

Brittany Lucas smiles for the camera.
If you asked colleagues, friends, or family to describe Dr. Brittany Joiner Lucas ’06, you would hear things like lively, smart, funny, intelligent, a strong woman, a go-getter… but the most common answer would surely be servant leader. Brittany has dedicated her life to serving her community, her church, and her alma mater. 

After graduating from Wesleyan with a degree in middle grades education, Brittany earned her M.Ed. degree with a secondary reading endorsement at Georgia College and State University and began her career as a middle school teacher in Twiggs County, Georgia. In 2009, she accepted the position of director of operations, satellite operations at MGTC (Middle Georgia Technical College now Central Georgia Technical College/CGTC). She has spent the last twelve years working to improve the lives of hundreds of Middle Georgia citizens through her work in the adult education department as a literacy teacher. Advancing to the position of lead adult education instructor in Pulaski County, she helped students earn their GEDs and become contributing members of society.

Next she accepted a newly created job at the college serving as the instructional coordinator for the Career Pathways and Accelerated Opportunities (AO) program. There she helped develop and implement a program allowing students to enroll in college courses for credit while they worked on their GEDs. MGTC was the first technical college to offer this program to its students. In 2013, Brittany served as director of operations for the Hawkinsville Workforce Development Center where she continued working not only with adult learners but also with high school students in the areas of dual enrollment and in economic development training. During this time, Brittany earned her Ph.D. in adult education with an educational leadership concentration from The University of Georgia, where she received a graduate scholarship for outstanding GPA. 

Currently at CGTC, Brittany is executive director for re-entry services providing technical certificates of credit and on-the-job training for citizens at thirteen Georgia correctional facilities. The goal for these citizens is to gain the knowledge and training needed to find successful employment upon release. Under her leadership CGTC has partnered with the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) to establish the RESET Award for previously incarcerated citizens. She also created multifaceted educational and job readiness programs for residential substance abuse treatment facilities within the GDC and the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, and even co-presented at the Southern States Correctional Association on “Pathways for Returning Citizens.” 

In 2012, MGTC honored Brittany as Adult Education Instructor of the Year. She also was nominated for the Rick Perkins Award.  She has served on the boards of the Hawkinsville-Pulaski and Bleckley County Chambers of Commerce, and for UGA Archway Partnership. 

As a Wesleyan student, Brittany was a basketball athlete, president of Kappa Delta Epsilon, member of Mortar Board and WAVE, and participated in STUNT. As an alumna, she has returned to campus to speak with students and to serve on alumnae panels. When not at work, Brittany spends time with her husband Luther and their daughter Mazie Pearl. She is a member of the praise team and serves as a children’s ministry volunteer at First Baptist Church in Cochran. 

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