Housing Authority CEO to speak at Albany Tech event
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ALBANY — William Myles will be the featured speaker at Albany Technical College’s TEAAMS monthly empowerment session Thursday at 10 a.m. at the college’s Logistics Education Center.
The session is part of the college’s Teaching, Empowering, African American Males to Succeed program designed to provide African American males with fundamental skills to help them succeed and persist through internal and external challenges.
“The TEAAMS Project is honored to have Dr. William Myles, the first African American CEO of Albany and Lee County Housing Authority, empower the African American Male students during this event,” TEAAMS Project Director Quanta Bell said in a news release. “Each month, the TEAAMS project hosts an empowerment session. ATC faculty and community leaders are invited to speak to the students.”
Myles is a public housing professional with 18 years of experience who is currently serving as the CEO of the Albany and Lee County Housing Authority in the city of Albany. He was born and raised in public housing in Meridian, Miss., where he spent the first 20 years of his life in the Western Gardens housing development.
Myles attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in marketing while working as the program director at the East Mississippi Boys & Girls Club.
After undergraduate school, he started his professional public housing career at the Meridian Housing Authority in Meridian, where his first position was community liaison. Several years later, he was promoted to FSS coordinator, neighborhood network center director, and lastly, director of community and supportive services.
Myles later received his MBA from the University of Phoenix and transitioned to Philadelphia after eight years of service at Meridian Housing Authority. He was the executive vice president of Community Operations & Resident Development at the Philadelphia Housing Authority, which serves more than 82,000 residents.
Myles later completed his doctoral program in Strategic Leadership at Thomas Jefferson University and received a Ph.D., for which his dissertation was on effectively transitioning residents out of public housing.
Myles has served on national HUD panels as a subject matter expert regarding Section 3, smoke-free policy, JobsPlus, and the FYI Voucher Program, to name a few. He was also invited to the White House to discuss the smoke-free implementation strategy and policy.
In his six years as CEO of the Albany and Lee County Housing Authority, he has successfully closed on a $30 million deal that will rehab 279 units, established the Jeanette Henderson Scholarship Program, created a CNA job training and placement program, and established a Youth Leadership Academy for youths in the community.
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