While heading up the Pointe Coupée Early Childhood Coalition, Perkins has expanded access to care in Pointe Coupée Parish. She also led the organization to recognition as Nonprofit of the Year in 2023 and Business of the Year in 2024 by the Greater Pointe Coupée Chamber of Commerce. She acquired $17 million in grant funds to support literacy in 2020 while working as director of special projects at the Louisiana Department of Education. Perkins also coordinates the local meal ministry in Zachary’s Americana neighborhood and volunteers with the St. Joseph Cathedral Choir.
Personal motto:
Dr. Quentina Timoll taught me to ask, “Are the children well?” and to do whatever it takes to make sure you can answer in the affirmative.
Memorable embarrassing moment:
In graduate school, my roommate and I attempted to boil a sack of crawfish in spaghetti pots in our apartment. This was not a good idea.
First set of wheels:
It was a Jeep and the prior owner had put about 30 bumper stickers on it. Since it was already 15 years old, I had a policy that anybody could give me any bumper sticker and I’d put it on the car.
Meet the rest of Business Report’s 2024 Forty Under 40.
