Alexis Ehrhardt’s mother instilled in her the importance of education, public service and making a difference in her community.
“She was someone who valued inclusion and equity over just about everything else,” Ehrhardt, a Rockville, Maryland, native, said during an interview at her office at Averett University on Thursday morning. “She used to take me to marches in [Washington] D.C. and strap a billboard on me.”
On Jan. 2, Ehrhardt, 39, will apply what she has learned from her late mother and throughout her career on a region-wide scale when she becomes the new president and CEO of the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce.
