Kenyetta Overton, Executive Director is a Philadelphia native and product of the Philadelphia public school system; began her professional career as a sales and administrative professional. Over the years, she honed her skills in various industries; including employment recruiting, higher education and investment banking. Eventually, those skills helped her moved on to opportunities in project management, marketing, research, events planning, and business development. Later, Kenyetta harnessed her expertise and formed OPS, LLC, a professional services consultancy that provides career readiness support to professionals around the country via workshops, consultations and private coaching.
Having been a creative since childhood, Kenyetta is also an artist; whose chosen mediums are plaster gauze, found objects, papier-mâché, acrylic paints, and stains. She has been creating sculptures and relief art on canvas and wood for more than 20 years, creating commissioned work for university officials and other professionals around the globe. Kenyetta has served as an artists-in-residence at the Please Touch Museum and has curated a kids’ event for Battle of the Canvas Philadelphia, a ten-hour arts festival featuring live painting, music, and dance. She is a short story writer and poet; who has performed and read her work at poetry slams and literary venues along the east coast.
In 2007, Kenyetta and husband, Jamil Overton cofounded The Murals of the Mind Project (M.O.M.), an alternative education and enrichment nonprofit for youth in Philadelphia and Camden ages 10 through 17. Initially, the organization offered Literati, a creative writing and performance workshops however, in 2012 M.O.M. launch the program You’re Hired! / Get Hired! College and Career Readiness. In 2016 and 2018, M.O.M added Write on Time Essay Writing and Accepted High School Readiness respectively. The mentoring aspect of each program was a natural outgrowth of each program after the Overtons realized that youth in they served needed additional support outside of what M.O.M. offered. Since its inception, the organization has served more than 3,000 youth in two cities across two states.
Kenyetta and The Murals of the Mind Project have been featured in several periodicals; including Philadelphia Family and Apiary magazines; as well as Philadelphia Tribune and South Philly Review. For more than a decade, she has used M.O.M. as a vehicle to help young people prepare for a 21st century future. It is her greatest desire to continue doing just that.
An active member of the Golden Key Honour Society, Kenyetta holds an M.A. in Arts Administration from Drexel University and a B.A, in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.