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CHAMBER NEWS FOCUS MAGAZINE | JUNE 2022

Carmen Turner Named LRCC Community Service

Award Recipient

armen Turner, president Carmen has been an advocate for women throughout
& CEO of the Boys & Girls her career, and her two daughters are no exception. Like
CClub of Lansing, has been their mother, Chandler and Camryn have already entered
named the recipient of the Lansing the community service arena. After graduation, Chandler
Regional Chamber of Commerce moved to Portland and began work with a program that
Community Service Award. Turner supports women dealing with homelessness. Camryn
was recognized for her commitment received an award her senior year in college for her
to the community, particularly her volunteer work with youth in the Boston area.
commitment to enriching the lives of
youth. Carmen says she was humbled, Turner “My daughters are the wind beneath my wings,” said
honored, elated, and shocked when Carmen. “As a single parent I refused to allow that to be
informed about this prestigious an excuse in our family. I always felt my influence with my
award. daughters wouldn’t be in what I said to them, but rather
in what I showed them and my expectation of them to
"I was shocked because Lansing is a community full of give back to their community.”
deserving people, humbled even to be considered for
the award," said Turner. "I’m also honored to have been True to her humble nature, Carmen Turner says the
nominated by Danielle Robinson from Jackson National." Community Service Award is a credit to her Boys & Girls
Club family and the support they have given her and her
Carmen Turner has served as president & CEO at the Boys family for more than two decades. l
& Girls Club for more than 20 years. During that time, she
has led the Club to expand its membership, established
a meaningful endowment, and taken action to ensure
the Club’s sustainability. During the COVID-19 pandemic,
she built a diverse team, award-winning programming
for youth, paid off their building, expanded with the
Jackson Teen Zone and shifted to a remote learning lab
for Lansing School District students.

Carmen has been a dedicated community servant,
actively involved in her church and a commissioner for
Delta Township Parks and Recs for over nine years. She is
a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and is currently
the state ambassador for the Boys & Girls Club of
Michigan. She has served on the MLK Commission, MCAN,
CAPCAN, BCBS Advisory Board, Rotary Foundation and
Rotary Board of Directors, Capital Region Community
Foundation Board, and CAWU's Agency Relations
Committee, to name a few.

“I believe in the saying that to whom much is given,
much is required,” said Carmen. “It is about showing up
and offering the gifts I have been given. Everybody has
been given a gift of something different, and if you allow We are ambitious and persistent achievers.
yourself to share that gift, the person receiving that gift is Each one of us is driven to do work that delivers
going to change their life.” quality and pushes boundaries.

Carmen has raised two highly accomplished daughters:
Chandler Turner is a graduate of University of Notre
Dame and Camryn Turner has completed her bachelor’s
degree at Harvard University and is currently pursuing a
master’s degree at Harvard.

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