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Addie Heyliger
Business Engagement Manager, CenterPoint Energy/Vice President, Fort Bend ISD Trustee the Fort Bend Independent School Board where she currently serves as the Vice President. When Heyliger is not serving on the school board, she can be found working with the Greater Pearland Area Chapter of the Links Incorporated by partnering with the Boys and Girls Club and facilitating the entrepreneurship program “Be the Boss” for underprivileged children. Heyliger believes that the foundation of a child’s education is their ability to read. She initiated the “Addie’s Read-A-Thon” to support one of the underperforming schools in the district where over 70 volunteers from the community and professional organizations volunteered their time Heyliger has recently won two awards for her service, the Outstanding Texan from the Texas Legislative Black Caucus and the Francis L. Williams Advocacy Award from the Houston Lawyers Association. She is a certified technology professional, having earned her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from North Carolina A&T State University and her Master’s in Business Administration from Texas Women’s University. She is a certified Project Management Professional.
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ddie Heyliger is an accomplished technology professional with over two decades interfacing with senior business executives and technical teams. She provides leadership to a technology organization in the areas of business engagement, project management and portfolio value and delivery for CenterPoint Energy. While Heyliger has excelled professionally and won many awards in her career, her true passion is service. She brings over 18 years of community service to the Houston Area.
She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., The Links Incorporated, and foster care system and promoting child Jack and Jill of America, Inc. She is an placements from foster care to adoption. active member of The Fort Bend Church. She led by example by adopting two children She serves as President of the National of her own and encouraging adoption to Congress of Black Women – Houston other families in her community working Metropolitan Chapter. with various organizations, which has led She is the proud mother of two handsome to other successful adoption placements. young men, Milton and Alex Heyliger. In addition to her advocacy regarding adoption, she also advocates for children Addie Heyliger with mental illness. Heyliger closely works Business Engagement Manager with local law enforcement and medical CenterPoint Energy professionals in order render proper Vice President Fort Bend ISD Trustee services for youth. 713.207.5241
She was able to fulfill one of her life long Most notably she was elected in 2015 and passions by advocating for children in the re-elected in 2018 as Trustee to serve on 98
Top 30 Influential Women of Houston 2019
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