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    Date: 1/21/2025
    
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Merit Board
Member Profile

Ms. Kisha Lang

Western Illinois University
Appointed: 7/3/2024

Mrs. Lang is very passionate when it comes to educating our youth and young adults. To high school and through college is the ultimate goal. Learning for a lifetime is her philosophy. Mrs. Lang has taught in three of the Chicago Public Schools for 17 years; Thurgood Marshall Middle School, Harper High School and Orr Academy High School. She coached at Evanston Township High School for 16 years, Volleyball and Softball. She has been in leadership for 13 years; Dean of Students, Director of Operations, and a Turnaround Administrator. She was the Assistant Principal at Proviso East High School, Assistant Principal at Thea Bowman Leadership Academy in Indiana, the Principal at Bridgescape Learning Academy at the Humboldt Park Campus and now she is the Sophomore Grade Level Principal at Proviso West High School in Hillside, Illinois.

Mrs. Lang completed her undergraduate degree at Western Illinois University in 1991 in Macomb, Illinois. In 2006, Mrs. Lang received her Masters of Arts Degree in School leadership Curriculum and Instruction with an Administrative Certificate Type 75 from Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. She completed the coursework in her doctoral program at Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where as she received her EdS. Her final goal is to complete the dissertation so that she may receive her EdD.

Mrs. Lang was initiated into the illustrious Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; Eta Eta Chapter which is founded on Christian principles. Mrs. Lang has been an active member since Spring 1989, and has continued her active membership through the present year for over 32 years. Of course Mrs. Lang has worked closely with the educational development, heritage and archives, physical & mental health, and the social action programs in the sorority.