Janet Pace
Community Colleagues Panel

Janet Pace, newly appointed Executive Director of the Louisiana Serve Commission, represents the community voice from her various partner roles. She serves on the LSU Service-Learning Advisory Board and as former Director of Volunteer Outreach for the Louisiana Serve Commission, she implemented strategic volunteer initiatives and supported collaborative efforts among nonprofits, faith-based organizations and state agencies and had oversight of www.volunteerlouisiana.gov, disaster response efforts for spontaneous volunteers. 

She is former President of Volunteer! Baton Rouge, which partnered with LSU Service-Learning in a number of capacities.  During her tenure at VBR!, the agency was named the 2005 National Volunteer Center of the Year by the Points of Light Foundation . Pace has served on the boards of several nonprofits addressing public education and children’s issues as well as the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board and served on the Volunteers in Public Schools Board when VIPS and LSU shared the 2003 Gulf-South Summit Creative Collaboration Award.