Monarch Academy Baltimore, a public charter school serving students from kindergarten through eighth grade, named Kimberley Amprey Flowers chair of the school’s board of directors. Flowers has served on the board since November 2016. She is a realtor with experience teaching in Baltimore and New York City public schools.

Flowers has held positions as the deputy director and ombudsperson for the department of planning and zoning in Howard County and the director of the department of parks and recreation in both Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Flowers also served as an operations analyst for the Baltimore mayor’s office.

Among her distinctions, Flowers received the Rising Star Award from the Greater Baltimore Urban League and was recognized as an Outstanding Woman of Maryland by WEAA, a National Public Radio affiliate station.

Flowers earned a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in science from James Madison University. She lives in Ellicott City with her husband and twin sons.

Monarch Academy is an affiliate of the TranZed Alliance, a nonprofit organization serving children, families and child-serving organizations and dedicated to transforming how America educates and cares for its children through education, behavioral health and national training and consultation services. Additional affiliates of TranZed Alliance include The Children’s Guild, The Children’s Guild D.C. Public Charter School, The Transformation Education Institute, the TranZed Alliance Conference Center, The National Children’s Guild Fund and TranZed Apprenticeship Services. (www.tranzed.org)