Ms. Kathryn Persley is the President of the Heart of the City Neighborhood Association, which represents the Historic Dunbar Neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri. She has lived in the Dunbar neighborhood for more than 50 years. Ms. Persley is a dynamic leader involved with a wide variety of organizations all for the purpose of revitalizing the Dunbar neighborhood - Kansas City's first Black suburb. Her work includes attention to housing, urban agriculture, neighborhood health, and the future of Dunbar's historical legacy as a place of African American self-determination.