Community Action has named its new top executive.

Jeniffer DeWeese has been tabbed to the post of Executive Director for the non-profit in central Illinois. On the WHOW Morning Show Friday, the agency introduced DeWeese and outlined her journey to the top spot in the agency and her roots as an educator in the Head Start program.

Having been named to the post for almost a week now, DeWeese says she is getting the process started by learning about all the aspects that encompass Community Action.

In her introduction to all the leaders of Community Action and learning all the intricacies of the agency, she credits the leadership in place and will look to them to find out how she can best support them.

Alison Rumler-Gomez resigned from the agency earlier this year and the search for her replacement took a few months. Rumler-Gomez was instrumental in engineering a philosophical shift within the agency geared towards a mission of getting those in its communities out of poverty and into a thriving, self-reliant lifestyle. 

DeWeese says she looks forward to carrying on that mission and vision laid out by Rumler-Gomez.