The Martin Luther King Community Center of Indianapolis (the MLK Center) announced today that Seana Murphy will serve as its next executive director starting August 18, 2025.
Murphy started her 27-year career in education working at the MLK Center.
"The MLK Center is an important institution in the community," Murphy said. "I have had the opportunity to witness its reorganization of programming, facility expansion and financial growth. Those changes provide an opportunity to create innovative programming, leverage additional human and monetary capital and to raise the center's reputational capital.”
Murphy's leadership experience, vision and dedication to the Beloved Community makes her uniquely suited to guide us into our next chapter, said MLK board chair Andrea McGordon.
"The board members are confident that with Seana Murphy's guidance the MLK Center will continue to grow, evolve, and expand its impact in a meaningful way," McGordon said.
Murphy's experience includes being the state director of the Twenty-first Century Scholars program, senior director of Indiana Learns, vice president of Early Learning Indiana, assistant vice president of admissions and enrollment management at Ivy Tech Community College, director of Pre-College programs at IUPUI and executive director of the Jubilee Program at Broadway United Methodist Church.
The 50-year-old MLK Center, located at 40 West 40th Street, serves residents in the Butler-Tarkington, Meridian-Kessler, Crown Hill and Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhoods.
The MLK Center follows the teachings of Dr. King to help people of all ages find their own paths to success and stability. The MLK Center's staff and programming focus on Dr. King's vision of the Beloved Community, where all neighbors thrive in an atmosphere of non-violence.
The MLK Center has a staff of about 40 individuals and an annual operating budget of $4 million.
The MLK Center programs focus on families, providing intensive support and mentoring for students and adults, employment planning, nonviolence training and workforce development. It is also home for 40 West Digital, a film and video production company, and the Best Buy Teen Tech Center.
