Felita R. Kahrs is a stay-at-home wife, mother, and former educator. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English Education from Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA. After graduating, she moved to Maryland where she began a career as a teacher in the Prince Georges County Public School System. As she witnessed the impact of single parent families and generational dysfunction on many of her students, Felita’s passion to see these young people and their families escape the vicious cycles of poverty, hopelessness and lack plaguing their lives was birthed. Committed to make a difference, Felita went on to earn a Master of Science degree in Administration and Supervision from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and served as a middle school and high school vice principal in Prince Georges County and a Principal of Cornerstone Beulah Christian Academy in Washington, D.C. To broaden her impact, Felita moved to the District of Columbia where she lobbied for Concerned Women for America. Here she worked on important national legislation such as the “No Child Left Behind Act.” Felita was formerly the Director of Family Services for the Washington Scholarship Fund where she continued to serve low-income families through education and community service programs. She later worked as the Quality Assurance Manager for Non-Public Educational Services Inc. (NESI), an organization that offers Title I supplemental reading and math services to private school students in Kindergarten through 12th grades. Felita has worked in education for nearly 20 years concentrating most of her career assisting disadvantaged children in their educational pursuits. Felita has a love and passion to unite people groups and particularly in the Body of Christ. In January 2003, God gave her a vision for racial reconciliation and forgiveness through the love of Christ and Beyond the Color Line (BTCL) ministry was born. Through BTCL, Felita endeavors to address and expose the spiritual problems at the root of racial issues and disunity afflicting our society. In 2011, after her husband, Jeff, accepted a job in Topeka, KS, Felita was appointed by Kansas Governor, Sam Brownback, to serve two terms on the Supreme Court Nominating Commission. Felita and Jeff currently reside in Topeka with their two young sons, Samuel and William.