Please join us for the annual Frankfort Interfaith Council Community Picnic in Upper Cove Spring Archery Park pavilion on Cedar Cove Road in Frankfort. Please bring a dish to share and join us in an afternoon of food and fellowship. The public is warmly invited--please share this invitation.
Our honored guest this year will be Amy Nance Snow, who will be recognized as the recipient of the Interfaith Council’s 2025 Ruby Layson Award for promoting the interfaith qualities of justice, compassion and human kindness. Layson, a charter member of the Interfaith Council, died in 2017. She was a journalist, educator, environmentalist, world traveler, and tireless worker for peace and equality.
Ms. Snow is the co-founder and executive director of the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation, a nonprofit organization serving children, youth and families impacted by incarceration. The foundation was established in 2018, and its positive impact continues to grow in this community.
“Amy Snow is a visionary,” said Trina Schimmoeller, director of mentoring for the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation. “She is a powerful, kind, amazing person who drives and leads with such compassion and grace. It’s inspiring to be a part of her work. She had the idea for the Boys and Girls Club of Frankfort and helped the board get created. And the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation will always be working closely with the Boys and Girls Club of Frankfort.”
Ms. Snow is a Frankfort native and a Western Hills High School graduate. She has 25 years of experience working with at-risk children and youth. Her background includes therapeutic foster care, and working with the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, and Franklin County Schools.
Ms. Snow has a bachelor’s degree in corrections and juvenile services, and a master’s in criminal justice with an emphasis in child and adolescent counseling, both from Eastern Kentucky University. She credits her volunteer work during the early years of The Kings Center as the experience that created her passion for program development in under-served communities.
In 2014, Snow started the summer feeding and outreach program at the Capital Mobile Home trailer park. Today it thrives as a nonprofit known as the Pavilion Foundation, founded by Kathy Pauley. In 2009, Snow began Cinderella’s Closet of Franklin County, a program that provides prom attire to students.
Amy is married to Daniel Snow. They have three children: Jaida, Aaliyah and Zailey; and many “adopted” children as well. Amy is the daughter of Roy and Karen Nance, and is a member of First United Methodist Church.
The local Interfaith Council has members from the Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha’i, Quaker, and Unitarian Universalist religions.
Please consider joining us as we continue to explore ways to spread compassion in Frankfort, Kentucky and beyond.
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