Founders' Plaza

Every Legacy Begins With Someone Who Chose to Believe First.

Every House has a beginning. Founders' Plaza honors the Charter ALUXNI whose early commitment helped establish a legacy that will strengthen school communities while inspiring future generations of Lux Learners.

A quiet stone plaza at golden hour, colonnade shadows across the paving.

Founding Places

5015 House

7 of 111 Founding Places Claimed

Editorial portrait of Nefertari Edge, Founding Charter ALUXNI of 5015 House.

Why I Came Home

A Bronco on legacy, service & giving forward

Plus · Founders' Plaza · Featured Founder

501(c)(3)

A nonprofit endeavor

The 5015 House Issue

Nefertari Daniels, senior portrait, 1996 Kenwood Academy yearbook.
Then · Class of 1996
Nefertari Edge · Kenwood Academy Class of 1996 · Founder's Circle · FP-001

Featured Founder

Kenwood Academy · Class of 1996 · 5015 House

Founding Charter ALUXNIFounder's CircleFP-001

Nefertari Edge returns to the school that shaped her — not as a visitor, but as a Founder. In this cover story, she reflects on Kenwood Academy, the Class of 1996, and what it means to believe first.

Founders’ Plaza · Featured Founder

Registry of Founders

The names written first.

3 founders

Marcus Bell

Kenwood Academy
Class of 1988 · 5015 House

Founding Charter ALUXNI

Cornerstone Society

Portrait of Nefertari Edge

Nefertari Edge

Formerly Daniels

Kenwood Academy
Class of 1996 · 5015 House

Founding Charter ALUXNI

Founder's Circle

Terrence Vaughn

Kenwood Academy
Class of 2011 · 5015 House

Founding Charter ALUXNI

Legacy Builder

Reserved

Maybe your name belongs here.

This space has been intentionally left for the Charter ALUXNI who have yet to arrive.

Claim a founding place

Founder’s Honors

How founding recognition is expressed.

All Charter ALUXNI honors are established through a one-time initiation contribution. Active annual House membership renews at the standard House Member amount, currently $25 per year.

Charter Resident

$51

one-time initiation

Permanent name and graduating class in the Registry of Founders.

Choose Charter Resident

Legacy Builder

$111

one-time initiation

Charter Resident recognition plus the Charter ALUXNI badge.

Choose Legacy Builder

Founder's Circle

$511

one-time initiation

All prior recognition plus an editorial feature and Featured Founder eligibility.

Choose Founder's Circle

Why Become a Founder

Belief, recorded permanently.

You establish the record

Founding names are written once. Your place in the Registry of Founders is permanent and never reassigned.

You fund the school directly

Charter initiation contributions move into school-community support and the platform that keeps each House standing.

You make the House possible

A House opens because enough alumni chose to believe before there was proof. That is the whole mechanism.

You leave a door open

Every founding place claimed makes the next graduate's return easier, warmer, and already prepared.

Founding Timeline

A living archive of how the town began.

  1. January 2026

    Founders' Plaza opens

    The first Charter ALUXNI records are entered into the Registry of Founders.

  2. February 2026

    5015 House founding class begins

    Kenwood Academy alumni claim the first founding places at the 5015 House address.

  3. March 2026

    211 Suite founding class begins

    Whitney M. Young alumni open the second House of the town.

  4. Anticipated 2026

    First Founders' Journal featureAnticipated

    An editorial profile of a Founder's Circle member enters the Journal archive.

  5. Anticipated 2027

    Third House charteredAnticipated

    A new school community begins its own founding class.

Reserved

Maybe your name belongs here.

This space has been intentionally left for the Charter ALUXNI who have yet to arrive.

Founding Charter ALUXNI

The town remembers who arrived first.

Founding places are claimed once, in a single class, and then the record closes. If your House is still open, your name can be written into it.