Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation

Constance Barkley-Lewis started her tenure as Interim Executive Director for the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation in February 2026. She has held leadership positions in corporate marketing, media and finance, non-profit foundations, and civic organizations. She is the author of Fairy Garden: Fairies of the Four Seasons , co-author of Oh My Wordle! , and the creator of two musicals and an award-winning one-act play.

Her love of reading, children, and her adopted Atlanta hometown makes her excited to step into this role. Her first career was as the founding director of the Metropolitan Area Committee Public Education Fund in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she worked with the Ford Foundation and the national Public Education Foundation to increase private support for public education.

Her position at AFPLF feels like a homecoming as she focuses on how to grow support for critical library programming made possible only by the Library Foundation as government support for public libraries declines.

Constance earned a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in English from UNC Chapel Hill. She is a member of Leadership Atlanta and has served in leadership positions on civic and non-profit boards including Invest Atlanta, The Historic District Development Committee, and the C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Dale Lewis.