Tom Kohler

Tom Kohler, Coordinator and Executive Director, is a native of Savannah.  He attended the public schools in Chatham County and graduated in 1970 from Herschel V. Jenkins High School.  After this, he attended Armstrong State College and the University of Georgia, where he received his degree in 1976. 

Tom has been involved with people who have disabilities since he was 15 years old.  His first involvement was through a volunteer experience at the Temple Youth Group at Mickve Israel Temple.  Tom has been the Coordinator for the Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy for the past 31 years. 

In the early days, Tom was taught that the question was “In what ways is this person broken and how do we fix them?”  It has taken thirty years to get to a better question, “The world has a deep crack in it;, how do we try and stitch it back together?”  This question follows Buckminster Fuller’s maxim, “Life is long; pick something big and interesting and work on it.”