Name: Ardale Clark
Company: Beyond Limits Entertainment Performance Arts Club
What Does Your Company/Organization Do? Inspire others to create, grow, and become the best version of themselves, all while enchancing and leaving footprints in the world of performing arts!
Age: 37
Education: Benton Harbor High School LMC College
Accomplishments:
Boys and Girls Club of Benton Harbor and Texas Employee 2002– Current Benton Harbor Area Schools 2007- Current 21st Century Performance Art Instructor 2012-2018 Americorp 2005-2008 Americorp Member Council 2008 Disc Jockey 2006-Current Miss Benton Harbor Pageant Committee 2008 – Current Miss Benton Harbor Pageant Choreographer 2009- Current Miss Benton Harbor Co-Chair / 2015 Miss Blossomtime Committee 2014-2019 Miss Spirit Pageant Choreographer 2016 Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year 2003 & 2004 BGC State of Michigan Youth of the Year 1st runner up 2004 BGCBH eight-time Youth of the Year Chaperon/Coach (including 2 State, and 1 Midwest top 5 tittles) BGCA Youth of the Year National Chaperon for final five Regional finalist 2014 Connect Up Community Empowerment Board Youth Advisor 2004-2007 Kellogg’s Leadership for Community Change Fellow 2006-2009 Pilgrim Rest Praise Dance Instructor 2003-2010 C.O.G.I.C Community Church Youth Instructor 2011-2014 Benton Harbor High School Graduation Coordinator/Advisor 2015 Benton Harbor High School Class 2015 and 2022 Advisor Benton Harbor High School Prom Chairman 2014 Herald Palladium Newspaper Spot Light Inductee 2014 Herald Palladium Newspaper Everyday Inspiration Q&A 2015 Eighteen 1st Place Trophies for Marching Units win within a Parade / (ranging for 2002-Current) 3 Grand Sweepstakes for Marching Units within a Parade 2004, 2007, & 2012 Director of Benton Harbor Area Schools Commercial 2016 Benton Harbors Men of Honor Inductee 2013 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Men of Excellence Inductee 2014 Black Girls Rocks Man of the Year Award 2013 Hosts (Helping One Student to Succeed) National Keynote Speaker 2005 Key Note Speaker for the BGC Steak and Burger 2006 Invitational Senior-Professional Golf Association Tournament Speaker 2011 Benton Harbor Mayors Debate Mediator 2007 Performed and Directed over 100 stage plays 2000-Current I’m Saving Myself student Drama Director 2005 Master of Ceremony 2006-Current Mayors Citizen Achievement Recognition 2016 Currently Updating
Current City: Benton Harbor
Place You Were Born: Benton Harbor
What was your first job? The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Southwest Michigan. It’s also the first organization to contract my performance arts program club, Beyond Limits Ent LLC….
What motivates you to give back to your community? The simple fact that I have been given so much as a child in need. I lost my mother at the age of 14 and my caretaker at the age of 16, but the village of Benton Harbor, I’m talking (Teachers, Preachers, Family, Friends, ETC…) stepped up and made sure I didn’t miss a beat as a child, even today as an adult and for that I’m forever in the debt of my community!
What Superpower would you most love to have? The ability to change people’s circumstances in the snap of a finger, would be rewarding and cool!
What would you like to leave behind as your legacy once you are gone? That I was a Giver, Pure, and Believed that everyone had something special to give the World!
