boARD OF DIRECTORS

Reginald Dickson
Chairman and Executive Vice President, BYW Investment Advisors, Inc.
Former CEO, Inroads

Judy Bentley
Founder, President, & CEO
CHIPS Health and Wellness Center

 

Dr. Bernard Lafayette
Chairman of the Board
Southern Christian Leadership Conference

 

Dr. Terrence Roberts
One of the Little Rock Nine
CEO, Roberts Management Consulting

 

Dr. Marva Robinson 
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

 

Dr. Stefan Bradley
Professor of Black Studies and History
Amherst College

 

Kymberly Smith Jackson, JD
Principal – Phoenix Law Firm
Board Member – Legal Advisor

Andrew J. Young
Former US Ambassador to the UN
Advisor

Tony Neal
Principal, Educational Equity Consultants

Leon Sharpe
Organizational Consultant, The Praxis Group, LLC

Robert Litan                                                                                                                                                 Economist
Non-resident Fellow, Brookings Institute
Author

PAST BOARD MEMBERS

Dr. Daniel Isom
Director, REJIS, Endowed Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri St. Louis, former Chief of Police, City of St. Louis, Former
Director, Missouri Department of Public Safety,
The National Youth Summit Chair

Donna Rogers-Beard
Retired teacher
Board Secretary

Douglas Petty, Ph. D. (Retired)
President/CEO Christian Counseling
Past Chairman of the Board

Rev. Douglas Parham
Past President, St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition
Board, Vice-Chair

Redditt Hudson (Retired)
NAACP Regional Field Organizer, Region IV
Member, National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers for Justice
Immediate Past Chairman of the Board

Caroline Moss Fisher, M.A. Ed. (In memoriam)
Community Volunteer/ Mo Dept. of Education 2009 Pioneer in Education

Melba Moore (Retired)
Past Director and Commissioner of Health
Past City of St. Louis Department of Health

Khatib Waheed  (Retired)
Strategist and Mental Health Facilitator

Alfred Long
Community Activist and Ordained Minister

Nicole Adewale
President, ABNA Engineering, Inc.

Robin Boyce
Principal, The Hastings Group

Dr. E. Lance McCarthy
Economist & President, Ferguson 1000
Treasurer

BMarcell McClure Williams
Founder, Jewels Inc. & BMarcell Youth Ministries