LEADERSHIP
Our Board of Directors
Guided by leaders committed to ethics, equity, and relational healing.
Current Board Members
Reginald Dickson
Chair
Chairman and Executive Vice President, BYW Investment Advisors. Former CEO, Inroads
The Honorable Andrew J. Young
Board Advisor
Former US Ambassador to the UN, Former Mayor of Atlanta
Former US Congressman, Top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Founder, The Andrew Young Foundation
Chief Melinda Heikkinen
Vice President of Student Development and Acting Hiring Manager, Claremont College
Dr. Terrence Roberts
CEO, Roberts Management Consulting
One of the Little Rock Nine
Darnetta Clinkscale
Board of St. Louis Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District
Leon Sharpe
Organizational Consultant, The Praxis Group
Dr. Jameca Woody Cooper
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Criminal Psychologist, Consultant, Educator
Entrepreneur, Author, and Civic Leader
Clinton Normore, EdD, MBA
Chief Diversity Officer and Assistant Professor
A.T. Still University
Robert Litan
Attorney, Economist, Author
Non-resident Fellow, Brookings Institution
Dr. Stefan Bradley
Professor of Black Studies and History
Amherst College
Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould
Managing Director, Power Building
Faith in Action, Former Pastor
Ronald Johnson
Retired Captain, Missouri Highway Patrol
Head of the Unified Forces during Ferguson Protests, Author, CEO, Lodestone Solutions Group, LLC
Clifton Kinnie
Educator, Speaker, Writer, Activist
Founder of Our Destiny
Emeritus Members
Dr. Bernard Lafayette (In Memoriam)
Chairman of the Board
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Judy Bentley
Founder and President, CHIPS Health and Wellness Center. Retired
Past Board Members
Dr. Marva Robinson
Licensed Clinical Psychologist Volunteer and Development
Kymberly Smith Jackson, JD
Attorney Associate Professor, Legal Studies Institute Legal Advisor
Rev. Douglas Parham
Past President, St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition Board, Vice-Chair
Khatib Waheed
Strategist and Mental Health Facilitator
Robin Boyce
Principal, The Hastings Group
Tony Neal
Principal, Educational Equity Consultants
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.
President/CEO Christian Counseling Past Chairman of the Board
Alfred Long
Community Activist and Ordained Minister
Dr. E. Lance McCarthy
Economist & President, Ferguson 1000 Treasurer
Redditt Hudson
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
Past Director and Commissioner of Health Past City of St. Louis Department of Health
Nicole Adewale
President, ABNA Engineering, Inc.
BMarcell McClure Williams
Founder, Jewels Inc. & BMarcell Youth Ministries