• Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial Waterfront

Board & Advisors

Board Members & Advisory Committee

Board & Advisors

Board Members

  • Lisa Lane-Treadwell, Foundation Chair, Business Owner
  • Patsy Baker Blackshear, Ph.D., President, Retired Manager
  • Dana Lindsay, Treasurer, Commercial Banking Specialist
  • Vivian Gist Spencer, Ph.D., Secretary, Retired Professor, Anne Arundel Community College
  • Valerie Mills Cooper, Assistant Secretary, Retired Educator
  • Charlestine R. Fairley, Ph.D., CEO, Anne Arundel Community Action Agency
  • Gary Schwerzler, Founding Board Member, Architect 4th St Design Studio
  • Lavenia Calvin, School Educator, Anne Arundel County Public Schools
  • Eric Elston, Ph.D., Director of Diversity & Development, Telegraph Creative
  • Tori A. Moses, Administrative Officer, US Food & Drug Administration

Genealogist & Archivist

  • Carol Carman, Retired Librarian

Advisory Committee

  • David Arthur, President, Kunta Kinte Celebrations
  • Chris Haley, Manager, Maryland State Archives
  • Elsie Chapman, Retired Manager
  • Dr. Henry & Silvia Driver, College Professors
  • Valerie Hall Yancey, Federal Financial Manager
  • Yolanda Perry, Retired Educator
  • Beverly Giles, Retired Educator
  • Judith Cabral, Maryland Project Manager & Past Kunte Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation Program Manager
  • Gregory Stiverson, Ph.D., Retired Historian
  • Sharyn Martin, Retired Federal Manager & Educator
  • Alan Hay, Retired Communications Manager
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HERITAGE

The farthest-back person they ever talked about was a man they called the African.

~ Alex Haley, Roots

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DIVERSITY

Though we are of different tribes and tongues, remember we are the same people!

~ Mandinka Elder, Roots

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PERSEVERANCE

We all suffer.
If a man’s wise, he learns from it.

~ Boteng Bediako (Uncle Pompey), Roots

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