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
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

Chris Haley, Manager, Maryland State Archives
Elsie Chapman, Retired Manager
Vivian Gist Spencer, Ph.D., Secretary, Retired Professor, Anne Arundel Community College
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

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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The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial

Located in historic Annapolis, Maryland, the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial symbolizes the triumph of the human spirit. It conveys Alex Haley’s vision for national racial reconciliation and healing, and stresses the importance of strong family connection and the preservation and honoring of cultural history and heritage.

Dedicated to our African ancestors whose names are forever lost in the oceans of time, and to any peoples that arrived in the New World in bondage, whose unpaid labor forged the foundation of this nation’s rise to greatness. Also, to the descendants of these ancestors who strive to foster a nation that celebrates ethnic diversity within the spirit of brotherhood, mutual respect, and understanding.

Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation

The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Maryland in 1995, as a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit profit organization.

Our mission is to spread the vision of Alex Haley, a world that celebrates ethnic diversity while honoring humankind’s common universal experiences.

The Foundation is dedicated to stimulating greater interest in African American culture, history, art, archaeology, anthropology, and genealogy, and to encouraging people of all ethnic backgrounds to search for their own “roots.”

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