Board of Directors

David Phillips, Chair and Government Liaison
Associate Dean of the Arts, Director of the Arts Institute
Montgomery College–Takoma Park

Diedre L. Badejo
Professor, School of Communications and Design
University of Baltimore

Elizabeth Cannon, Vice Chair
Program Manager, Software Division
Hewlett-Packard Company

Alex Castro
CASTRO/ARTS, LLC
Washington College

Paula Cleggett, Secretary
Affiliate
Global Cultural Strategies

Gordon Cooley
Western Maryland Regional President
PNC Bank

Monique Dixon
Director, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program
Open Society Institute-Baltimore

Albert Feldstein
Public Historian

Michael S. Glaser
Professor Emeritus
St. Mary's College of Maryland

Lauren Dugas Glover*

Silvia Golombek
Senior Vice President
Youth Services America

Dr. Joseph Harris
Professor Emeritus
Howard University

Dr. Lenneal J. Henderson, Jr.
Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration
Schaefer Center for Public Policy
University of Baltimore 

Judi Moore Latta
Professor, American Studies
Interim Executive Director of Communications and Marketing
Howard University

Christopher Leighton
Executive Director
Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies

O.F. Makarah
Filmmaker and Director
Heritage Film Festival, Prince George’s County

Katrina Bell McDonald*
Associate Dean of Multicultural Student Affairs 
Associate Professor of Sociology
The Johns Hopkins University

Adrianne Noe 
Director
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Heather Sarkissian
Product Manager, New Product Innovation
DAP Products, Inc.

Stephen J. Sfekas
Judge
Circuit Court of Baltimore City

Davis Sherman, Treasurer
Partner 
Venable LLP

Lindsay Thompson
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Joseph R. Urgo
President and Professor
St. Mary's College of Maryland

Yolanda Maria Vazquez*
Reporter
Maryland Public Television

David Wilson*
President
Morgan State University

*Gubernatorial appointee