Board & Staff
Leadership
Board of directors
Dr. Herbert Miller, II
Chair
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Rev. Charles Armstrong
Vice Chair
Church Administration Executive and Staff Pastor, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
Kia Chavious, JD
Secretary
Assistant District Attorney at North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts
Matthew Marceron
Treasurer
President and CEO, Kaplan Early Learning Company
Rev. Dr. Alvin T. Armstead, Jr.
Senior Pastor, United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church
Chelsea Baldwin
Head Start Policy Council Representative
Abby Catoe
Founder, Executive Director, Annie's Hope Center for Growing & Healing
Dr. Shelton Charles
VP, Transfer Excellence & Success
Forsyth Technical Community College, Department for Early Childhood Education
Pamela Dockery-Howard, MD
Medical Director Winston East Pediatrics
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Daisy Rodriguez
Executive Director
Forsyth Backpack Program
Alisa Starbuck, DNP
President
Brenner Children's Hospital and The Birth Center
Danna Wortman, CPA
Vice President Finance & Human Resources
ImageWorks Display & Marketing Group (Ret.)
Foundation Board of directors
Virginia Pleasants, JD
Secretary
Business Law and Estate Planning Attorney, Senior Counsel, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Matt Carey, MBA
Treasurer
U.S. Head of Insurance Solutions, New York Digital Investment Group
Thomas R. Adams
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Reynolds American, Inc. (Ret.)
Kara Calderon
Head of Sustainability & Community Engagement
Reynolds American, Inc.
EJ Cardenas
President & Co-Founder, FEDlogic
D. Elwood “Woody” Clinard
Community Advocate
Ashley Givens, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Art History, Wake Forest University