David Daniels is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bainum Family Foundation where he leads the foundation’s philanthropic investments in programs and services that align with its mission, while increasing internal organizational effectiveness in the areas of strategic planning, finance and administration. David has been with the foundation since 2012, serving in a variety of leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining the foundation, he was Principal at Takoma Academy in Takoma Park, Maryland, and School Administrator in Ohio at Mount Vernon Academy and Liberty Christian Academy. In addition to his role at the foundation, David serves on the board of the National Center for Family Philanthropy and is a member the Association of Black Foundation Executives and the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. He also volunteers at Beltsville Adventist School, Baltimore Junior Academy and Atlantic Caribbean Union Conference.  He holds a Master of Business Administration, Finance, from Franklin University and a Bachelor’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Washington Adventist University (formerly Columbia Union College). 

Brooke Hisle, LGSW, is the Executive Director of The Fund for Change and The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund. Both foundations are committed to Baltimore City and focus funding on advocacy, community organizing, and systems change work. The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund also prioritizes families with young children ages birth to 3-years old and crisis response, with a focus on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers.

Before joining the foundations, she served as Coalition Development Director with the Maryland Citizens Health Initiative (MCHI) and Health Care for All! Coalition where she authored, Faces of Maryland's Newly Insured, a compilation of 40 personal stories from Marylanders who gained access to health care through new state laws and programs enacted since 2007. Additionally, as the Coalition Development Director, she supported campaigns to increase funding for public health initiatives and educated the public about small business reforms during the local implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Previously, Brooke facilitated a program evaluation for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender on the holistic Neighborhood Defenders Program in Montgomery County and the Park Heights Neighborhood of Baltimore City. Lessons learned from the evaluation were published in the Journal for Forensic Social Work.

Mari Beth Moulton began her career in philanthropy in 2004. She is the Executive Director of the Wright Family Foundation which focuses its giving in education encompassing the zero to Fifth Grade landscape in Baltimore City. During her career, she participated in many initiatives in Baltimore City by serving in a variety of capacities. Currently, she serves on the Baltimore City Childcare Resource Center (BCCCRC) Advisory Board and Baltimore City Early Childhood Advisory Council (since its inception in 2012).

As a member of Maryland Philanthropy Network Mari Beth held leadership positions as the Chair of the Education Affinity Group; participates on various sub-committees of the Board and is a Member of its Board of Directors, currently serving as Treasurer and Chair of the Management & Finance Committee; a member of the Executive Committee and the Governance Committee.

Previous to her role in philanthropy, she was the Administrator of a Baltimore law firm. She holds an Associate degree in Early Childhood Education.

Tracey Barbour-Gillett is a Program Officer for Community Development at the Abell Foundation, where her work focuses on stabilizing and revitalizing neighborhoods, increasing entrepreneurial opportunities, removing barriers to household financial stabilization, and supporting community-led efforts to use green space.

Prior to joining the Foundation, she was project manager at a consulting firm focused on assisting nonprofit organizations with their organizational stability. She has also advocated for state-level implementation of housing and community development policies. Tracey is a graduate of American University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and has a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Baltimore. A native Baltimorean, she resides in Baltimore City with her husband.

Amy Gross serves as the Executive Director of the France-Merrick Foundation which is committed to funding in Baltimore in the areas of civic and culture, community development, education, environment, health and human services, and historic preservation.

Amy served as Program Director at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation where she had a lead role in directing the Library Project, the Foundation’s first proactive partnership with Baltimore City Schools and 30 other partners. Amy’s previous professional positions included community relations and leadership development roles at The ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island.

In her MPN role, Amy chairs the Governance Committee. Amy currently serves on the board of the Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning and has served on other boards such as Pearlstone Center, Art with a Heart and The After-School Institute. She is a graduate of The Greater Baltimore Committee’s 2010 class of The Leadership and the Leadership Maryland in 2017. In 2013, Amy was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women from the Daily Record.

Amy has a master's in social work and a certificate in Jewish Communal Service from the University of Michigan, a certificate in Urban Education from The Johns Hopkins Graduate School of Education, and a BS in public relations from the University of Florida.

As director of the Baltimore Civic Site for The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Talib Horne leads the Foundation’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of young people and families throughout the city.

Horne is a leader with more than 20 years of economic development and nonprofit experience. He most recently served as executive director of Bon Secours Community Works, where he led a strategy to expand economic, educational and health opportunities in several West Baltimore neighborhoods.

He also previously served as vice president of community and economic development at the Living Classrooms Foundation, a nonprofit that provides hands-on education, workforce development, health and violence-prevention programming, and executive director of the East Harbor Development Corporation, which helps low-income Baltimore residents accumulate assets and wealth. Horne is a member of the Baltimore City Planning Commission, helping to oversee major development and land projects.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Business.

Erica joined the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore in 2003 and has served as the Foundation’s Program Officer, Development Director, and Vice President of Community Investment prior to her January 2015 appointment as President and now leads the operation, growth and development of the Foundation. 

Erica holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Salisbury University and a Master of Science in Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland College Park. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Maryland Philanthropy Network and Maryland Nonprofits and serves on the Steering Committee/Board for the Maryland Community Foundation Association.

Erica is a graduate of Shore Leadership (2015), Leadership Maryland (2019) and was recognized by The Daily Record’s Leading Women (2015) and Maryland’s Top 100 Women (2018).

She lives in Laurel DE, with her husband, Jeremy and son, Andrew.

Linda Keely works to reveal the truth, stop the harm, and repair the damage of structural racism. As a founder and trustee of RAW (Redistribute Agency & Wealth) Trust, a private operating foundation, she advocates for the decolonization of wealth and provides resources for the Black community to self-organize. 

With over twenty years of experience in federal, state, and local agencies, Linda actualizes the reform of institutional policies, practices, and perspectives so all people have the equal opportunity to thrive. In her role as the Executive Director of the Baltimore City Office of Child Support Services, she built a culture of trust and accountability. Her work resulted in transformative client experiences, demonstrated by changing feedback from “This place is the absolute worst place in the world” to “Best service I had in 16 years.”

Linda has changed institutional culture and created more effective services in multiple roles and geographies: as the Human Services Deputy Director for Wake County, North Carolina; as the Deputy Program & Operations Manager for the Federal Administration for Children & Families in Washington, DC; and as the Technical Director for Family Self Sufficiency for ICF International based in Virginia. 

Her work is enhanced by her formal education, which includes a Bachelor of Science in Information & Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Baltimore.

In Linda’s personal time, she can be found enjoying motorcycle rides on open country roads, seeking adventure in distant countries, white water, or caves, photographing and painting landscapes that stir her soul, and discovering new ways to stay mindful while continuing the work of advancing racial economic justice.

Franklin N. McNeil, Jr., a Community Consultant with PNC Bank's Greater Maryland, Community Development Banking team, is a 1983 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy. Originally from Memphis, TN, upon graduation from the academy he served in the Marine Corps for 8 years as an artillery officer until 1991. He had many wonderful experiences in the Corps, including the honor of being chosen to be a White House Social Aide during the George H. W. Bush administration.

He then worked for the Baltimore Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for 16 years where the majority of his career was spent in the Community Affairs Department working in the community economic development arena throughout Maryland, West Virginia and the metropolitan DC areas. In February of 2008, Frank became a charter member of PNC’s Greater Maryland Community Development Banking team where his job includes outreach to the community; writing and presenting grants and sponsorships; providing and teaching financial education materials to the community; partnering with non-profit organizations, local municipalities and neighborhood associations to find creative financial solutions to community needs through services and resources; identifying lending and investing opportunities; and participating in strategic development and support of PNC's low- and moderate-income (LMI) branches.

Frank is also very active in his community and either currently serves or has served in board leadership roles with several non-profit organizations that provide health and human services or other related services to the LMI population including the Maryland Philanthropy Network, Chase-Brexton Health Services, Community Law Center, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Baltimore Station, Iron Crow Theater, The Maryland LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce Foundation, USNA Out and he co-chairs the LGBTQ+ Fund at the Baltimore Community Foundation. In 2019, he was selected to be a member of the Governor’s Financial Education and Capability Commission. He is also very active in his faith community at First and Franklin Presbyterian Church here in Baltimore where he met his husband, Paul Fowler in 1995.

Destiny-Simone Ramjohn, Ph.D. is proud to serve as Vice President of Community Health & Social Impact with CareFirst, the largest health care insurer in the Mid-Atlantic region serving 3.3 million members. In this role, Dr. Ramjohn leads philanthropic giving and community engagement where people live, work, play, and seek care to drive measurable impact on health. This purposeful alignment of business impact, social impact, and health impact- with an eye toward equity- enables CareFirst to move health upstream to improve the lives of members and the communities it serves.

Creating conditions that promote health equity are at the core of Dr. Ramjohn’s personal and professional mission. Her work examines the role anchor institutions, such as academic institutions and health systems, may play in generating economic and health impacts that minimize inequities, especially jobs, added years of life from better health, reduced use of emergency departments for primary care, and more. Prior to joining CareFirst, Ramjohn spent five years with Kaiser Permanente developing measurement, evaluation, and high-impact strategies for the financial, material, and human resource investments across the Mid-Atlantic region that directly address the social determinants of health and promote health equity.

Dr. Ramjohn is a strategic disruptor and innovative change agent, enthusiastically implementing new ideas to ensure that large health systems’ policies, programs, and practices are aligned with an equity agenda.

Her research is guided by a strong desire to advance health equity using authentically inclusive, empowering, and evidence-based techniques to bring our nation’s most vulnerable from the margins of our society to the center of dialogue, advocacy, and power. She earned her doctorate in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University.

Shanaysha Sauls was named President and CEO of the Baltimore Community Foundation by its Board of Trustees in January 2018. In her role at BCF, Shanaysha leads strategy, resource allocation, asset development and performance. Her work in the non-profit and private sectors has focused on fiscal responsibility and oversight, operations, fundraising and revenue management and generation, as well as strategic planning and execution.

Trained as an academic, Shanaysha’s professional experiences in the private sector and non-profit sector include local organizations with operating budgets of over $5M to national institutions boasting endowments well over $1B. Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Sauls has served in a number of volunteer civic leadership roles in Baltimore, including as the founding treasurer of a school and in the same role for a nonprofit focused on advocacy and marketing for family-friendly community development. Shanaysha formerly served as chair of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Great City Schools, the nation’s leading advocacy and research organization for school districts in major U.S. cities. During her tenure with these organizations, City Schools finalized complex agreements and strategies to implement the 21st Century Buildings Plan to build more than 25 new schools and successfully lobbied to bring the Annual Meeting of the Council of the Great City Schools to Baltimore in 2018, respectively.

Shanaysha graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maryland, College Park where she was a Banneker/Key Scholar and later earned her Master’s degree and Ph.D. from Duke University where she was a Presidential Scholar and a recipient of a prestigious graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation for her research and potential in the social sciences. Shanaysha currently serves on the boards of Teach for America Baltimore, Healthy Neighborhoods and the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance.

Tanya Jones Terrell is BGE’s Director of Corporate Community Impact and is responsible for overseeing BGE’s workforce development and corporate relations efforts throughout central Maryland with a renewed focus on enhancing the company’s impact on underserved communities. She works with the team to establish key external partnerships, such as those with community organizations, historically Black colleges and universities, and other anchor institutions in Baltimore and central Maryland. Tanya works closely with Governmental & External Affairs and across BGE to establish key leading and lagging performance indicators using data analytics. This will help to ensure that BGE’s community impact strategy closely aligns with the needs and concerns of the communities we serve. Tanya will lead the Corporate Community Impact organization with a focus on substantive, long-term programs with community and business impact.

Tanya’s responsibilities include developing, leading, and executing strategic corporate giving programs, workforce development initiatives and developing and managing strategies. Tanya has a wealth of experience in the nonprofit and education sectors, most recently serving as chief operating officer of The Leadership. Additionally, she served as executive director of the South Baltimore Learning Center and in leadership roles with Associated Black Charities, Empower Baltimore Management Corp. and other nonprofit organizations focused on workforce development.

Tanya holds a Master of Science in Counseling and Development from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Framingham State University. She serves on the board of directors for the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and is also a member of the advisory boards for the UMBC School of Public Policy and My Brother’s Keeper – Baltimore.