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IBW Board of Directors

PRESIDENT

Dr. Ron Daniels, Distinguished Lecturer, York College, City University of New York, Queens, NY

BOARD CHAIRPERSON

Rick Adams, Co-Convener Western Pennsylvania Black Political Assembly, Pittsburgh, PA

TREASURER

Richard Jones, Executive Dean, Office of Accreditation, Quality Assurance and Institutional Effectiveness, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York

SECRETARY

Mary France-Daniels, Educator, Community Activist, New York, NY

Leonard Dunston, President Emeritus, National Association of Black Social Workers, Durham, NC
Kinaya Sokoya, Chief Executive Officer, Anne Arundel Community Action Agency, Annaoplis, MD
Jacqui Patterson, Executive Director, Women of Color United, Silver Springs, MD
Hulbert James, Executive Director, Diasporic Project, Miami, FL

MEMBERS

Greg Akili, National Field Director Social Security Works Campaign, Los Angeles, CA
Kareem A. Aziz, Director, Office of Institutional Research and Planning, Sojourner-Douglass College, Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Leslie Alexander, Associate Professor Political Science, Ohio State University,Columbus, Ohio
Mark Batson, Executive Director, Morehouse Medical Associates, Atlanta, GA
Dr. Jeanette Davidson, Program Director, African and African American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Folami Harris, Public Health and Development Specialist, Washington, DC
Dr. Jemadari Kamara, Director, Center for African, Caribbean and Community Development, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA
State Senator Constance Johnson, Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Karin Stanford, Director of Black Studies Dept at the University of California, Northridge California
Michelle Kim Thomas, President and Chairman KHEMETCOM Entertainment Corporation
Sandino Thompson, Executive Director, “It’s My Community,” Oklahoma City, OK
Tara J. Young, Founder and Lead Blogger for hiphopadvocate(dot)org, Philadelphia, PA
Don Rojas, President/CEO of Progressive Communications Online, founder of The Black World Today and former communications director of the NAACP.

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