Executive Board, Board of Directors, & Emeriti Board Members

Executive Board

  • Loretta Hargrave

    President

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Rev. Timothy W. Rodgers ABD, M.A.

    1st Vice President

    He retired as Chief Academic Officer and a tenured Assistant Professor of the Liberal Arts from The

    College of New Rochelle in New York. He is gifted with strategically growing organizations, utilizing

    talent, and focusing on outcomes. Much of his effort will be relegated to rightsizing the association’s

    trajectory to 1000 members for our 100th Birthday in 2033. Rev. Timothy Rodgers’ methodology to his

    duties is always calculated and deliberate while encompassing the Joy of Jesus which is deeply rooted in

    family tradition. Positions currently held by Rev. Timothy Rodgers include being a 2nd generation

    Ordained Minister, Sunday School Superintendent, and Minster of Music at the Tabernacle Community

    CME Church of St. Albans Queens. He also serves as 1st Vice President of the New Hempstead

    Democratic Club in New York, which services over 60, 000 residents. Rev. Timothy Rodgers is the 6th

    generation born from the Emma Fox and Simon Leverett union.

  • Carolyn Gordon

    2nd Vice President

    Carolyn attended Lucy C. Laney High School, in Augusta, GA. where she was a cheerleader in high school and the first Black Woman to ever compete in the Miss Exchange Fair Club in Augusta.

    After graduating,Carolyn became the first Black Women Engineer at John P. King Mill.

    Throughout Carolyn’s career, she has amassed numerous leadership certificates, served as Executive Chief Steward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C, and opened her own daycare in Fort Bliss,Texas.

    After Carolyn’s husband retired, they returned to Georgia, Carolyn continued to run her own daycare and worked with Gwinnett County School Systems with the Special Needs Population prior to her own retirement.

    After 35 years of marriage and raising five children, two of her deceased sister’s grandchildren, and being blessed with eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild, God decided to call her Beloved

    Bryan home after a courageous battle with cancer. Carolyn’s strong belief in God has kept her this far as

    she and her twin brother Calvin are also the last surviving siblings of six. The motto Carolyn lives’ by is

    “God is Real,” and Carolyn tries to spread this message in, her daily life.

  • Ashley Williamson-Jackson

    3rd Vice President

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Marva Horsey

    Treasurer

  • Sheila Johnson

    Corresponding Secretary

  • L. Michele Hogan

    Secretary (Acting)

Board of Directors


Carolyn Gordon

Lilborn, GA

 

Lisa leverett

Silver spring, md

 

ashley williamson-jackson

New York, ny

Loretta hargrave

Salisbury, nc

 

sheila lindsay-johnson

damascus, md

L. Michele Hogan

Jamaica, ny

 

Betty Mcclenan

Hollis, ny

Marva Horsey

Bronx, NY

 

brenda reid

august, GA

emeriti board members


norris gunby

durham, nc

welcome mason

lincolnton, ga

sandra byrd peterson

buford, ga

ernestine tucker

augusta, ga