Nonprofit Management

I have uplifted the programming, community organizing, educational services, health navigation, operations, communications, and fundraising of many nonprofit organizations over the last 30-plus years.

Currently, I am the Executive Director of Wisdom Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the Director (CEO) of the Baltimore Wisdom Project (BWP).

I was a Mindful Movement Instructor II in the Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute charged with ensuring the fidelity of mindfulness and mindful movement interventions on a team of practitioners for a research study at Franklin Square Elementary/Middle School.

I began working as Guy C. McElroy's curatorial assistant at the Bethune Museum and Archives in the middle 1980s. During that time I also began helping to arrange and market the annual mass baptisms and other events for the Gospel Spreading Network.

During the 1980s, after becoming a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, I also took on extensive work as a professional editor—editing and copywriting many different kinds of texts and multimedia for businesses and individuals as well as grant-writing for many fundraising initiatives.

After a brief stint as an intern at the Folger Library, I became a seasonal associate for several departments at Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, including the operations, marketing, and education departments. I was promoted to a half-time staff writer position at the Shakespeare Theatre Company where I edited, wrote, and researched for the managing director, the director of education, and the dramaturg. 

Soon after I began working part-time as a senior writer, media strategist, and outreach organizer for Vernon N. Dobson's team within BUILD: Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development where I helped design the communications materials and the outreach plans for many public policy and justice-action campaigns. 

In the early 1990s, I was one of the managers on a team tasked with ensuring the fidelity of applied health research in peacemaking and mindfulness in an after school program at the Cecil-Kirk Recreation Center in Baltimore City sponsored, in part, by Coppin State University's Allied Health and Urban Arts programs. I also worked as a healing facilitator for many after-school programs at the Project RAISE program.

In the late 1990s, I was one of five Program Managers for an initiative called Children’s Behavioral Health Interventions, a joint program of St Joseph's Hospital, Hahnemann Hospital, Lewis Ada H Middle School, and four other under-served schools in the greater Philadelphia region. This initiative attempted to study the use of mindfulness and restorative practice to transform the behavioral health and wellness of students within predominately African American, historically under-resourced schools. 

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, I worked half-time as a senior staff writer and project supervisor at the Institute for Survey Research and as a staff writer and development-fundraising manager for Eva Gholson's Sybil Dance & Music Company.

I was a seasonal stage manager, assistant stage manager, or production associate (with a focus in light-board management) at many venues like the Church Street Theatre, the 8th Avenue Theatre, and Dance Place.

At Oberlin College I coordinated the Fall Forward and Spring Back concerts for one academic year.

At Goucher College, I was the director of operations for the writing center and one of the college's Jesse Ball DuPont Scholars where I helped devise many diversity-and-inclusion projects. 

I also served as the director of engagement for Many Voices, a LGBTQ justice advocacy organization; the director of operations for the Inner Harbor Project, a youth advocacy organization; and a consultant for resolving workplace conflicts and disputes for scores of organizations over the last 30-plus years.