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MAPCS Board of Directors
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| Karen
Barnes |
Karen Barnes is a Leadership Coach for New Leaders for New Schools, where she is currently coaching eight resident principals in urban school settings. She has taught a graduate level class in School Law, and undergraduate level classes including Introduction to Secondary Education and Introduction to Curriculum Planning & Design. Barnes has also worked with Baltimore City Public Schools as specialist with the Office of Staff Development, as a principal for 13 years, and later as a principal Mentor. Prior to working in secondary education, Karen had been associate director of admissions and recruitment for Morgan State University. Karen is a member of the Baltimore City Public Schools Safe School Committee and sits on the advisory board of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Teacher Preparation and the Executive Board of the Maryland Middle School Association. |
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| Melody
Barnes |
Melody Barnes is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Prior to this, she was a principal at The Raben Group, bringing over eleven years of Capitol Hill and Executive Branch experience – most recently as chief counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy – to advise clients on legislative, message and advocacy strategies. Barnes' experience also includes an appointment as director of legislative affairs for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) where she and her staff worked closely with members of Congress on legislation and oversight to protect employees from workplace discrimination and to help educate employers on workplace regulations. Prior to joining the EEOC, Barnes served three years as assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, working closely with members of the committee and their staffs on civil and constitutional rights issues, including passage of both the Voting Rights Improvement Act of 1992 and Religious Freedom Restoration Act. |
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| Mary
Brown |
Mary Brown is the co-founder and executive director of Life Pieces To Masterpieces, Inc. (LPTM). LPTM is an award winning, non-profit, youth development organization located in northeast Washington, D.C. Brown has also been serving as a youth development consultant and trainer for Neighborworks America (a national non-profit community development organization) for over eight years, and serves as a management consultant to several local and national social service groups. Brown received her Bachelor of Science degree from Xavier University and has completed extensive training in organizational capacity building and assessment. Over the years, Brown has been widely honored for her efforts, most recently receiving the Augusta Savage Leadership Award (September, 2005). She also serves on the board of directors for the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. |
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| Pamela
Calliham |
Pamela Calliham is the grandparent of an alumna of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, and has been employed in the publishing of an academic journal in Washington, D.C. for 25 years. |
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| Adrianna
Cofield |
Adrianna Cofield is an alumna of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, currently pursing a Masters Degree at Howard University in Film and Production. She graduated in 2005 from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Arts with a concentration in African African Diaspora. Cofield is an experienced playwright, producer and director and her most recent play, My Soul Has Grown Deep, was featured at the Warehouse Theatre in Washington, D.C. |
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David
Domenici
(Co-Founder) |
David Domenici is a co-founder of the See Forever Foundation. He now serves as chair of the See Forever Board of Directors and is a founding board member of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School Board. He also recently transitioned into serving as the Principal at the Oak Hill School, DC’s secure facility for youth who have been adjudicated delinquent, now currently being operated by the See Forever Foundation. He served as the executive director of See Forever until July 2006 and the school’s principal from its founding until June 2002. He has worked with our target population since the inception of Project SOAR, the predecessor program to See Forever and Maya Angelou in 1995. His work experience includes teaching school full-time in D.C. for one year, an internship at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, two years in finance on Wall Street, and three years in general practice at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He also served for eight years as the volunteer director of DCWorks, a summer pre-college program for at-risk teens from DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Domenici is a 1992 graduate of Stanford Law School, an Echoing Green Fellow (1998), a member of the 1998-1999 Washington Post Principals Leadership Institute, and a 2002 Ashoka Fellow. |
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James
Forman, Jr.
(Chair & Co-Founder) |
James Forman is a co-founder of See Forever. He now serves as Chair of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School Board of Directors and is a founding board member of the See Forever Board. He also assists the organization with capacity-building efforts. Forman is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2001, he served as a fellow at the New America Foundation, where he wrote about issues including juvenile justice and public education. A 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, Forman practiced for over five years as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service, where he represented both juveniles and adults, and trained and supervised other lawyers. Prior to that, Forman served as a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. |
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| Dr.
Anne Kendall |
Anne Kendall spent seven years as a high school history teacher before she returned to school to get a Ph.D. in School Psychology. She currently is a member of a group practice in psychology and education that concentrates on assessment and counseling of children and adolescents. Kendall works with individuals ages 5 to 66 and is also a consultant to various schools in the area. She was a member of the board at The Field School for eight years. |
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| Charles
Lawrence, III |
Charles
Lawrence joined the Georgetown Law Center faculty in 1993
after teaching at Stanford Law School from 1986-92. He
began his teaching career at the University of San Francisco
in 1974 and has visited the faculty of several law schools,
including Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, and the University
of Southern California. Lawrence is best known for his
work in anti-discrimination law, equal protection, and
critical race theory. His most recent book, We Won't Go
Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action (Houghton
Mifflin, 1997), is co-authored by Georgetown Law Professor
Mari Matsuda. Lawrence has received the University of
San Francisco School of Law's "Most Distinguished
Professor Award" and the John Bingham Hurlburt Award
for Excellence in Teaching, presented by the 1990 graduating
class of Stanford Law School. He is a member of the board
of advisors and past-president of the Society of American
Law Teachers. Until recently, Lawrence also served on
the District of Columbia Board of Education. |
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| Peggy Long |
Peggy Long is the mother of a current student at the Maya Angelou Public Charter School – Evans Campus. She has been an employee of the Government for the past 21 years. In addition, she has served as a mentor for teenagers at Clean and Pure Kids Mentoring Organization and as an Executive Board Member for AFSCME Local 1033. |
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| Dr.
Lucretia Murphy |
Lucretia Murphy is a senior program manager for Jobs for the Future (JFF). As part of JFF’s From Margins to Mainstream team, Murphy’s work addresses the need for structural systemic change to increase postsecondary access and success for low-income youth. For JFF’s work in the Boston High School Renewal – Small Schools Initiative, she focuses on two areas: the redesign of high school systems to improve educational opportunities for Boston youth, including dropouts and near dropouts; and building partnerships between Boston’s public schools and higher education institutions in order to increase postsecondary degree attainment or skilled level credentialing. Murphy's work beyond Boston focuses on the educational needs of disconnected youth. Her dissertation, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Biography of the College Choice Process for Inner-City Young Women from Metropolis,” examines the college-going process of youth who have been poorly served by public high schools. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in higher education policy from the University of Michigan, where she conducted research on affirmative action policies, minority student persistent and the role of higher education in advancing the public good. At Michigan she also served as a research associate for the Kellogg Forum for Higher Education and the Public Good. |
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| Justus
Reeves |
Justus Reeves is the parent of a student of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School. Justus is a licensed and ordained minister and received a Master of Divinity degree from the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. in 1989. Reeves currently serves as the Director of Christian Education at the Parker Memorial Baptist Church in Burtonsville, MD. In that role, he is responsible for the development of educational programs for the church and charged with strengthening the church’s commitment to education and social justice. Accordingly, Reeves works with the church’s pastor and other members of its leadership team to support the ongoing programs and services of the church’s Educational Enrichment Institute. |
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Cynthia
Robbins
(Executive Director) |
Cynthia Robbins is the Executive Director of See Forever Foundation and Maya Angelou Public
Charter School (MAPCS) in Washington, D.C. Consistent with her career of more than 15 years of service, her current role is to help SFF/MAPCS achieve our mission to create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional high schools, can reach their potential. Robbins works to create opportunities for all interested individuals and organizations to discover ways that they too could contribute to this mission and become involved with SFF/MAPCS. She has previously served as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, adjunct professor of law, consultant and as a manager in nonprofits dedicated to advocacy, education, leadership support and organizational development. Cynthia has a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Stanford Law School.
She has consistently been a committed civic participant, having founded the East Palo Alto
Community Law Project while a Stanford Law Student. Similarly, Robbins recently concluded a term of service as chair of the Board of Trustees for the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia, is a board member for the historic Lincoln Theatre on U Street, and DC Vote (an organization seeking voting representation in Congress for DC residents). |
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| Dr.
Edith S. Tatel |
Edith Tatel is an education consultant whose practice focuses on new teachers in struggling schools. She formerly served as director of professional development of Teach For America; the assistant professor and director of teacher education at American University School of Education, where she also taught writing in the Department of Literature; and a middle and high school English teacher. Tatel earned a BA and teaching certificate from the University of Michigan, an MA in English from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration from the University of Maryland-College Park. She serves on the Advisory Board of Teach For America-DC, as a reviewer for the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, as chair of the School Performance Committee of MAPCS and as a teaching mentor for the Center for Artistry in Teaching. |
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