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NABSE Board of Directors

NABSE is proud to present our Board of Directors.
To learn more about a director, please click on his or her name.

President

President-Elect

Carrol A. Thomas, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Beaumont ISD
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Bernard Hamilton, Ed. D.
Jefferson County Public Schools
Title I Administrator
Louisville, KY,
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Recording Secretary

Treasurer

Marietta English
President
Baltimore Teachers Union
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Doreen BarrettDoreen E. Barrett, Ph.D.
CEO
D.E. Barrett & Associates
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District Administration

Corporate Representative

Ronald WilliamsDr. Ronald Williams
Assistant Superintendent/Education Accountability
Detroit Public Schools
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Tai Jones-Chapman Tai Jones Chapman
Senior Enterprise Sales Executive
Desire2Learn
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Governance in Education
Higher Education

Ellis A. Alexander
St. Charles Parish Public Schools
School Board Member
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Betty J. Goyens, Ed.D.
Faculty-Doctoral Programs-School of Advanced Study
University of Phoenix
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Program Development Research & Evaluation

Instruction & Instructional Support

Gail Clark Dickson
Consultant
Association for Supervision & Curriculum (ASCD)
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Gerri H. Bohanan
BTU Liaison for Support Services
Coppin State University

Local School Administration

Special Projects Administration

Keith D. Greer
Partner, The Principal's Office, LLC
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Dwight A. Bonds
Granada Hills, CA
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Retired Educators

Superintendents

Lois Hopson Reeder
Washington, DC
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Dr. Fadhilika Atiba-Weza Dr. Fadhilika Atiba-Weza, Ed. D.
CEO
DynaTeck Solutions
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Parents

Mid-West Affiliate Representative

Anthony White, Sr.
Parental Involvement Consultant
Newark Public Schools
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Betty Maceo
Guidance Counselor
Adams Junior High School
Sandusky City Schools
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Northeast Representative

West Representative

T. Russell HopewellRussell Hopewell
President
Maryland State Alliance of Black School Educators
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Sandy Carpenter-StevensonSandy Carpenter-Stevenson, Ed.D.
President
California State Alliance of Black School Educators
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Southwest Affiliate Representative

Southeast Affiliate Representative

Kimberly Mitchell-McLeod, Ph.D.
Houston Area ABSE President
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Geneva Stark Price, Ph.D.
Specialist/Coordinator, MTRP/FEA Programs
Jefferson County Public Schools
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C.D. Moody Research & Development Institute

International Representative

Wesley L. Boykin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director of Research and Policy, National Center for Educational Achievement, Austin, Texas
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Jacqueline Smith-Herriott
President
Nova Scotia Alliance of Black School Educators
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Executive Director

Government Relations and Legislative Liaison to Board

Quentin R. Lawson
NABSE
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LaRuth Gray, Ph.D.
Scholar in Residence, New York University
Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
email: laruth.gray@nyu.edu

Immediate Past President

Legal Counsel

Deborah Hunter-Harvill, Ed.D.
Superintendent, Westwood Heights School District
Flint, MI
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Derrick Humphries
Humphries and Brooks, LLC
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Jacqueline Smith-Herriott

A teacher who specialized in elementary and junior high education and French language training was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jacqueline was given up for adoption at two-months-old by her birth mother and ordered in the care of the Children's Aid Society of Nova Scotia (CAS). She spent the next 21 years placed in the care of White foster parents. After being emancipated from Nova Scotia's child welfare system at age 18, she fought for an extension of her ward ship to pursue higher education and at 21, left Nova Scotia's foster care system. Smith-Herriott enrolled in Nova Scotia Teachers College (the only institution of its time which specialized solely in teacher training in Canada) and Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) earning her BEd with a focus in classical languages and pursuing a Masters in Education.

Ms. Smith-Herriott's educational career spans 20 years in Nova Scotia as a classroom teacher and vice principal who widely acknowledges the late Drs. Barbara A. Sizemore and Asa G. Hilliard, III as the greatest teachers she has ever known and became acquainted with through her membership in NABSE. Ms. Smith-Herriott has presented across the province advocating for Black children in Nova Scotia in foster care and has been a long-standing member (20 years) of the Black Educators Association (BEA) and is a founding member towards the establishment of the Nova Scotia Alliance of Black School Educators (NSABSE) - a coalition of Nova Scotian Black educators living throughout North America which brings forward an educational agenda with strong ties to African Americans.

Smith-Herriott is the former Assistant Director-Programs, BEA and Acting Executive Director of the Association. During her time with BEA, she authored the Regional Educators Program (REP) Provincial Spelling BEE: an annual community-based activity outside the province's regular school curriculum. Its purpose is "to focus on English language basics; foster learning of African Nova Scotian students studying the English language and introduce and encourage students to compete in regional, national and international finals." May 2011 marked the fifth year for this province-wide competition and program.

Ms. Smith-Herriott is a sub-scribing life member to NABSE; serves as International Regional Representative; is a vice principal within the Halifax Regional School Board and is the President of the Nova Scotia local chapter - Nova Scotia ABSE.