Board

Board
Advisory Board

Tim Barfield
President
CSRS Inc.

George Bell
President & CEO, 
Capital Area United Way

John E. Brown
Chief People Officer
GEHA Health DeVry Institute of Technology 
Kansas City

Dr. Treva Brown
Physical Scientist
NASA 
Naval Research Laboratory

Roger Cador
Head Baseball Coach- Retired
Southern University and A&M College

Stephanie Cargile
Public and Government Affairs Manager
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge (Requested)

Lionel R. Collins, Jr.
Independent Lobbyist-Lobbying Consultant
The Livingston Group

Haggai D. Davis, II
Senior Customer Success Manager
General Informatics

Dr. Josh Eachus
Chief Meteorologist
WBRZ TV

Christian Engle
President & CEO
Capital Area YMCA

Barbara Freiberg
State Representative
Louisiana House of Representatives
District 70

Jeff Gould
Senior Vice President, Middle Market/Corporate Banking Group Manager 
Hancock Whitney Bank

Dr. Tina Holland
President,
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

Dr. Zakiya S. Wilson Kennedy
Assistant Dean for Diversity & Inclusion
College of Science
Louisiana State University 

Stan Litow
Professor, Writer, Consultant at Duke and Columbia University
Duke and Columbia University New York University
Armonk, New York, United States 
Emeritus President
IBM International Foundation 

Mike Manning
President & CEO
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

Dr. Brenda Nixon
Co-Director, LSU Cain Center for STEM Literacy
Louisiana State University

Murphy Paul
Chief of Police
Baton Rouge Police Department
East Baton Rouge Parish
City of Baton Rouge

Dianna Payton
President & CEO
YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge

Erich Ponti
Executive Director
Louisiana Asphalt Pavement Association

Lester Ricard
Head Football Coach
Walker High School

Steve Schneider 
Sports Director
WAFB TV (CBS) Baton Rouge

Janet Simmons
President & CEO
Hope Ministries

Dr. Kevin Stephens, MD 
Senior National Medical Director
Optum

Mark Thomas
Deputy Secretary
Louisiana Department of Health

Johan Uvin
Executive Director at UMass Donahue Institute
UMass Donahue Institute Skilling America
Washington, District of Columbia, United States 

Dr. John B. Wiley
President’s Research Professor
College of Sciences, 
Department of Chemistry
University of New Orleans

Corey Wilson
Superintendent
BREC

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