Chair:
Craig Powell is a Senior Vice President of Consulting with Delta Associates, LLC. In his role as Director of Real Estate Services, Mr. Powell is primarily responsible for the comprehensive asset management functions for the Department of Labor’s Job Corps real estate portfolio, valued at more than $6 billion. Funded by the United States Congress, Job Corps has been training young adults for meaningful careers since 1964. Job Corps is a no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives. The portfolio comprises 123 educational campuses, located on 7,200 acres of land nationwide. Since 1993, Mr. Powell has conducted real estate market and project feasibility analysis, economic and fiscal impact studies, asset valuation and various consulting assignments throughout the United States.
Prior to joining Delta Associates, LLC, Mr. Powell was a Senior Associate with the Leib Group, LLC where he worked with municipal, quasi-government, and private clients to assess public/private financing strategies and garner public support for urban renewal projects involving commercial, cultural, and recreational land uses. In previous positions during his seven year tenure with Arthur Andersen, LLP, he was a Project Manager in the Business Consulting and Professional Sports Industry Group and a Senior Consultant in the Real Estate Advisory Services Group.
Mr. Powell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture from Princeton University. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia. | |
Vice Chair/Treasurer:
Thomas Buckley is a principal of the Futures Strategy Group, LLC(FSG). Strategic planning and marketing have been the focus of his fourteen years of professional experience. His strategic planning efforts have focused on scenario-based strategic planning for organizations, as well as strategic planning, positioning, and communications related to large, and often complex, programs. Mr. Buckley has consulted to numerous clients in the transportation, security, finance, telecommunications and government sectors. Prior to FSG, Mr. Buckley was a manager with Deloitte Consulting and before that served in marketing capacities for international consumer product firms Frito-Lay, Inc. and Groupe Danone.
Mr. Buckley has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler), a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University, and has been licensed as a private pilot. He and his wife, Shruti, are residents of the District of Columbia.
Secretary:
Brenda V. Johnson is very active in her community and volunteers in a number of capacities. She is President of the Prince George’s County Library Foundation and serves as a local and regional officer in Continental Societies, Inc., an international service organization for disadvantaged children. Ms. Johnson has been an active member of her church for more than 36 years and currently serves as the Chair of the Parish Pastoral Council. Prior to her retirement, Ms. Johnson served as the former Assistant Director of the District of Columbia Public Library System. She presently works with the External Diploma Program at Ballou High School, where she helps adults earn their high school diploma. Ms. Johnson holds Master’s degrees in Library Science from the University of Maryland and Counseling Psychology from the University of the District of Columbia.
She is the very proud mother of two daughters, Mia and Kristi, and one granddaughter Ryian. Ms. Johnson serves as one of our parent/guardian board members.
Trustees:
Carrelle Tiller is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with more than ten years of experience in the field of mental health. Her career has involved work with children, adults, and families throughout D.C., Northern Virginia, and Baltimore. She currently provides therapeutic services in charter schools through Psychological Assessment Services and conducts therapeutic needs assessments for D.C. children with First Home Care; both private agencies. Prior to those positions, Ms. Tiller had a five-year tenure as a social worker at the Hurt Home (formerly the Devereux Children’s Center), a facility that provided residential treatment for children with mental health diagnoses under contract with the D.C. Department of Mental Health. In that position she rose to Clinical Supervisor and Clinical Manager. Ms. Tiller has also worked in Baltimore City Schools, served as a caseworker with mentally ill adults in independent living situations, and provided services for mentally ill adults in group homes. In her career, Ms. Tiller has provided individual, group, and family therapy; coordinated services among multiple government and private agencies; conducted assessments; acted as a case worker; supervised Licensed Graduate Social Workers; managed a clinical department; and supervised graduate-level interns.
Ms. Tiller, a lifelong Washington area resident, currently lives in Northwest D.C. with her husband and son.
Emily Thornell has over twenty years of business development experience with a focus on developing strategic alliances and generating new revenue streams. Ms. Thornell has developed, sold and delivered marketing analytical solutions to Fortune 500 companies including consumer segmentation and profiling, target marketing and messaging, database marketing, market share and share of wallet analyses, satisfaction and loyalty studies, and geo-demographic analysis. Ms. Thornell has experience with both large, established firms (FannieMae, Experian, Claritas, Booz*Allen & Hamilton) and start-up organizations (comScore, BrightStreet.com, IXI, Paragren).
Most recently, Ms. Thornell was employed by Fannie Mae as a senior member of an entrepreneurial team that developed innovative consumer marketing programs focused on increasing minority homeownership. She provided consultative services to internal and external partners to deepen understanding of needs, interests, and behaviors of multicultural consumers as it relates to the home buying process. Services included primary qualitative and quantitative research, outreach strategies, product positioning, consumer messaging and target market selection. Prior to Fannie Mae, Ms. Thornell served as Vice President of comScore’s Financial Services Group. In this capacity, she was responsible for leading the firm’s efforts to develop key financial services-related accounts including developing and executing a comprehensive and competitive alliance strategy and meeting established sales goals.
Ms. Thornell holds an Master’s Degree in Business Administration from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Management from the University of South Alabama. She has also studied International Management at the London School of Economics. Ms. Thornell lives in Washington DC with her husband and son.
Bill Salmon is the founding Principal of Baker Street Properties, a small real estate development company that promotes responsible growth through the repositioning of under utilized residential and commercial properties. Baker Street Properties began operations in 2004 and its first project was the successful repositioning of a six-unit condominium residence in Washington, DC. Currently, Bill is focused on projects in Portland, Maine and Park City, Utah. Mr. Salmon began his real estate career in Washington, DC as a market analyst for Grubb & Ellis, later working as a Senior Consultant with Arthur Andersen’s Real Estate Consulting Group and then as a Senior Associate with CarrAmerica. After being transferred to California in 1998, Mr. Salmon served as the Vice President of Development for Simeon Commercial Properties in San Francisco. His background in real estate includes the development, construction, management, leasing and financing of office, residential, retail and industrial properties in markets throughout the United States.
In addition to his work in real estate, Mr. Salmon has spent many years tutoring, teaching and mentoring children in both Washington, DC and the San Francisco Bay Area as a volunteer with Big Brothers of the National Capital Area, Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, and the Hamilton Family Center in San Francisco.
Mr. Salmon currently makes his home in Portland, Maine after growing up in the Washington Metropolitan Area and spending many years of his professional life working in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Psychology.
Parent Member. The School Reform Act requires each charter school to have two parents/guardians on the Board of Trustees. These parents/guardians serve as representatives for school parents and are liaisons to the Board of Trustees. Parent board members serve for a one year term and are nominated by the Home and School Association. The nomination is confirmed by a vote of the Board of Trustees. A new Parent member will be seated in September 2010.
“When all of us come together, really being ourselves, and sharing our stories and our songs and our goals and our determinations. How rich would we be?” - Thea Bowman |
