Richard Krieg is President and CEO of The Horizon Foundation and also serves as a Foundation Trustee. He is former Health Commissioner and First Deputy Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago. The Chicago Department of Health is the nation's largest local health department, with a staff of approximately 2,000 people and an $85 million annual budget. Its fifty-two general and specialty clinics make up the largest ambulatory care system in the Chicago, handling one million patient visits annually.

He is former Executive Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs at Roosevelt University in Chicago, an urban policy and community action center. Richard formerly served as Associate Dean of The University of Illinois School of Public Health. For four years, he held the position of Director of Policy Analysis and Planning for the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council. He was a Peace Corps volunteer, working in the community health area in central Brazil.

He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago where he specialized in health policy and administration. He holds a masters degree from the University of Chicago's Harris Graduate School of Policy Studies. He is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Brookings Institution Advanced Studies Program.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. He is a member of the Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism in Maryland and chaired the statewide Cancer Treatment Task Force established by the Maryland General Assembly in 2001. He is Chairman of the Howard County Community Emergency Response Network, the Commission on the Future of Howard Community College and the Strategic Planning Committee of Howard County General Hospital. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Peace Corps Association. Richard is a recipient of the Illinois Department of Public Health's "Award of Merit" and the Illinois Public Health Association's "Presidential Award" for 1990. Under former Illinois Governor James Edgar, he was awarded the "1992 Governor's Award for Unique Achievement" for his chairmanship of the League of Woman Voters' statewide ElderHealth Project.

Robert N. Sheff, M.D. prior to his retirement in September 2004, served as the Chairman of the Medical Management Group of the Patuxent Medical Group since April 1994 and previously served as PMG President from February 1995 to August 2000. Dr. Sheff also served as President of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland's HMO's from February 1995 to March 1998. From June 1994 to September 1995 he was BCBSM Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Quality Management, while in 1993 he acted as Medical Director for the BCBSM Division of Medical Affairs.

Since 1977 Dr. Sheff has been a radiologist with BCBSM's staff model HMO, the Columbia Medical Plan, which was merged into FreeState Health Plan on April 1, 1998. He has been the Chief of Radiology since 1977 and one of the Medical Directors since 1984. Prior to joining Patuxent Medical Group, Dr. Sheff was in private practice at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Sheff received his B.A. from U.C.L.A. in 1965 and his M.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1968. His post doctoral training was at Johns Hopkins, U.C.L.A. and in the U.S. Public Health Service.

Dr. Sheff currently serves on the board of directors of Humanim, and is the chairman of Howard County General Hospital's Medical Review/Ethics Committee. He previously served on the board of directors of The Columbia Foundation, Leadership Howard County and the United Way Partnership of Howard County. Dr. Sheff also served as the 1998 Campaign Chairperson for United Way Community Partnership of Howard County.

Louis Hutt is a native of St. Louis, Missouri where he attended Washington University. Upon earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1976, he joined Ernst and Young Certified Public Accountants. As a Certified Public Accountant he participated in audits of both small and large corporations including several Fortune 500 companies. In 1978, while with Ernst and Young, Louis served as the firm's visiting professor of Accounting at Morgan State University for one year. Louis returned to Morgan as an adjunct member of the Accounting faculty in 1982, and remained for six years.

Louis graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in 1982. As a law student he interned with the Securities Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office and clerked for the Honorable Judge Robert Bell on the Circuit Court of Baltimore.

After graduating from law school, Louis established The Law Office of Louis G. Hutt, Jr. and joined with W. Charles Bennett, CPA, a classmate from Washington University to start the Certified Public Accounting firm of Bennett, Hutt and Company. The primary focus of the law office has been to provide representation in connection with business transactions, tax controversies and contract negotiations. Bennett, Hutt and Company provides management advisory services to private closely held businesses including business planning, business acquisitions, tax planning, financial accounting and management training. The firm has offices in Columbia, Maryland and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Louis actively participates in several notable community and civic endeavors. In 2002 he completed two terms on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Washington University, and was recently recommended to the Maryland State Senate as a Trustee to the Howard County Community College. He has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as Accounting Advocate of the Year; NAACP of Howard County with the Minority Business Award; Distinguished Alumni of the School of Business at Washington University; and recipient of the Meritorious Service Award for Community Service from the Columbia Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Louis is a weekly guest on WOL's morning radio talk show in Washington D.C. discussing tax law issues and developments affecting individual taxpayers and businesses.

Louis is married to Nellie A. Hutt, Esq. The Hutt's have three children and reside in Ellicott City, Maryland. Their oldest daughter, Mahoganey, is currently a second year student at the University of Maryland School of Law.

T. James Truby is the founder and president of the project management firm of Synthesis Incorporated. His practice focuses on managing all stages in the development of health, education, religious, and environmental buildings and facilities, from conception through the completion of construction.

Mr. Truby received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from American University. After two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia, Mr. Truby served as Manger of Facility Planning for the National Institute of Mental Health's pioneering Community Mental Health Program.

As Manager of Policy Planning for the Maryland Department of Transportation, Mr. Truby authored the Department's Action Plan for considering social, economic, environmental, and historical factors in the planning and design of the state’s transportation facilities. Moving to the Department's Aviation Administration, he served as Director of Planning and Development of BWI Airport and then Maryland Aviation Administrator with overall responsibility for BWI's renaissance and substantial growth and development during the first half of the 1980s.

Mr. Truby is a resident of Ellicott City, MD, and has participated in numerous community activities since moving to Howard County in 1970. He served as president of the Economic Forum, and was a member of the Adequate Public Facilities Commission, the organizing committee of Vision Howard County, and the board of Winter Growth. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Howard Community College and is a member of the BWI Airport Development Council.

Dr. David Anderson was born in Washington, DC the son of a Baptist preacher. In 1984, empty and dissatisfied after years of seeking fulfillment in the ways of the world, David finally committed his heart and life to Jesus Christ at age 18. At that time, God gave him a powerful desire and calling to preach.

After 2 years at a local DC college where he became the first black president of the student body, he transferred to Moody Bible Institute.  During his first year there David served as class president, then as student body president the following year. He became the first African American in the history of Moody to be elected to this position as well as to be reelected and complete a second term. 

At age 20, while continuing his studies, he obtained his license to preach and accepted the position of Assistant Pastor at the Near North Baptist Church in the inner city of Chicago.   David also served as Assistant Chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserve for eight years.

After graduating with a B.A. in Pastoral Studies with a Greek Language Emphasis, he served full-time on staff at Willow Creek Community Church (15,000 strong in attendance then) as a pastoral intern.  During this period David served on the Alumni Board of Directors for the Moody Bible Institute where he was elected to serve as President of the Board during his second term. 

His internship at Willow Creek in conjunction with his quality education and ample leadership experience prepared him in fulfilling his dream to plant and pastor a racially integrated church. In 1991, David formed a church planting team, which brought him to Columbia, MD, where his vision for an integrated, non-denominational Church in the DC area was finally realized. 

In 1992, Bridgeway Community Church was born, which David Anderson currently pastors.  David completed his master's degree at Moody Graduate School in 1998 and his doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Religion at Oxford Graduate School in 2001.  He has advanced to the level of Fellow in the Oxford Society of Scholars in 2003 toward a second doctorate.  He currently serves on the board of the Friends of Zambia, a non-profit organization comprised of business, civil society and philanthropic leaders whose mission is to promote knowledge and understanding of Zambia in order to encourage business investment and development, and support for education and welfare among Zambia's people.  He previously served on the board of the Columbia Foundation, a community foundation that is all about neighbors helping neighbors and making it possible for people to give back to the communities where they live and work and to meet the current and future needs of their own communities.

David Anderson is the founder and senior pastor of Bridgeway Community Church, a multicultural congregation located in Columbia, Maryland.  He is the founder and president of the BridgeLeader Network, a multicultural leadership consulting organization, and an instructor of cultural diversity at the University of Phoenix, Maryland campuses.  Dr. Anderson received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Moody Bible Institute and his Doctor of Philosophy in the Sociological Integration of Religion and Society at Oxford Graduate School.  He has co-authored a book titled Letters Across the Divide: Two Friends Explore Racism, Friendship and Faith (Baker, 2001), which has generated media interest nationwide through exposure on over 2000 radio stations and television appearances, which include CSPAN, Black Entertainment Television (BET), TBN, PAX TV, and ABC promoting his message of diversity.  His new book, Multicultural Ministry: Finding Your Church's Unique Rhythm (April 2004) highlights his messages and lessons in doing multicultural ministry.  Dr. Anderson hosts a live radio show, called Reconciliation Live on the largest Christian radio station in the nation's capital.  He is a highly sought after conference speaker, lecturer, and consultant for large corporations on local, national and international levels.  Dr. Anderson and his wife Amber reside in Ellicott City, Maryland with their three young children, Isaiah, Luke, and Asia.

Since 2005, David  Barrett has been a teacher of secondary mathematics in the Howard County Public School System.  He teaches algebra in the Gateway program, the high school component of the Homewood Center, the county's only alternative school.

Barrett returned to teaching after a 30-year career in the information technology (IT) industry, starting as a computer programmer and ending his IT career as a vice president.  During this period, he worked on or led teams that programmed sophisticated weapons systems for the U.S. Navy. In 1976, he was part of a three-person team that designed and developed the approach landing test (ALT). The ALT was a training tool that simulated the landing of the space shuttle and was used to train the ground crew years before the first shuttle mission.

Subsequently, he worked for management consulting firm, Booz Allen and Hamilton and computer manufacturers, Data General  and Wang Laboratories where he entered management.  His last position was with Houston Associates, Inc. where he was vice president of group that designed and implemented high performance networks used in war gaming and mission-critical military endeavors.  Barrett made several trips to Bosnia where these systems were first implemented in support of the UN peace keeping force.

He serves on the boards of the Alpha Foundation of Howard County, the Harriet Tubman Foundation and the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society as chair.  For 10 years, he served on the board of the Howard County Library. He is also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and is an active member of its education committee.  He is co-founder of the Alpha Achievers, an academic club of high-school African American males who have a 3.0 or higher GPA.  He is a percussionist in the Ellington-Adderly African American  Community Jazz Ensemble, another educational program of the Fraternity.

Barrett was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where he attended public school. He spent one year at Delaware State College and then transferred to Rutgers University, Newark from which he graduated with a degree in mathematics in 1965. 

After college, he taught mathematics for one year in Newark before being lured to Pittsfield, MA to work for General Electric Ordnance Department. He was still in Pittsfield when he watched live television footage of the July, 1967 Newark uprising.  Moved by what he saw and wanting to help make a difference  in the city of his birth, he moved back to Newark three months later.
 
He soon became very active in Newark politics, first as part of the local black power movement (United Brothers and the Congress Of African Peoples) that spearheaded the election of Kenneth A. Gibson as Newark's first black mayor and  later as a candidate for Freeholder and the state assembly.

Two years after moving to Maryland in 1974, he earned a masters degree in computer science from Howard University.

Barrett is married to Saundra Barrett and has three adult sons the youngest of whom is a 2008 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.  He has lived in Columbia since 1977.

Lynn Coleman, CPA, MBA has worked in higher education for over twenty years and is currently Vice President of Administration and Finance at Howard Community College (HCC). In her HCC role, Lynn oversees all finance areas of the college, human resources, plant operations, security, capital projects, risk management and auxiliary services. Prior to her experience in higher education, Lynn worked at The Rouse Company and in public accounting. Lynn is active in NACUBO (National Association of College and University Business Officers) where she currently is serving as Secretary of the Board. She has also served on the EACUBO (Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers) Board of Directors. She was Chair of the NACUBO Community College Planning Council and the EACUBO Two-Year College Committee. Lynn is a past-president of the Maryland Association of Community College Business Officers and is also a past member and Treasurer of the Board of the Maryland chapter of the American Council on Education Network for women leaders in higher education. In addition, to activities in higher education, Lynn is an active member of the Community Emergency Response Network, where she co-chaired the Continuity of Operations Committee. She was a member of the Howard County Spending Affordability Committee. She is on the Board of Leadership Howard County. Lynn Is active in her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, where she works on a number of community service projects through the local chapter.

Shirley Collier is CEO, of Optemax, LLC, an exclusive licensee of mobile wireless optical technologies from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. For over 20 years, she has worked in the product technology, university, government, systems integration and financial services industries in a variety of technical and managerial positions.

She was founder and CEO for 15 years of Paragon Computer Services, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries, Managing Associate with an international consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and prior to that established and managed end user computing for a $17 billion regional bank. Shirley has an undergraduate degree in Marketing with a Master’s degree in Management.

She has published over 50 articles and spoken extensively on aligning business and Information Technology, IT security/governance, strategic planning and e- commerce. She serves on an advisory board of BB&T Bank, is the immediate past chair the Board of the Howard County Economic Development Authority, currently serving on the Technology Leadership Consortium, and the Howard County Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Business/Education Coalition, and is a founding member and past President of the International Alliance of Technology Integrators. She formerly served on the Boards of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce (chairing the Education and Nominating Committees), the Lazarus Foundation and the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County (and recipient of their Spirit Award). Shirley serves on the Howard County Superintendent's Advisory Council for Educational Partnerships chairing the Technology Advisory Council, and on the Board of the Center for Women in Information Technology at UMBC, chairing the International Committee.

Shirley has served on numerous commissions and committees including the County Executive and County Council’s Compensation Committee, the Columbia Town Center Rotary annual fundraisers (for 7 years), The Heart Ball (chair for two years), the EDA's Incubator Committee (chair for 2 years), and the Howard Community College’s Commission on the Future. She is a graduate of Leadership Howard County and was named Alumnus of the Year in 1996.

Shirley received the 1999 Woman of the Year award from the Business Women's Network of Howard County. She was named the Leadership Howard County's 1997 Distinguished Alumnus and was awarded the EBO Outstanding Woman in Business award in 1997. Shirley was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 1996 and in 2000 and was named to the Circle of Excellence in 2005 by The Daily Record. She was named as one of the Arthritis Foundation's Women of Distinction, and in 1995 founded "Computer Mania,” a free computer symposium for girls in the public school system to foster confidence in technology, mathematics and science, now being held worldwide. Shirley was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame by the Howard County Women's Commission. In 2004 she received the YWCA’s Special Leader award for leadership and economic empowerment, and the Children's Advocate Award by Leadership Howard County. Shirley and her company also were awarded the Torch Award for ethical business practices by the Better Business Bureau of Greater Baltimore.

Dr. Mary Ellen Duncan has served more than 25 years in higher education, including her current position as president of Howard Community College (HCC) in Columbia, Maryland (1998 to present).

Dr. Duncan seeks to improve economic health and vitality both regionally and globally.  She served as a director on the boards of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore, and Vision Howard County.  She is a board member of the Continuous Quality Improvement Network, and the board of directors of Community Colleges for International Development. Additionally, she served on the congressionally-created National Commission for the Advancement of Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in the Advancement of Science, Engineering, and Technology.  The Commission made recommendations to the U.S. Congress and President for increasing the pool of typically underrepresented groups in technology fields.

Dr. Duncan received the Business and Humanitarian Award from the Howard County Chamber of Commerce in 2000.  That same year, she received the Business Associate of the Year award from the Columbia Chapter of the American Business Women's Association.  The Baltimore Business Journal named Dr. Duncan one of 25 educators, and the only community college official in its Who's Who in Higher Business Education for "changing the face of higher business education in Greater Baltimore."  President Duncan is a graduate of the Leadership Maryland Class of 2001 and was named by The Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women for 2002.  In 2004, Dr. Duncan received the Wylene Burch Award for Distinguished Leadership from the Howard County Center for African-American Culture and was awarded the Foundation’s Richard G. McCauley Leadership Award.  In 2005, the Howard County Soroptimists honored her with the Making a Difference for Women Award.  Most recently, Dr. Duncan has been named the Northeast Regional CEO by the Association for Community College Trustees and a Business Leader of the Year for 2006 by the Howard County Chamber of Commerce.

She holds a Ph.D. in Administration/Curriculum Development from The University of Connecticut.

Marianne Schmitt Hellauer, Esq., is a partner with the law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP in Baltimore, MD. Her practice is concentrated primarily in the areas of estate planning; estate, gift, and income taxation; charitable giving; tax planning for closely-held businesses; estate and trust administration; and planning for tax-exempt organizations.

Mrs. Hellauer received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 1977. In 1980, she received her Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she was Comments Editor of the Law Review. She is a Fellow in The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a past Chair of the Estates and Trusts Section of the Maryland State Bar Association. In addition, she is the legislative liaison for the State of Maryland with the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law.

Mrs. Hellauer, a resident of Ellicott City, MD, participates in numerous community activities. In addition to the Horizon Foundation, she currently serves on the Boards of Trustees of The Howard County Conservancy, Inc., and The B & O Railroad Museum, Inc.

John B. Isbister is a partner with the Maryland law firm of Tydings & Rosenberg LLP.  He concentrates his practice in the litigation of business and commercial disputes.

Mr. Isbister is an active leader in the legal profession.  He currently serves as a Division Director of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association.  Mr. Isbister is a founder and program chair of the nine annual National Institutes on Class Actions presented by the American Bar Association.  He is a Past President of the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.  In 2006 he received a “Champion of Justice” award from the Equal Justice Council for his work helping the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau provide access to justice for low-income people.

Mr. Isbister is a resident of Ellicott City and has been a volunteer and leader in Howard County community affairs since 1979.  He previously served on the boards of Howard County General Hospital, Leadership Howard County, the United Way Partnership of Howard County, the Howard County Police Foundation, and the Howard County YMCA.  He currently serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland School of Law.

Advising clients since 1982, Bob Jeffrey manages a team of seven people with over $435 million under management. Areas of expertise include designing, managing, and monitoring diversified investment portfolios for high net worth families; financial planning; and qualified retirement plans. Mr. Jeffrey advises individuals, foundations, and corporations and recently celebrated his 16th anniversary at Legg Mason where he is a member of the prestigious Advisory Council. He is a frequent speaker on topics of investment management and team-building.

A native of Baltimore, Mr. Jeffrey earned his BA and MA degrees from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has studied policy sciences at UMBC.

Mr. Jeffrey chairs the Investment Committee of Family & Children's Services of Central Maryland, and serves on the boards of CareFirst BlueChoice Inc., CapitalCare Inc., and the Howard Community College Endowment Fund (Asst. Treasurer) . He also serves on The Horizon Foundation's Board of Trustees (Investment and Social Services Committees) and is a past president of the Jim Rouse Entrepreneurial Fund (JREF). Mr. Jeffrey is a 1991 graduate of Leadership Howard County and a 2000 graduate of Leadership Maryland. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Hugh O'Brian Maryland Leadership Seminar Foundation and is a past President of its Board of Trustees.

A resident of Columbia since 1977, Mr. Jeffrey is married to Bach Tran-Jeffrey, a dentist practicing in Columbia, and has two sons, Alexander, who attends Washington Univ. in St. Louis, and Zachary, a student at McDonogh School.

Malynda Hawes Madzel is President of Business Match, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in the sale and marketing of small businesses.

Until recently, she was President of Custom Telemarketing Services, Inc., which for 18 years operated as an outbound business-to-business telemarketing service agency.

Ms. Madzel has won numerous awards, including the Small Business Administration’s Women’s Business Advocate 1995 (First Runner Up) and Minority Business Advocate (First Runner Up) 1997, the Maryland State Governor’s Award for Small Business and the Martin Luther King Holiday Commission Award for Business in Howard County, Maryland. She was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1996, 2000 and in 2002 was named to the Circle of Excellence as a three-time honoree. In 2003, Ms. Madzel was named the Woman of the Year of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)-Baltimore Regional Chapter in 2002.

In addition, Ms. Madzel was an inductee into the Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame, 1998; received the Spirit Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the Black and Hispanic MBA Association of the Robert H. Smith School of Business (University of Maryland); was awarded the Howard County Economic Development Business Commitment Award in 1998 and 2001; and was named one of five Maryland Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland in 2001.

Ms. Madzel gives considerable time to pro-bono community activities. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Columbia Foundation and is a Trustee of the Horizon Foundation. She is past president of the Howard County (Maryland) Chamber of Commerce and has served on the Boards of Trustees of the Columbia Festival of the Arts and the Howard County Economic Development Authority. She is a graduate of Leadership, Howard County.

One of her proudest accomplishments was serving as a member of the Howard County Delegation to the National Civic League’s All America City Awards in Atlanta in June of 2001, where Howard County was named All America County.

Ms. Madzel has been a Howard County resident since 1984.

Floyd J. Malveaux, MD, PhD is Executive Director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN).  Dr. Malveaux, a nationally recognized expert on asthma and allergic diseases,  is Emeritus Dean of the College of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at Howard University.  A native of Louisiana, Dr. Malveaux earned a B.S. degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, a M.S. degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, a Ph.D. degree in Microbiology and Public Health from Michigan State University,. and the Doctor of Medicine degree, with honors, from Howard University College of Medicine.

Dr. Malveaux received specialty training in Internal Medicine at the Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia and subspecialty training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.  He was member of the faculty at Howard University where he established the Conjoint Training Program in Allergy and Immunology and the faculty of Johns Hopkins University where, as a member of the Division of Clinical Immunology, he initiated studies on asthma mortality and morbidity.  Dr. Malveaux served as Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at Howard, and became Dean in 1995 of the Howard University College of Medicine.  From July 1996 until 2001, Dr. Malveaux also served as interim Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean, and Professor of Microbiology and Medicine.  From 2001 to 2003, he served as Vice Provost for Health Affairs and Dean of the College of Medicine.  He remained Dean of the College of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at Howard University until July 2005.

Dr. Malveaux is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.  He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.  He is active in numerous professional organizations and is, or has served as, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association; Creighton University; Children's Research Institute of the Children's National Medical Center; the National Allergy and Infectious Diseases Advisory Council; chairman of the Committee of Underrepresented Minorities, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; the Board of Trustees of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health; and the HHS/APHA Steering Committee of the Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.  He has held a number of positions with the National Medical Association including member of the Board of Trustees (1988 – 1994) and was first chair of the Allergy/Immunology Section. Dr. Malveaux was founder and president of the Urban Asthma and Allegory Center in Baltimore from 1986 to 1989.

Dr. Malveaux is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Vivian B. Allen Foundation Fellowship, the Clemens von Pirquet Research Award from the Georgetown School of Medicine, the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from Howard University and the Legacy of Leadership Award from Howard University Hospital.

Ann Mech, JD, RN, is Coordinator, Legal Affairs for the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She came to the School of Nursing in 1988 from University of Maryland Medical System, where she was an Assistant Director of Nursing.

Combining the fields of nursing and law, Ann Mech received both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society. Her Juris Doctor degree is from George Washington University.

A resident of Dayton, MD, since 1982, Ann Mech traces her roots in Howard County through her mother’s family to the middle of the 19th century when the family settled in Elkridge. Her community activities have included serving on the Howard County Board of Health, the Howard County Health Improvement Leadership Team, the Howard County CORE Service Agency Task Force for Mental Health, and the Task Force on the Future of Howard Community College. Currently, she is a member of Howard County General Hospital’s Board of Trustees, the Vantage House Board of Trustees, the Nursing Advisory Board of Howard Community College, and the Columbia Association’s Aquatics Advisory Committee.

Rev. Walter R. Rodríguez is the Senior Pastor of Ellicott City Primera Iglesia del Nazareno (Church of the Nazarene-Hispanic); he is also an Immigration Counselor with FIRN Inc. (Foreign-born Information and Referral Network) of Columbia, MD; is the Latino Coordinator of Theological Education with the Williamson Bible Institute of the Mid-Atlantic District of the Church of the Nazarene; and co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of CONEXIONES Inc., a Hispanic organization devoted to promote education among the Hispanic community of the Howard County, MD.

Rev. Walter R. Rodríguez is a native of Uruguay, South America. In his country he served as a District Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene. In 1984 the Rodriguezes moved to Argentina, where the couple served as instructors at the South American Nazarene Theological Seminary in Pilar, Argentina. Walter served as the Vice President for the Extension Program with this institution with jurisdiction over Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Mabel (his wife) and Walter finished their Bachelor Degree in Theology with a minor in Counseling at the Seminario Nazareno de las Americas (Americas Nazarene Seminary) of San Jose, Costa Rica. In 1990 they moved to Kansas City, Missouri where Walter completed his Master of Arts in Missiology at the Nazarene Theological Seminary. At the same time, between 1991 and 1994, Walter was the Editor of Ministerio, a Spanish magazine for Ministers

Since the Rodriguezes arrived to Maryland, Walter has been active in the community. First, with the Baltimore County Hispanic Advisory Board and also served the Hate Bias Task Force of the Howard County Human Rights Commission and the Multicultural Sub-Committee of the Domestic Violence Center. He co-founded CONEXIONES Inc., and participated in the Howard County Vision project.

Walter and Mabel live in Columbia, while his son Sebastian lives in Uruguay with his family, and Walter's daughter, Ana, lives in Baltimore, MD.

Mary Ann is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Howard Bank and chairs the bank's board of directors. She is a lifelong banker with over 30 years of varied executive experiences in the Maryland marketplace.

In 2003, she headed the organizing team for Howard Bank, the first new bank to open in the county in 15 years.

Prior to organizing Howard Bank, Mary Ann was employed by Allfirst Bank (formerly The First National Bank of Maryland and now M&T Bank) from 1973-2003.  Included in the positions she held were Executive Vice President for Regional Banking, Executive Vice President for Community Banking, Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, Senior Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions, and Senior Vice President / Group Head of International Banking.  As EVP for Regional Banking for Allfirst Bank, Mary Ann managed all branch, small business and middle market customer activities in four states and the District of Columbia .

Mary Ann has been a Howard County resident since 1995.  She was the 2005/2006 co-chair of the Grassroots Capital Campaign.  She chairs the Howard County United Way Partnership Board and serves on the board of the United Way of Central Maryland. She was also the 2003/2004 Howard County Campaign Chair of the United Way.  Mary Ann serves on the board of the Horizon Foundation. She is a board member of the Columbia Foundation and Vice Chair of the advisory board of the Howard County Women's Giving Circle.  She is also a board member of UMBC's  Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship. She is a member of the Columbia Rotary and a member of St. Louis Parish in Clarksville, Maryland. Mary Ann is a  former trustee, serving  on the Finance committee of the Howard Community College Foundation Board and also served on the college’s Campaign Council. She served on the board of advisors for Loyola College’s Sellinger School of Business and she was a past vice president on the Baltimore Opera Company Board of Trustees and a member of the board of the Maryland International Visitors Center.  In 2002 and 2005 Mary Ann was recognized as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by The Daily Record, was one of the Baltimore Business Journal's 2004'Enterprising Women' and was a 2005 Alumni Laureate honoree for Loyola College.

Mary Ann and her family reside in West Friendship.

Felícita Solá-Carter, prior to her retirement in January, 2009, served as Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources and Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer of the Social Security Administration. She shared national leadership of the Personnel, Training, Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, Labor, Management and Employee Relations, Human Capital Planning and Executive Services Support programs. A native of Puerto Rico, Feli graduated from the College of Mount St. Vincent in 1971. She began her career with SSA in New York City. In 1991, she joined the Office of the Commissioner in Baltimore, Md., as Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy Commissioner, becoming the first Hispanic in that role. She is the recipient of a 2004 Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive and a 2005 Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive, the highest honor a career Federal executive may receive.

Feli currently is President of Conexiones, a volunteer, non-profit organization supporting Hispanic student achivement. She also serves on the Equity Council, the District Planning Team, and the Bright Minds Foundation of the Howard County, Maryland Public School System. In 2008, she was named a Hispanic Hero by the United States Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur Education and as one of the 2008 Maryland Top 100 Women. Her professional affiliations include service as Senior Advisor to the Federal Training Institute of the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Hispanic Youth Symposium in Maryland.

Beverly J. White-Seals, Esquire, has a solo legal practice in Columbia, Maryland where she is Assistant General Counsel at General Growth Properties.

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ms. White-Seals earned her undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1972. She received her Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law in 1975. Ms. White-Seals began her legal career as a litigator with the U.S. Department of Labor before joining the Legal Division of The Rouse Company in 1979 where she worked until 1999. Ms. White-Seals is a member of the Maryland Bar Association where she previously served as a member of the Character Committee. She is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association as well as the American and National Bar Associations.

Ms. White-Seals and her family are residents of Columbia, MD where she has been actively involved in numerous community activities including, but not limited to, serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Howard County General Hospital and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She has also served as President of the Board of Trustees of Ballet Royale Company, and has been a member of the Boards of Howard County Hospital Foundation, Glenelg Country School, Vantage House, Howard County Arts Council, Columbia Interfaith Housing and Hospice Services for Howard County.