PRESIDENT
Dr. David Wilson
HONORARY CHAIRS
Mrs. Sylvia Brown
Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation
Mr. Calvin Tyler (’64)
Retired Senior Vice President for Operations at United Parcel Service, Inc.
COORDINATORS
Dr. Burney J. Hollis (’68), Chair
Professor of English and Dean Emeritus
Professor DeWayne Wickham, Vice-Chair
Dean of the School of Global Journalism and Communication
HONORARY COMMITTEE
Lezli Baskerville, Esq.
President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
Honorable Robert M. Bell (’65)
Retired Chief Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals
Dr. Andrew Billingsley
Eighth President of Morgan State University
Mr. Jesse Brown (’77)
Retired Medical Technologist in Clinical Chemistry at Kimbrough Army Hospital at Fort Meade
Bishop John Bryant (’65)
Senior Bishop and Presiding Prelate of the Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Honorable Ben Cardin
United States Senator from Maryland
Dr. King V. Cheek
Seventh President of Morgan State University
Honorable Joan Carter Conway
Maryland State Senator for the 43rd District of Baltimore City
Mr. Michael Cryor (’68)
President of The Cryor Group, LLC
Honorable Elijah Cummings
United States Representative of Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District
Mr. Hughlyn F. Fierce (’61)
Former Senior Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank
Former President and Chief Executive Office of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Mr. Cecil Flamer (’69)
Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer, Brown Capital Management
Rev. Dr. Charles D. Fletcher, Jr. (’70)
President of the Morgan State University Alumni Association
Ms. Marisa François
Graduate Student at Morgan State University
Mr. Earl Graves, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Black Enterprise
Honorable Peter C. Harvey (’79)
Former Attorney General of the State of New Jersey
Mr. Bert J. Hash, Jr. (’70)
Former Chief Executive Officer and President of the Municipal Employees Credit Union, Inc.
Mr. Willie E. Lanier, Sr. (’67)
Former Hall-of-Fame Linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs,
President of The Lanier Group, LLC, Chair of the Morgan State University Foundation
Mr. Kevin Liles
Founder & CEO, KWL Enterprises
Founder & Partner, 300 Entertainment
Honorable Kweisi Mfume (‘76)
Chair of the Morgan State University Board of Regents
Former United States Representative of Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District and
Former Chief Executive Office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Honorable Nathaniel McFadden (’68)
Maryland State Senator for the Forty-Fifth District of Baltimore City
Honorable Catherine E. Pugh
Fiftieth May of the City of Baltimore
Honorable Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Forty-Ninth Mayor of the City of Baltimore
Dr. Earl S. Richardson
Ninth President of Morgan State University
Honorable Boyd Rutherford
Ninth Lieutenant Governor of the State of Maryland
Ms. April Ryan (’89)
White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio
Mr. Johnny C. Taylor, Esq.
President and Chief Executive Office of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Mr. Carl W. Turnipseed (’69)
Former Executive Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York