Dr. Kwadwo Anokwa Kwadwo Anokwa is an Associate Professor and Chair of Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism at Butler University. He specializes in news-editorial and international communication and teaches a variety of courses ranging from newswriting to Change and Tradition. He was a former broadcast journalist in in his home country, Ghana. His most recent publication is International Communication: Concepts and Cases. |
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Charlotte Anokwa Charlotte
Anokwa is an adjunct professor at Butler University and specializes
in Gender and Development. She supervises Healthy Families and
the MOM Project at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. She
was born in Ghana and immigrated to Indiana almost two decades
ago with her husband and their children. |
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Nancy Hall Nancy
Hall is the Director of Finance, Marketing, and Member Services
for the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. Her primary
area of expertise is general and financial management for nonprofits.
She is a frequent lecturer and has written numerous articles on
various aspects of this subject. Ms. Hall has been providing services
to the nonprofit community for the past fifteen years. She has
provided ongoing financial and administrative assistance to organizations
such as Advocates for Children and Youth, Baltimore Reads, Friends
of the Family, and the Maryland Committee for Children. She is
an adjunct faculty member for the John Hopkins Certificate in
Nonprofit Studies Program, College of Notre Dame Masters of Nonprofit
Management Program, and University of Maryland School of Social
Work. Ms.
Hall received her MBA in marketing from Harvard Business School
(1974). Her daughter is a program officer at a foundation and
her son is an artist. |
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| Fran McDonald
Fran McDonald is the founder of McDonald Physical Therapy in South
Bend, Indiana. McDonald Physical Therapy is the premier physical
therapy organization in Indiana, and is well-known for their success
in curing patients who have had chronic and seemingly incurable
ailments. Fran is a true entrepreneur, and has consistently committed
himself to being involved in philanthropic organizations within
the South Bend community. He is also a local legend having played
with Joe Montana on Notre Dame's unstoppable football team. Fran
helped initiate and has continued to support the Adaklu
Orphan Fund for the past three years. |
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Kwaku is a professor of African Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He hails from Ghana and specializes in ethnic conflict. He continues to travel throughout Africa and contributes towards peaceful development. |
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Nicolus Oakley Nikolos is a Georgian national who has many years of experience in the nonprofit sector. He was the Deputy Director for Horizonti, The Foundation for the Third Sector, a Georgian nonprofit operating foundation that supports the Third Sector development in the country by offering NGOs financial, informational, managerial, and other types of assistance. He was an International Philanthropy Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he conducted a research on personnel management, to examine if there are any differences between the strategies of effective motivation of nonprofit and for-profit personnel. Nikolos
presently works at Lutheran World Relief's Baltimore office as
an International Finance Manager, Grants. |
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Joby
is a Shriver Doctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland Baltimore
County where he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Language, Literacy,
and Culture program. He has published articles on service learning
pedagogy as well as on the topic of race. He was a Peace Corps
Volunteer in Gabon, and since 1996 has directed Visions Guadeloupe,
a summer service-learning program in the French West Indies. He
presently lives in Baltimore with his wife Beth and daughter Isabel. |
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| Mary Volland Mary
Volland is the Head of Reference Services at the Albert S. Cook
Library at Towson University in Maryland. She is the liaison between
the library and the English and Modern Languages Departments.
She has been a strong advocate of librarian – faculty collaboration
and for information literacy initiatives. She continues to be
active in the Maryland Library Association, and served as President
of the Academic and Research Libraries Division.
Mary received her MLS from the University of Michigan and her
MA from Indiana University in Russian Literature and Language.
Her BA in English cum laude is from Florida State University,
and she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. |
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Carol is the
Assistant Director of Nonprofit Management Training and Education
Programs at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. She
has spent the last 25 years in leadership positions in the nonprofit
sector at the state and national level working to improve services
for children and their families and persons with disabilities.
Much of her work included organizational and program development,
fundraising, advocacy, and establishing and serving on multi-sectoral
partnerships. |
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