Kathi Santora
President
Bio
Danita Terry
Vice President,
Programs
Bio
Kalin Thomas
Vice President, Communications
Bio
Beatrice D. Dane
Treasurer
Bio
Dr. Amy Rosenkrans
Secretary
Bio
Kate Campbell Stevenson
Cultural Ambassador
Bio
Dr. Ida Jones
Gina Lewis
Cherie Snyder
Dr. Pamela Young
Kathi Santora is a Harford County-based freelance writer with 25+ years of experience in producing print and electronic communications for government agencies and nonprofits. Her work includes a wide range of newsletters, features, family histories, brochure copy, fundraising support materials, grant applications, press releases and annual reports.
She also completed a 30-year career at the Maryland State Department of Education’s Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) in 2010. Her positions included disability claims examiner, medical relations liaison and, for the last 12 years of that time, Staff Specialist for Public Information and Planning.
Ms. Santora has prepared organizational strategic plans, implemented many special communication projects, managed web content, worked with local media, produced video projects, conducted statewide public meetings and trained large and small groups in communication skills.
She passionately believes in the "Plain Language" movement that makes the written and spoken word understandable and accessible to all.
Throughout 2020, the Year of the Woman, Ms. Santora volunteered research and writing services to produce biographies of sometimes-unknown Maryland suffragists.
Her avocations include regional history and photography. She is the co-author of Legendary Locals of Bel Air (Arcadia Publishing) and Dying to Tell Their Stories, a blog that explores Baltimore’s past by researching who is buried in the city’s historic cemeteries.
Portfolio: www.kathisantora.com
Danita Ferguson Terry is a seasoned communications professional with experience in feature writing, production management, editing, public and media relations and special event planning. Adept at building coalitions and developing relationships; she is able to collaborate across hierarchical boundaries to set and meet goals. From 2004 to present she has served as the Director of Communications and Marketing for the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland council located in Baltimore, MD. In this capacity she annually generates over $300,000 in in-kind media support for the Council and the 24,000 girls it serves in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore County, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties. She also served as Chair of the Girl Scout Research Institute subcommittee of Girl Scouts of the USA’s MARCOMM committee from April 2009-April 2010. Prior to working for Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, Mrs. Terry provided public relations and communications consultant services for Walls Communications, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and the United Negro College Fund’s Sports Ball. She also served as the director of public relations for the Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. (2000-2002). Mrs. Terry has written several magazine articles that include: Innovative Israeli School Teaches Students to Reach Out,” Near East Report, 1993 Going Away to School: Blacks and Boarding School,” Independent School, 1995 “The Dance of Meaning, The Meaning of Dance,” Independent School, 1997 Technology Enters the Auditorium of Ideas,” Independent School, “Developing a Legacy of Leadership,” Focus on Women Magazine, 2009 “Volunteering Empowers Others…And Yourself,” Focus on Women Magazine, 2010 ”Scouts Honor,” Her Mind magazine, 2013 In addition she has been a guest on WNAV, WRNR, WBAL/98Rock and WCBM’s Women Talk Live radio programs; a Maryland Business Roundtable Education Scholars Program speaker and speaker for the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference opening session in Dallas, TX (1999). Mrs. Terry received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications Arts from Howard University and her Master of Arts from Trinity College (Washington, DC).
Kalin Thomas is an award-winning, multimedia storyteller who gets geeked about cultural heritage tourism and preservation. Her passion is telling the stories of African American and multicultural heritage sites, museums and cultural centers through her skills in writing, museum programming and tour planning. The former program director for The Wren's Nest helped tell the story of Georgia’s oldest house museum and its preservation of African and African American folktales.
Kalin is also a former producer and correspondent for CNN's weekly travel program, TravelNow, where she helped broaden the program’s appeal to a multicultural TV audience through her series on travel trends among African Americans, LGBTQ tourists and travelers with disabilities. Her storytelling for CNN took her to six continents, including Antarctica, which is why she agrees with the Mark Twain quote: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
The “Multimedia Maven” has produced and voiced promotional videos and radio spots for nonprofits, as well as been a speaker or moderator at various conferences. She is a contributing writer for the book, Embracing the Real World: The Black Woman’s Guide to Life After College, and has had her writing and photography published in SoulOfAmerican.com, CuisineNoir.com, ExploreGeorgia.com, Travel & Leisure, Essence, Upscale and Black Meetings and Tourism magazines.
Kalin’s memberships include the National Association of Black Journalists and the Small Museum Association. She is currently writing a book about her travels, entitled DO YOU KNOW SHE’S BLACK? The Journey of CNN’s First Black Travel Reporter.
As a retired senior staff financial analyst of a major defense company, Bea’s current goals are to give back to her community through volunteering with organizations that promote women’s leadership, equity and equality. With over 34 years of experience in corporate finance at IBM and Lockheed Martin (LM) Corporations, she led the implementation and administration of the financial planning software used by over 800 financial analysts at the LM Federal Division. Other experience includes project budgeting, scheduling, and cost accounting.
Bea has an MBA from Marist College, New York; a BS with major in accounting from Austin Peay State University, Tennessee; and two years hotel administration at Cornell University, New York.
Memberships and volunteer positions: President, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Howard County Maryland Branch, 2014-18; Treasurer, AAUW Howard County Maryland Branch 2013-14 and 2018-23; AAUW Maryland VP of Funds 2022-24; Volunteer Docent, Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, Baltimore, 2014- present; Member, Mount Vernon Belvedere Association, Baltimore; Volunteer, Day’s End Farm Horse Rescue, Lisbon, Maryland; Volunteer, Glenwood Community and Senior Center, Glenwood, Maryland; Member DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)
Hobbies and Family: Spending time with family (husband retired Howard County math teacher; son lives in Columbia, Maryland); Travel – US and International; Reading, history and swimming
Judy A. Carbone, of Swanton, Maryland, is an active community advocate and activist for women’s issues. She is currently the President of AAUW-Garrett Branch and a leader on the Garrett County Democratic Central Committee.
A proud resident of Garrett County for nearly thirty years, Judy is currently the Garrett County Area Representative for ASSE International Student Exchange Programs and has held numerous positions throughout her career focusing on helping others including Field Interviewer on the Maryland COVID Contact Tracing Project; Volunteer Coordinator at HART for Animals; Director of Academic Advising and Success and Career Services Coordinator at Garrett College; and student services administrator at George Mason University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and Maryville University of Saint Louis.
Highlights of Carbone’s extensive community involvement include serving as a trained moderator for Braver Angels (a national organization working to depolarize our political conversations) and being a graduate of Leadership Garrett County (2017) and Emerge Maryland (2021).
In 2021, Judy was inducted into the Garrett County Women’s Hall of Fame and, in 2019, she was recognized as AAUW-Maryland's Woman of Distinction and one of The Daily Record’s Maryland Top 100 Women. She is the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party Rural Communities Committee and ran for Garrett County Commissioner in 2018 and again in 2022.
Judy has also been on several local Board of Directors including Garrett Lakes Arts Festival, Engage Mountain Maryland, and Mountain Laurel Medical Center.
Judy has earned a Master of Education with an emphasis in General Counseling from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The George Washington University. She and her husband Ken share their Deep Creek Lake home with two dogs who have their humans wrapped around their little paws.
Diana M. Bailey, Executive Director, Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. Prior to moving from the MWHC Board of Directors to the position as Managing Director then Executive Director, Ms. Bailey retired from the Maryland State of Education, Division of Career and College Readiness (2012) and serves as a consultant to MWHC and other organizations.
Ms. Bailey has been an educator and administrator for more than 30 years. She has extensive experience working with a broad range of special populations in education, occupational training, and employment and STEM career pathways. Several of Diana’s roles have focused on educational equity as well as community organizations supporting gender equity.
She was a member of the Maryland Commission for Women, Chair of the Howard Co. Commission for Women, currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Howard County Women’s Giving Circle, Vice Chair of the National Gender Equity Leadership in Education (NCSEE/AGELE), and chairperson for several years of the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame event for the Maryland Commission for Women and the Women Legislators.
Ms. Bailey is ABD (all but dissertation) from George Washington University in policy and leadership development as well as a MS from Johns Hopkins University. Diana holds numerous degrees and certifications related to career and workforce development such as Global Career Development Facilitator/Instructor certified by National Career Development Association/CCE. She also holds several National Institute of Corrections certifications including Offender Workforce Development Specialist (OWDS-I) and Master Trainer/OWDS. Ms. Bailey was selected by a national inter-agency committee for a national award for leadership and policy changes supporting Offender Workforce Development in April 2009. Since 2012, Diana brings her experience and passion for gender equity and women’s history to her Executive Director’s position for the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
Beverly B. Carter, Esq. is a retired Maryland attorney. She served as an administrator in various agencies within the state’s criminal justice system, most recently as Court Administrator for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
She is a past or current member of the board of directors for numerous civic, professional, philanthropic, and governmental associations including Monumental City Bar Foundation, Afro American Newspapers, Afro Charities and the Baltimore City Planning Commission. She was selected as a member of Maryland’s Top 100 Women and is a graduate of The Leadership Baltimore program.
Mrs. Carter has a passionate interest in African American art, history, and culture. She owned and operated Objets D’Art, an art gallery that showcased the work of local and national African American artists. She has served on the boards and various committees of Baltimore’s established arts institutions.
Her current projects include serving as historian for the Dubois Circle, an African American women’s group in Baltimore, which has been meeting continuously since it was organized in 1906 to support the activities of W. E. B. Dubois’ Niagara Movement. Utilizing the Dubois Circle archives, which date from 1906 until today, she is researching and documenting the organization’s longstanding history, programming and its social justice, civil rights and educational activities throughout its current 115-year existence.
Mrs. Carter also serves on the board of the Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project, Inc. whose mission is to uncover the forgotten past of the thousands of African Americans who remain buried under a shopping center on Belair Road in Baltimore.
Sally Grant was born in Maryland and for years has worked passionately in the field of women’s rights and civil liberties. She served as a role model for women and young girls by working in business and legal fields at a time when few women did.
In 1982, Governor Harry Hughes appointed Ms. Grant to the Maryland Commission for Women and he later elevated her to the Commission’s Chair – a position Ms. Grant held from 1984 to 1988. As Commission Chair, Ms. Grant encouraged other women to become actively involved in social issues by advocating for bills that established pay equity and flex time for State employees. She also had Commission meetings held throughout the state in order that women from across Maryland could participate and Commission members would become aware of geographically diverse issues.
During her tenure, she led in the creation of the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. Ms. Grant continuously worked within many other service-oriented organizations, including both the Maryland and Baltimore divisions of the League of Women Voters, where she served as Vice-President of each. She was a founder of the Women’s Alliance of Maryland, and served as Vice President of the National Council of Jewish Women and the Girl Scouts of Maryland. Ms. Grant also worked as President of the House of Ruth and was involved in the Maryland New Directions, the Maryland Volunteer Network and the HIAS of the Associated Jewish Charities. In 1993, Ms. Grant became involved with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland by joining the Board of Governors’ Executive Committee. For ten years, Ms. Grant served as President of the Board, and continues to work as the Maryland representative to the ACLU’s National Board, where she is involved with the Budget Committee and the Executive Committee.
Kate Campbell Stevenson has starred in over 30 Broadway musicals in regional theaters throughout the U.S. Some of her favorites include My Fair Lady, Camelot, Showboat, I Do! I Do! and The Sound of Music. She is a devoted catalyst for women’s issues, families and communities. In 1995 she combined these passions to create a series of one-woman shows Women: Back to the Future and Forging Frontiers. Today her motivational programs are featured nationally in schools, conferences government programs, and military events. Each performance brings to life powerful women’s stories through song, monologue and clever costume changes to inspire audiences of all ages for a new generation of leaders. Campbell Stevenson was recognized in “2012, and 2015, and 2020 as one of Maryland Top 100 Women” by The Daily Record for her “significant professional accomplishments, outstanding community leadership and inspirational mentoring. www.katecampbellstevenson.com
Ida E. Jones, Ph.D. Dr. Ida Jones is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a noted professional archivist and historian, award-winning author, educator, and recognized leader in the field of African American women’s history. She graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in News Editorial Journalism, a Master of Arts degree in Public History, and a Ph.D. in American History. Her dedication to her alma mater and to the identification, preservation, and use of personal papers and organizational records, created by African Americans and African American organizations, prompted her to accept the coveted position of Assistant Curator of Manuscripts in Howard University’s Moorland Spingarn Research Center. The Moorland Spingarn Research Center is “one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, in the Americas in other parts of the world.”
Since 2016, she has served as the University Archivist at Morgan State University, in Baltimore. In this capacity, she oversees the university’s organizational records (archival repository), along with the institution’s holdings of rare books and manuscript collections. She is innovating the digital and resource materials available for Morgan’s holdings through an active website, community outreach and quarterly open-house gatherings in the Beulah M. Davis Special Collections Room at Morgan. Throughout her career she has remained committed to membership and involvement in professional associations. She has served in leadership positions within the: Association for the Study of African American Life and History; Association of Black Women Historians; the Society of American Archivists, National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites, and the Organization of American Historians. She is making connections in Maryland through affiliating with the Baltimore City Historical Society, the DuBois Circle, and the Roland C. McConnell branch of ASALH and Blacks on the Chesapeake.
Her scholarship is evident in numerous publications, speaking engagements, and radio and television appearances. Her publications include numerous book reviews, a variety of encyclopedia entries, and an online exhibition for the National Women’s History Museum “Claiming Their Citizenship: African American Women From 1624-2009.” She has also published the following four books. The most recent title: Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams the Power of the Ballot (2019)
Cherie Snyder Cherie is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a major in history and sociology. She received her master's degree in Social Work, specializing in community development, from the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work in 1974 and a master's degree in Social Gerontology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
From 1987-2021, she was a Professor of Human Service and Integrative Health at Allegany College of Maryland (ACM) and now, while retired from her full-time teaching position, continues to teach gerontology and mind/body skills as an adjunct. As a professor at ACM, she shares her love of history, social justice, and advocacy for women with her students, both in the classroom and frequent road trips to historical sites.
Prior to coming to ACM, Cherie served for 10 years as the Director of the Multi Service Center for Aging (MSCP), a comprehensive community-based program for older adults in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of her favorite projects while living in Philadelphia was conducting an oral history project in the East Falls community where she lived. In addition, Cherie worked for nine years as a weekend guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, specializing in family tours and Early American life.
Cherie is certified in mind/body medicine with the Center for Mind/Body Medicine in Washington DC and is one of their senior faculty members providing training both nationally as well as in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. For the past 20 years she has worked to bring the Center's model of self-care, self-awareness, and group support to Western Maryland with the goal of using the evidence-based approaches to address historical trauma while developing a culture of wellness and resilience in the Appalachian region of Western Maryland.
Cherie lives in Frostburg, MD and has four adult children and four beloved little grandchildren. Passionately committed to women's history, particularly to the stories of everyday women whose courage, resilience, and strength provided the backbone for our country, she loves the mountains and snow of Western Maryland, camping, reading, history, needlework, old houses, quilting, antiques, and guinea pigs.
She is currently researching the lives of seven Allegany County women who were active in the suffrage movement and hopes that bringing their stories to life will inspire others to believe that "failure is impossible" (Susan B. Anthony) when passion and patience are applied to one's dreams.
Pamela Young is a professional social worker who devoted her career to the facilitation of the health and well-being of women and their children, especially those living in poverty.
As the Director of Community Initiatives for the LifeBridge Health System, she developed and administered programs designed to reduce the effects of social determinants of health on patients and their families and to extend the system’s outreach into its communities. Understanding that inequity in health status is related to systemic and structural inequality in our society and its institutions, she founded and directed LifeBridge’s Health Equity initiative to enhance the capacity of the health care system to respond to those disparities both within the hospital and in its communities.
Following retirement from LifeBridge Health, she became a Faculty Field Liaison at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. There she works with students and their practicum agencies to enhance the educational partnership that enables emerging social workers to gain practice experience with guidance from experienced licensed professional social workers. Additionally, she facilitates a seminar for those students which focuses on understanding the effects of structural oppression on those who they serve in their practicum.
As a volunteer she has served on the boards of various Baltimore human service organizations. As a volunteer at the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, she has coordinated the Pomeroy historic marker program in recognition of Maryland women’s suffrage activists. She also coordinates a course for a Baltimore lifelong learning program on Maryland Women of Achievement, featuring MWHC volunteer researchers and Board members as well as experts from partner organizations.
Dr. Young holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in human development from the Fielding Graduate University.
Tawanda A. Bailey is a long-time resident of Frederick County, Maryland and was appointed to the Commission for Women in April 2016. She was elected First Vice-Chair in June 2018, and served two consecutive terms. She has co-chaired the Commission for Women’s Education and Outreach Committee, has served on the Voices of Maryland Women Listening Tour Committee and the Public Relations and Communications Committee. She represented the Commission on the steering committee planning the annual Women Moving Forward Conference at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women.
Ms. Bailey retired from Frederick County Government in 2019 after 31 years of service and is now a Compliance Officer with Howard County’s Department of Fire and Rescue Services, where she is responsible for implementation and oversight compliance with State and Federal privacy regulations. She is also the small business owner of Bailey Massage and Wellness – specializing in chronic pain management and stress management.
Over the course of her career, she has been involved with many health and social services programs providing services for adults and children, including: Section 8 Housing, Rental Allowance Assistance, Office for Children and Families, Healthy Families Frederick, Heartly House and pre-hospital healthcare. In addition, she has mentored those in teen youth programs and was an advocate for victims of abuse.
Ms. Bailey is very active on numerous committees and boards in her community. She presently serves on the Board of Directors for the Frederick County Mental Health Association and sits on the Governance Committee. She is a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician with the United Steam Fire Engine Company and is a member of the Board of Directors. She mentors young women interested in Fire and Rescue. She is a part of the Downtown Frederick Partnership focus group on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Ms. Bailey is a 2020 graduate of the Frederick County Chamber Leadership Frederick Program. She received recognition from the Frederick County’s Commission for Women as “Up and Coming Woman of the Year” in 2020.
Jill Moss Greenberg was the Executive Director of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center since its inception in 2004. She was named to the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1995. Jill represented Prince George’s County on the Maryland State Commission for Women and led in the creation of the Prince George’s County Commission for Women. She founded the Maryland Women’s History Project and played a significant role in the passage of the Maryland Equal Rights Amendment, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and Title IX. She served on the Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and worked to create the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday. Jill co-founded the Maryland and Prince George’s County Women’s Political Caucuses, served on the original Finance Committee of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and was a “Founding Mother” of the Women’s Center and Referral Service. Jill worked as the Race Equity Specialist for the Maryland State Department of Education, Director of Multicultural Education at the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, and was the first Executive Director at the Washington, D.C., national headquarters for the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). For a number of years, Jill coordinated Homeless Education in Baltimore County.
Linda Shevitz has recently retired as Senior Associate in Education Equity for the Maryland State Department of Education. She also serves as the Coordinator of the Maryland Women's History Project. Linda Coordinates the statewide multicultural education network, composed of representatives of every Maryland school system, and serves on the Board of COVE (Coalition Opposed to Violence and Extremism). Linda is the past national chair of the Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education and works with the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education.
