Today, the NC Freedom Park Project Board members, all of whom are volunteers, along with our partners and friends, are pleased and proud of this project and the truly innovative way in which it speaks into current conversations about what is possible and worth saying together in public about our history and our future.
The North Carolina Freedom Park Project is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable corporation.
North Carolina Freedom Park Board of Directors
Goldie Frinks Wells, Co-Chair, Greensboro City Council Member
David Warren, Co-Chair, Professor Emeritus, Duke University
Victoria Gallagher, Secretary and Chair, Communication Committee, Professor of Communication and Director of MLK Digital Humanities Project, North Carolina State University
Ruth Proctor, Treasurer and Financial Officer, CPA
Brian Kubis, Assistant Treasurer, Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, PrecisionHawk,
Betsy Bennett, Campaign Advisor, Fundraising Consultant
Christina Coffey, Co-Chair, Friends of the Park, Vice President, Lee & Associates, Commercial Real Estate Services, Raleigh-Durham and Member of Leadership Raleigh
Stephen Dahlem, Co-Chair, Friends of the Park., Principal and Property Manager, Steele Property Management, Raleigh
Reg Hildebrand, Chair, History Research Committee, Retired African American History Professor, University of North Carolina and Durham Technical Community College
Reggie Hodges, Chair, Construction Liaison Committee, Former Director of Durham Literacy Center
Reginald Holley, Political Advisor, The Longleaf Group
Tracy Lovett, Liaison, Director of Public Engagement and Inclusion, Office of the Governor
John Mabe, Construction Legal Advisor, Attorney, Nexen Pruet PLLC
Adrienne Nirde, Ex Officio Member. Director, NC African American Heritage Commission
Freddie Parker, History Research Comm., Professor Emeritus of History, NCCU
Allen Pratt, Architect Advisor, Perkins & Will Architects
Juanita Shearer-Swink, Landscape Architect Liaison, PLA, FASLA; Chair of the ASLA Council of Fellows and the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board.
Michael Stevenson, Architect Liaison, Principal at Perkins Eastman Architects
Chuck Watts, Campaign Committee, General Counsel, City of Greensboro
Rebecca Quinn Wolf, Event Planning, Vice President and Director of Client and Community Relations, PNC Bank
Founding Board Members (in memorial)
John Hope Franklin
William C. Friday
Julius Chambers
Mary Duke Biddle
Founding Members Advisory Council
The Right Reverend George Battle, Charlotte
Beverly F. Burnette, Raleigh
Karl Campbell, Boone
Angella Dunston, Warrenton
Georgann Eubanks, Carrboro
Gladys Fowler Graves, Blanch
Paul M. Green, Durham
Les Griffin, Fayetteville
Earl Ijames, Wendell
Lenora Jarvis-Mackey, Elizabeth City
Bettie Murchison, Raleigh
Nick Rhodes, Wilmington
N. Carnell Robinson, Dunn
Linda Sutton, Winston-Salem
Marsha Warren, Chapel Hill
Reginald Watson, Greenville
James West, Raleigh
Father Mauricio West, Charlotte
Rebecca Anderson, Asheville
Walter Brown, Durham
Elizabeth Buford, Raleigh
Howard Lee, Chapel Hill
E.B. Palmer, Raleigh
Susie Powell, Chapel Hill
Dorothy Spruill Redford, Creswell
Loren Schweninger, Greensboro