Board and Advisors

The Friends of North Carolina Freedom Park Board

The North Carolina Freedom Park Project is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable corporation.


 

Christina Coffey, Co-Chair, Treasurer, Friends of the Park, Vice President, Lee & Associates, Commercial Real Estate Services, Raleigh-Durham and Member of Leadership Raleigh Charter

Chuck Watts, Co-Chair, Attorney, Watts Law PLLC, Fractional General Counsel, Local Government Law, Insurance Law, Legislative Lobbying, Civil Litigation. Freedom Voice Descendent.

Shana Blake Hill-Saya, Interim Executive Director, CEO Tenacity Communications, Author, Historian, Performing Artist. Freedom Voice Descendent.

Nina Szlosberg-Landis, Civic Leader in Local State and National Government. Strategic Communications Specialist, experienced Community engagement professional.

John Mabe, Construction Legal Advisor, Attorney, Nexen Pruet PLLC

Terry Parker, Relationship Manager, Bank of America

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.

Jay Korreck, Chief Design Officer, Constructive Learning Design.

David Warren, Advisor, Professor Emeritus, Duke University

Reg Hildebrand, AdvisorHistory Research Committee, Retired African American History Professor, University of North Carolina and Durham Technical Community College

Adrienne Nirde, Adjunct, Director, The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission

Khadija McNair, Adjunct, NC Freedom Park Manager, The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission

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