NABS Committees

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIP

Chair: Chetter Galloway
Atlanta, GA
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BUDGET & FINANCE

Chair: Gwen Hilary
Chicago, IL
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Favorite Quote: "If you want to go quickly, go alone.  If you to go far, go together"   ~ African proverb

Members 
Tonja Caldwell,  Deborah Pierce-Fakunle, Karen Abdul - Malik,

EDUCATION

Chair:  Dr. Linda Humes
New York, NY
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Favorite Proverb" A Single Bracelet does not jingle".~ Congo

  Members
 Oba William King,
Dr.MaryAnn Harris, Dr.Leslie Edwards, Gwendolyn J Napier, Vicki Bryan, Josephine Fulcher-Anderson,
Dana Wilchcombe, Donna Willingham, Thelma Thomas, Tanya Jackson-Smith, Eslyn Hinman, Joshua Gillespie (Brother Ashe)

FESTIVAL

Chair: Festival Director, Dylan Pritchett
Williamsburg, VA [email protected]

Favorite Proverb: "Learning expands great souls." ~ Namibia

Committee Members

Administrative Committee:
Barbara Eady, Eslyn Hinmon, Fellisco Keeling, Vanora Franklin Legaux, Elisha Minter, Carolyn Carroll

Selection Committee:
Keesha Dixon,  Dr. Caroliese Frink Reed, Beverly Fields Burnette

MEMBERSHIP

Chair, Sylvia Yancy Davis
Alexandria, LA
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Favorite Proverb:"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
---Maya Angelou

 Members

Barbara Eady, D. Kucha Brownlee, Rosa Metoyer, Eslyn  Hinmon,
Dylan Pritchett, Charlotte Starks,

NOMINATIONS & ELECTIONS

Chair, Linda Goss
Baltimore, MD
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Favorite Quote: "He who learns, teaches ~ African proverb

Members
Deborah Pierce-Fakunle, Fellisco Keeling, 
Rosa Metoyer

YOUTH

Youth Program Co-Directors
Elisha Minter
Charlotte, NC
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Favorite Proverb: What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to Learn ~ Asanti

Keesha Dixon
Indianapolis, IN
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Favorite Proverb: "Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off." ~ African Proverb.

Members

Esther Culver, Emily Bailey, Onam Lansana, Emily Lansana, Oba William King,  Rosie Meadows