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As director of the Baltimore Civic Site for The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Talib Horne leads the Foundation’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of young people and families throughout the city.

Horne is a leader with more than 20 years of economic development and nonprofit experience. He most recently served as executive director of Bon Secours Community Works, where he led a strategy to expand economic, educational and health opportunities in several West Baltimore neighborhoods.

He also previously served as vice president of community and economic development at the Living Classrooms Foundation, a nonprofit that provides hands-on education, workforce development, health and violence-prevention programming, and executive director of the East Harbor Development Corporation, which helps low-income Baltimore residents accumulate assets and wealth. Horne is a member of the Baltimore City Planning Commission, helping to oversee major development and land projects.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Business.

Franklin N. McNeil, Jr., a Community Consultant with PNC Bank's Greater Maryland, Community Development Banking team, is a 1983 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy. Originally from Memphis, TN, upon graduation from the academy he served in the Marine Corps for 8 years as an artillery officer until 1991. He had many wonderful experiences in the Corps, including the honor of being chosen to be a White House Social Aide during the George H. W. Bush administration.

He then worked for the Baltimore Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for 16 years where the majority of his career was spent in the Community Affairs Department working in the community economic development arena throughout Maryland, West Virginia and the metropolitan DC areas. In February of 2008, Frank became a charter member of PNC’s Greater Maryland Community Development Banking team where his job includes outreach to the community; writing and presenting grants and sponsorships; providing and teaching financial education materials to the community; partnering with non-profit organizations, local municipalities and neighborhood associations to find creative financial solutions to community needs through services and resources; identifying lending and investing opportunities; and participating in strategic development and support of PNC's low- and moderate-income (LMI) branches.

Frank is also very active in his community and either currently serves or has served in board leadership roles with several non-profit organizations that provide health and human services or other related services to the LMI population including the Maryland Philanthropy Network, Chase-Brexton Health Services, Community Law Center, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Baltimore Station, Iron Crow Theater, The Maryland LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce Foundation, USNA Out and he co-chairs the LGBTQ+ Fund at the Baltimore Community Foundation. In 2019, he was selected to be a member of the Governor’s Financial Education and Capability Commission. He is also very active in his faith community at First and Franklin Presbyterian Church here in Baltimore where he met his husband, Paul Fowler in 1995.

Tanya Jones Terrell is BGE’s Director of Corporate Community Impact and is responsible for overseeing BGE’s workforce development and corporate relations efforts throughout central Maryland with a renewed focus on enhancing the company’s impact on underserved communities. She works with the team to establish key external partnerships, such as those with community organizations, historically Black colleges and universities, and other anchor institutions in Baltimore and central Maryland. Tanya works closely with Governmental & External Affairs and across BGE to establish key leading and lagging performance indicators using data analytics. This will help to ensure that BGE’s community impact strategy closely aligns with the needs and concerns of the communities we serve. Tanya will lead the Corporate Community Impact organization with a focus on substantive, long-term programs with community and business impact.

Tanya’s responsibilities include developing, leading, and executing strategic corporate giving programs, workforce development initiatives and developing and managing strategies. Tanya has a wealth of experience in the nonprofit and education sectors, most recently serving as chief operating officer of The Leadership. Additionally, she served as executive director of the South Baltimore Learning Center and in leadership roles with Associated Black Charities, Empower Baltimore Management Corp. and other nonprofit organizations focused on workforce development.

Tanya holds a Master of Science in Counseling and Development from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Framingham State University. She serves on the board of directors for the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and is also a member of the advisory boards for the UMBC School of Public Policy and My Brother’s Keeper – Baltimore. 

Raj is the VP, Director of National Programming at Truist Foundation. He previously worked at the Robin Hood Foundation co-building its participatory grantmaking program, elevating nonprofit leaders of color pipeline, and co-designing their COVID-19 Relief Fund cash assistance strategy. He holds a law degree from Yale Law School.

He is eager to help lead conversations at the intersection of law, philanthropy, and racial justice; to share best practices for equitable philanthropy; and to helping shape MPN’s strategy as legal challenges to race-conscious grant making continue to develop across the country.

He is an active participant with the Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative.

Dr. Rebecca Cisek has focused on organizational learning, development and culture — in classroom and corporate settings — to empower others to achieve outstanding results. Rebecca graduated in 1999 from West Virginia University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Athletic Training, and then completed her Master of Education at the University of Virginia in 2001. She worked as a clinician/educator for eight years, culminating in a Director of Sports Medicine position at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Cisek completed her Doctor of Education in Organization and Leadership at the University of San Francisco and then moved into the corporate sector to work for Target Corporation from 2008-2015, serving in leadership roles in human resources, learning and development. Currently, she serves as the Vice President, Organizational Learning and Effectiveness for the Bainum Family Foundation. She is passionate about contributing to our society through the development of ethical leaders and equitable, inclusive, high-performing organizations. Rebecca currently resides in the Baltimore, MD area, and spends her free time enjoying fun adventures with her family.

Betsy is the President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Frederick County. She works closely with the Board of Trustees to implement policy and to create impact that is long-lasting and meaningful now and for future generations. Betsy has more than 30 years’ experience working with nonprofits and loves the thrill of making donor’s charitable dreams come true.

She is an active participant of MPN’s Maryland Community Foundations Association and a regular attendee of MPN’s grant practice programming.

Lara Hall is a Senior Program Officer at the Blaustein Philanthropic Group focused on educational opportunity, health and mental health. 

She has previously served on the Board of Directors (2008-2016), the Program Committee (2012- 2018), the Leadership Development/Nominating Committee (2011-2018), the Common Grant Revision Task Force (2013-2014), the Membership Eligibility Task Force (2014-2016), and has chaired the Education and Arts Funders Affinity Groups. She also incubated the School Climate Collaborative.

She is an active participant with the Aging, Arts, Education, Green, and Health Funders Affinity Groups.

Kristen is the Executive Director of the Richman Foundation. She previously served at Notre Dame Prep and Catholic Charities in a variety of roles including development. She is a member of the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies Board of Trustees and holds a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

She is an active participant with the Education and Health Funders Affinity Groups and a member of the Prenatal to Five Funders Affinity Group Steering Committee.

Erin is the Senior Program Officer at the France-Merrick Foundation working on health and human services.  She previously worked for Loyola University Maryland as their Director of the Center for Community, Service and Justice as well as led the York Road Initiative. She has also worked for Catholic Charities and Johns Hopkins University.

She has served on the board of Strong City Baltimore, Rebuilding Together Baltimore, CPHA, and GEDCO. Erin believes she brings a newer lens to philanthropy that is rooted in an asset-based, racial equity and innovation focus. She offers up bringing confidentiality, commitment to mission, strong fiduciary oversight, and developing others for leadership as her skills she can bring to board service.

She is an active participant with the Funders Together to End Homelessness-Baltimore, Aging, Education, Health, and Community Investment Funders Affinity Groups.

Destiny-Simone Ramjohn, Ph.D. is proud to serve as Vice President of Community Health & Social Impact with CareFirst, the largest health care insurer in the Mid-Atlantic region serving 3.3 million members. In this role, Dr. Ramjohn leads philanthropic giving and community engagement where people live, work, play, and seek care to drive measurable impact on health. This purposeful alignment of business impact, social impact, and health impact- with an eye toward equity- enables CareFirst to move health upstream to improve the lives of members and the communities it serves.

Creating conditions that promote health equity are at the core of Dr. Ramjohn’s personal and professional mission. Her work examines the role anchor institutions, such as academic institutions and health systems, may play in generating economic and health impacts that minimize inequities, especially jobs, added years of life from better health, reduced use of emergency departments for primary care, and more. Prior to joining CareFirst, Ramjohn spent five years with Kaiser Permanente developing measurement, evaluation, and high-impact strategies for the financial, material, and human resource investments across the Mid-Atlantic region that directly address the social determinants of health and promote health equity.

Dr. Ramjohn is a strategic disruptor and innovative change agent, enthusiastically implementing new ideas to ensure that large health systems’ policies, programs, and practices are aligned with an equity agenda.

Her research is guided by a strong desire to advance health equity using authentically inclusive, empowering, and evidence-based techniques to bring our nation’s most vulnerable from the margins of our society to the center of dialogue, advocacy, and power. She earned her doctorate in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University.

As the Senior Program Officer for Health & Human Services, Terry manages a portfolio of grants addressing a broad range of issues, including inequities in the health care system, social determinants of health, housing and supportive service needs of people experiencing homelessness, access to reproductive health services, and food insecurity, among other things. She enjoys working with grantees to ensure that they are able to achieve their objectives, and providing advice and guidance to organizations seeking funding.

Terry joined the Abell Foundation in 2000, drawn by its track record of supporting innovative approaches to addressing some of Baltimore’s most intractable challenges. Prior to joining Abell, Terry worked as a staff attorney at the Maryland ACLU and as an associate at the Baltimore law firm of Brown, Goldstein & Levy. She received a JD from New York University School of Law, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin. She and her husband are the proud parents of two adult children and live in northeast Baltimore City, a few blocks from the beautiful Herring Run Park.