2025 Board of Directors
Amy Otto
CHAIR
Minister, Life Coach, Substance Abuse Counseling and Intervention
Sydney Batch, JD, MSW
VICE CHAIR
Attorney & Partner at Batch, Poore & Williams
Jennifer Green-Lee
SECRETARY
Office Manager/Appraisals
Avent Permenter Group
Jennifer Conner
AT-LARGE
Senior Account Executive, Government Sales
SAS
Dr. Cassandra E. Burney
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Accounting
Shaw University
Dr. Trina Clayeux
Chief Executive Officer
Give an Hour
Jackie Ferguson
Cofounder, VP of Content & Programming
The Diversity Movement
Tiffany Gay
Solution Architect Managing Director
Accenture
Dr. Jason Nieuwsma
Associate Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center; Associate Director of Integrative Mental Health at Durham, VA Hospital
Orgal Opata
Special Assistant II
State of North Carolina Government
Kalpna Jean Patel
Broker
Chappell powered by Compass
Lisa Rowe-Ralls
Adjunct Professor
William Peace University, Durham Technical Community College
Beth Thomas
Executive Director
North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services