Board of Directors

Francine De Ferreire Kemp, DMc
Washington, D.C. Over 25 years of experience as a strategic management consultant with a focus on diversity, cross-cultural, inter-cultural communication, market focus groups, leadership, and conflict management. Currently, Dr. De Ferreire Kemp is the Owner, Founder, and CEO of Diversity Works! Inc. Located in Herndon, VA and Serving the Washington, DC Metro Area…Providing Strategic consulting to Government and Private Sector. She has served government clients and as a diplomat (Community Liaison Officer and Special Control Office to Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel), and other prestigious government posts. Extensive volunteer work with the Latino community in the U.S. (e.g., serving on many community Business Partnership Boards benefiting women and minorities in business).
Diversity Works!
800 Third Street, Suite 130
Herndon, VA 10170

Eric Henderson
Over 15 Years high-profile experience in marketing and sales with Fortune 100 companies and major brands. Executive level and significant volunteer involvement in non-profit sector. Currently, Mr. Henderson is the Manager of Marketing and Public Relations for Management Leadership for Tomorrow, which is a national non-profit that has made groundbreaking progress in developing the next generation of African-American, Latino, and Native American business leaders. Previously provided business consulting services (product definition, PR, marketing) to a variety of clients to increase their profitability and streamline their business development cycles, e.g., GE, CitiGroup, Xerox. Served as a Board Member for the Greater Dallas Planning Council and the Dallas Urban League. Named the “21st Century Most Promising Leader of the Dallas Urban League.
Management leadership for Tomorrow
7 West 36th St., 16th fl.
New York, NY 10018
United States of America

Pat Lynch
35 years of experience in advertsing, media planning, marketing and public relations focusing on media and women’s issues and serving a diverse range of companies. Founder of WomensRadio, a broad-based organization to promote communication for and about women. Founder and President of Women’s Calendar, reaching 400,000 women leaders through a weekly newsletter and providing the largest listing of events for women in the world. An influential advocate for Women’s issues, Pat serves several not- for-profits benefiting women through publicity and fundraising, including Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy, Heart Association, Fresno Habitat for Humanity and the Fresno Ballet. Currently, she is the Chair of the Media Task Force for the California Women’s Agenda, a group of some 600 women’s organizations throughout the State of California; Women’s Leadership Alliance, Bay Area Regional Action Coalition, American Women in Radio and Television, National Organization of Women, American Association of University Women, and is on the Board of Directors of the Afghan Women’s Association International.
Women's Online Media and Education Network
Producers of WomensRadio and WomensCalendar
2533 N. Carson St., Suite 3003
Carson City, NV 89706

Sandra Rivera, PhD, Board Secretary/Treasurer
Washington, DC. Over 15 years of experience as an international economist, project leader, and professor. Currently working as the deputy director, Office of Economics, U.S. International Trade Commission. Provides expert technical economic advice to Congress and U.S. Trade Representative on the impact of future internationla trade agreements. Highly involved in Latino social causes and has worked to mentor Latino youth including designing, instructing and facilitating a 4-week course, Latinas Learning Leadership, providing public speaking and leadership for high school girls. Served as President of HUD Toastmasters International, Vestry Board Member of Iglesia San Jose serving the Latino community, and received the Outstanding Community Service Award from Hobart and William Smith Colleges for mentoring and providng outreach to the undergraduate community. Mentored for the Borromeo Housing Program, a domestic violence support program.
9209 Allentown Road
Ft. Washington, MD 20744

Emily Samuelson, PhD
20 years of experience providing psychotherapy, speaker and consultant on child sexual abuse and realted areas. Author of Soaring Above the Ashes: Thriving Beyond Child Sexual Abuse. Has delivered a variety of presentations and expert tesitmonies on the affects of child sexual abuse. She currently runs a private practice providing individual psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults with a specialization in treatment of trauma. Member of both the American and Maryland Psychological Association.
28 Allegheny Avenue #1305
Towson, MD 21204

Patricia H. Troy, M.Ed., CASE, CAE, Board Chair
Over 30 years of experience as a recognized community leader and business owner focused on business development, education, nonprofit organizations and community causes. In 1980, with four other educators founded Chesapeake Academy, an independent elementary school. As an entrepreneur founded Bay Media, Inc. a publication management firm focusing on print and Web publications. Through her association management firm, Next Wave Group, LLC, Pat serves as executive director for range of nonprofit organizations. She founded FacetsWoman, a community of women offering special events, programs and activities. Pat is highly active in community work, and the founding chairman of Association for Severna Park Improvement, Renewal and Enhancement (ASPIRE, Inc). She chaired Anne Arundel County Advisory Task Force on Cancer Control and the Severna Park Small Area Plan. She also served as vice chair of the board of trustees of Anne Arundel Health System. She has recently been named to the board of directors of EDI Technologies, Inc.
182 Doncaster Rd.
Arnold, MD 21012