Faculty
Susan Taylor Batten+ – President & CEO, Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE)
Sandra C. Brown – Dean and Professor, Southern University School of Nursing and Allied Health
Octave Francis – Managing Director, FFC Investment Advisors of Raymond James
Alfred E. Harrell, III+ – CEO, Southern University System Foundation
James A. Joseph+ – Former US Ambassador to South Africa and President Emeritus Council on Foundations
Harry L. Williams – President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund
David Maurrasse – Founder & President, Marga Incorporated
Amir Pasic+ – Eugene R. Temple Dean of the Indian University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Emmett D. Carson – Former CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Minneapolis Foundation
Elsie Scott+ – Former President and CEO Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Executive; Director, Ron Walters Center for Public Policy at Howard University
Beverly Brooks Thompson – President and Executive Counsel, Brooks Thompson Consulting
Doug White – Columbia University Fundraising Management Graduate Program
Sevitri M. Wilson+ – CEO, Resilia
Theresa C. Younger – President & CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women
René Valdry+ – Boeing Company
Linda A. Valdry+ – Valdry Properties
Byron C. Stevenson+ – Senior Pastor and Founder of the Fort Bend Church
Valdry Center for Philanthropy Advisory Board Member+
Staff
Administration
Alfred E. Harrell, III – CEO
Jocelyn Lewis – Executive Assistant to the CEO
Donor Services
Yvonne Roberson – Database Manager
Danielle Honoré – Office Manager
Financial Services
Toni Booker – CFO
Shirley McLendon – Comptroller
Marketing Services
Shonda Wessinger – Communications Director
Program Services
Terrye Braden – Program Director
Morkeith Phillips – Director, Honore Center for Undergraduate Student Achievement – Southern University New Orleans
Theodore Scott – Director, Williams Center for Undergraduate Student Achievement – Southern University Shreveport
Valdry Center for Philanthropy at Southern University
618 Harding Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807
Phone: 225-771-3911
Website: vcp.sus.edu