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Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Afro Charities! Please complete this form and someone from our team will be in contact.
Our Team
The Afro Charities team facilitates your research, organizes informative events, mentors Baltimore youth, and manages the administration that keeps the organization running.
2023
Afro Charities acquires a pair of historic doors from the AFRO’s former headquarters at 628 N. Eutaw St.
A NOTE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
I am humbled to lead Afro Charities at this stage of its growth. Founded in 1963, the organization has touched thousands of families in Baltimore and beyond.
Now in our 7th decade, our small but mighty team is working diligently to bring long held dreams of a publicly-accessible AFRO Archives to reality. We are forging new partnerships and creating dynamic intergenerational programs that connect people with themselves and their history.
With your help, I look forward to an inclusive and well-resourced future for our organization. Attend a program, tell a friend about us, or make a donation. Help us bring this rich history to life.
Savannah
Artist and Archivist
OUR TEAM’S CORE VALUES
01
Inspire Curosity
Take honor and pride in being researchers and explorers of the diversity and versatility of Black history.
02
Authentically represent
Follow best archival and community practices to honor Black stories in an authentic manner.
03
Celebrate The Mundane
Celebrate and highlight the beauty of everyday Black people and stories in this work, and with the community we interact with.
04
Create New History
Be the living bridge between the past, present, and future.
MEET THE TEAM
Our dedicated team brings a diversity of interests and experiences to this work.
I come into work and I learn something new literally every day. And I think that people being able to see and access and have the same experiences that I do... I think that's something that people should experience, especially, with their own family history.
Oyinda
Archives Assistant
It's often hard to find Black lives in institutional archives. As a processing archivist, making thoughtful interventions in the data could completely change the trajectory of someone's life... So while people may deem some stories as small or insignificant, when you connect them and look at the bigger picture, they have so much impact. There are so many stories in this collection that it's never ending.
Bilphena
Afro Charities Processing Fellow
Board of directors
The Afro Charities board is composed of artists, executives, academics, and lawyers who volunteer their time to govern the organization.
Robert Matthews
Chair
Vice President, Talent and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Exelon
Rashida Bumbray
Vice Chair
Independent Curator and Choreographer
Dana Cole
Treasurer
Co-Executive Director, Impact Hub Baltimore
Chanel Compton Johnson
Secretary
Executive Director, Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture
Dr. OluwaTosin Adegbola Richard
Member
Executive Director, Clara I. Adams Honors College and Special Adviser to the President, Morgan State University
Beverly Carter, Esq.
Member
Retired Court Administrator Circuit Court for Baltimore City and Historian, Dubois Circle
Dr. Frances Murphy Draper
Member
Publisher & CEO, AFRO American Newspapers
Dr. Kimberly R. Moffitt
Member
Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMBC
Robin W. Wood, Esq.
Member
Partner, Wood Legal Group LLP
UNDATED
Linotype operators at the AFRO's former headquarters at 628 N. Eutaw St.