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Larry Glover is a Senior Partner at Breakthrough Marketing Technology. He is a marketing and communications executive with experience in multiple forms of media, strategy development; market planning and communications. He has worked with national and global advertising agencies and for clients including Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola. The U.S. Army, and Sara Lee Corporation.

Since 2015, his firm has specialized in Energy Strategies For Urban Communities providing practical guidelines to improve efficiency for buildings in urban centers. Larry has been a leader is promoting the use of use data to assess and track energy performance and its impact on communities of color. The company also provides strategies to engage private-sector partnerships with technical service providers to implement energy reduction communication plans.

As part his efforts in Energy Efficiency and Workforce Development Larry worked with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to develop and execute a model public, private, labor partnership for energy efficiency. The initiative garnered united support from legislators, educators, faith leaders and government agencies.

Larry has lectured as a multicultural subject matter expert. He has held board positions on marketing and advertising industry associations and was appointed to chair a state insurance regulatory agency.

Living a passionate life and inspiring others to wellness is David Girton’s life’s purpose. A U.S. Air Force veteran and long-time Maryland resident, David is a nationally-televised fitness pro and Coach to organizations including the NAACP’s Leadership 500 Conference. David is also the thought leader and creator of the successful Facebook group, WE Dig Green, a community of Healthy Lifestyle enthusiasts. He was also a 2015 Baltimore Sun's Fitness Heroes nominee.

David believes that a holistic approach founded on mastering the fundamentals – positive mindset, sustainable eating habits, quality rest, and managing stress - all lead to a lifetime of healthy habits that can be passed on and impact generations to come.

An avid mud and obstacle racer, David has utilized his fitness expertise and enthusiasm to create the SOULdier workouts; routines designed to prepare athletes to take on the rigors of outdoor mud and obstacle courses such as the Savage Race, Spartan Race and Tough Mudder events, in which he has completed. David’s strengthening and conditioning workouts in The LaB at LiveNow Fitness drive athletes to stronger Results.

Kameron Feggins is a senior at Morgan State University studying Family and Consumer Sciences expected to graduate in the spring of 2020. During the spring semester of his junior year, he interned with the National Aquarium under the What Lives in The Harbor program.

After his internship, Kameron accepted a paid position as an Education Aide. His goal is to someday open a community center in his hometown of Philadelphia that will make positive change in impoverished communities around the city.

Since he and his family purchased property in the historic Town of Eagle Harbor some 40 years ago, Mayor James D. Crudup has been an involved citizen. After first serving as the president of the Citizens Association several decades ago and then, serving two terms as a Commissioner in the Town, he finally assumed the leadership positon of Mayor.  Now, in his fifth and last term as Mayor, he is extremely proud of what he and the board of commissioners have accomplished. At the top of that list of accomplishments, he is most proud of the Town’s designation as a Sustainable Community by the state of Maryland in 2018.

Mayor Crudup is a visionary leader and the first Mayor of the Town to develop a strategic plan. He is passionate about sustaining the Town’s historic heritage while navigating the difficult challenge of moving from a seasonal, sleepy, black resort beach Town to a vibrant year-round sustainable community.

Brandi Colander is a Principal with The Raben Group, a national public affairs and strategic communications firm committed to making connections, solving problems, and inspiring change across the corporate, nonprofit, foundation and government sectors.

Prior to joining the firm, Colander was the Head of External Relations for Charter Communications, supporting their Diversity & Inclusion team. In that role, she was responsible for strategic outreach, stakeholder engagement and philanthropic initiatives for a corporation of roughly 100,000 employees.

Colander had two stints in the Obama Administration. Serving as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of the Interior she advanced regulations for the nation’s four energy development bureaus, managed government relations, and stakeholder engagement. Colander began her career in public service as the Deputy General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) where she led strategic initiatives and provided counsel on matters ranging from ethics to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Before joining the Executive Office of the President, Colander was an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) where she developed an expertise in utility restructuring and renewable energy.

Colander chairs the Board of Directors for the District of Columbia’s Green Finance Authority and serves on the Leadership Council for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated and the Links Incorporated. Brandi graduated from the University of Virginia and earned her Master’s degree at Yale University and Juris Doctor at Vermont Law School.

She resides in the District of Columbia with her husband, daughter and dog.

Brodrick Clarke is an agent for social change with 20 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Clarke is committed to improving public education nationally by actively working with educators, parents and students, providing them with the tools, skills and competencies to survive, grow and thrive. He has extensive experience working with the K-12 student population primarily in an out-of-school time setting. Clarke has recruited and trained hundreds of youth workers and volunteers. He has personally trained hundreds of DC teachers in the art of teaching and reaching youth. Clarke has a relentless focus on Advancing Youth Development and fostering the 40 Developmental Assets in youth. These two frameworks used in tandem empower him to meet the needs of students regardless of their perceived limitations.

Clarke’s facilitation style is unconventional. He incorporates research and best practice with interactive simulations to engage his audience in dynamic learning experiences. Clarke served an 18-month tour of duty with the Muhammad Ali Center directing their domestic and international youth development initiatives and currently serves as the principal trainer with his consulting firm. Clarke holds a Bachelors of Science degree in human services and management from the University of Phoenix.

Michael Carter, Jr. is an 11th  generation farmer in the United States and is the 5th  generation to farm on Carter Farms, his family’s century farm in Orange County, Virginia. There, Michael leads workshops on how to grow and market ethnic African/Asian vegetables. At Virginia State University, Michael is the Small Farm Resource Center Coordinator for the Small Farm Outreach Program as well as food safety coordinator and trainer. He sits on the board of directors of the Virginia Association of Biological Farmers (VABF) and Virginia Foodshed Capital. He also serves as the state coordinator for the Black Church Food Security Network and as the food safety coordinator for the Six State Farm to Table organization.

Michael earned an agricultural economics degree from North Carolina A&T State University and has worked in Ghana, Kenya and Israel as an agronomist and organic agricultural consultant.  As a cliometrician, curriculum developer and program coordinator for his educational, cultural and vocational platforms, Hen Asem (Our Story) and Africulture, Michael shares the contributions of Africans and African Americans to agriculture worldwide and the many stories that history almost forgot. He trains students, educators and professionals in African cultural understanding, empathy, and implicit bias recognition.

Sarah Lillie Anderson is Senior Manager of Tree Equity at American Forests. Her work focuses on delivering benefits of healthy urban forests to communities historically left out of receiving them. Via the Tree Equity: Career Pathways initiative, Sarah facilitates capacity-building activities for pre-employment programs that build and retain a diverse, qualified, and representative workforce.

Previously, she ran Lillie Leaf Solutions, a consulting firm that helped urban greening stakeholders address equity, access, inclusion, and justice in their work. Sarah and her team at Lillie Leaf currently served as the project lead of the Growing Tree Canopy Through Environmental Justice project which helps to build community capacity for planting and caring for trees in systemically disenfranchised Chesapeake Bay Region communities. Sarah has a dual Bachelor’s degree in Urban & Environmental Studies and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master’s degree in Public Administration from Bowie State University.

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