Impact In Arkansas


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Board of Directors

Phillip Baldwin Jerry Adams
President & CEO
Arkansas Research Alliance
Conway, Arkansas
    René Bryce-Laporte
Phillip N. Baldwin
President & CEO
CredAbility
Atlanta, Georgia
William Bynum
René Bryce-Laporte
Program Manager, Skills for America's Future
Aspen Institute
Washington, D.C.
    Ralph Christy  William J. Bynum
Chief Executive Officer
Hope Enterprise Corporation
Jackson, Mississippi
Cynthia East
Cynthia East
Owner
Cynthia East Fabrics
Little Rock, Arkansas
    Andre Guerro
Andre Guerrero, Ed.D.
Director of Programs
for Language Minority Students

Arkansas Department of
Education
Little Rock, Arkansas
Pledger Monk Susan Harriman
Director of Policy
Arkansas Department of Education
Little Rock, Arkansas
    Pledger Monk Pledger E. Monk, III,
CPA, CFA, CFP®, CIMA

Vice President, Wealth Management Advisor
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Little Rock, Arkansas
S. Yvette Murphy-Erby S. Yvette Murphy-Erby,
MSW, Ph.D. (Chair-Elect)
Director and Associate Professor
University of Arkansas
School of Social Work
Fayetteville, Arkansas
    Toyce Newton Toyce Newton
President and CEO
Phoenix Youth & Family
Services, Inc.
Crossett, Arkansas
Lisenne Rockefeller Lisenne Rockefeller
Little Rock, Arkansas
    Vicki Saviers
Former Executive Director
Public Education Foundation of Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas
Baxter Sharp J. Baxter Sharp
(Chair)

Attorney at Law
Sharp & Sharp, P.A.
Brinkley, Arkansas
Chairman of the Board
Merchants & Planters Bank
Clarendon, Arkansas
Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney for the 
First Judicial District
    Diana Gonzales Worthen Diana Gonzales
Worthen, Ph.D.

Director
Project Teach Them All
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Moving The Needle