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December 1, 2021
Dr. Kaplan has helped to launch the Mary S. Peake Fellowship over multiple years and his innovations helped to form key parts of the Fellowship’s methodology. For example, Dr. Kaplan co-development of the Balanced Scorecard and Activity-Based Costing measurement and management systems which helped inspire the Fellowship’s Service Learning approach to cybersecure growth and innovation. For his contributions to industry as whole, Dr. Kaplan was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame for contributions that “…revitalized the role of accounting in business management and strategic planning.” As the Fellowship grows, Dr. Kaplan continues to innovate Sustainable & Inclusive Growth strategies that connect residents of low-income regions to global supply chains for their products, services, and talent.
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December 1, 2021
Dr. Reuben has helped to launch the Mary S. Peake Fellowship for nearly a decade. She leads service learning for Harvard College and is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Dr. Reuben’s teaching and research address key questions for the Fellowship on the connection between educational institutions and social concerns, as well as the forces that shape educational change.
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December 1, 2021
Nancy has helped to launch the Mary S. Peake Fellowship for nearly a decade. She served 17 years as the first female president of Scripps College, one of the five Claremont Colleges in California. Upon her own graduation from Swarthmore College, Nancy was selected as one of the first Thomas J. Watson Fellows, named in honor of IBM’s founder. After completing her JD degree at Yale Law School and becoming the first female partner at Warren Buffet’s law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olsen, she returned to education. She ran the Thomas Watson Fellowship as Executive Director as her bridge back into education. Nancy sees her own roots in a Western Pennsylvania family business as the source of her lifelong work on Applied Learning & Teaching.
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December 1, 2021
VADM Brewer has helped to advance the Mary S. Peake Fellowship for more than a decade. He began developing the Fellowship after serving as Vice Chief of Naval Education and Training Command. VADM Brewer then served as Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District before returning to the Fellowship Development Team. VADM Brewer got to know the Fellowship Development Team as he oversaw disaster relief efforts during and after Hurricane Katrina as well as the Navy’s private sector relationships as he ran the Military Sealift Command. Raised in a family of educators, VADM Brewer serves on the Board of Bethune-Cookman University. He attended Howard University before graduating with a BS in Biology from Prairie View A&M University where he was commissioned in the first class of Naval ROTC established at an HBCU. To VADM Brewer, America’s promise depends on upskilling for more sustainable growth nationwide.
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December 1, 2021
Lana Lashley-Jordan is a Certified Public Accountant with over 23 years experience. Lana became a CPA during her time at KPMG. She went on to various accounting roles ranging from Financial Controller to Internal Audit Manager at Gildan SRL, one of the world’s largest vertically-integrated manufacturers of apparel, socks, and hosiery as well as auditing roles at Ahold USA and Massachusetts Port Authority. At Massachusetts Port Authority, she also served as Outreach & Supplier/Workforce Diversity Administrator. Lana earned a B.Sc. Hons, Economics and Accounting from the University of the West Indies.
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December 1, 2021
As Venly’s General Manager, Tom Fellows helped launch the Mary S. Peake Fellowship for more than a decade. In 2007, he began leading an elite programming effort that led to the Peake Fellowship Development Team. Together with Peake, Tom continues to pioneer Venly’s secure, massively scalable, open source commerce and collaboration platform that supports Applied Learning & Teaching among higher ed centers, local chambers of commerce, and Anchor Community businesses.
Tom has driven enterprise strategies from neighborhood shop owners to multinational CEOs and 4-star generals leading the DoD’s supply chain. He is a leader in the open source software movement and engineered the Peake Fellowship cyber-readiness assessment process. Tom holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Johns Hopkins University. He has dedicated his career to helping local businesses grow and strengthening each community served for sustainable growth.
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November 10, 2021
Peter Beach has specialized in non-profit and tax law since 1984. He began his career as a tax associate at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, DC and joined Sheehan Phinney in 1996. In 2001, Peter became a partner in Ernst & Young’s National Office West, specializing in the taxation of mergers and acquisitions. He returned to Sheehan Phinney in 2004. Peter has represented clients in software, telecommunications, healthcare, real estate, natural resources, private equity and venture capital, logistics, education, and the public sector. Peter is also a frequent contributor to professional journals and seminars. He earned a BA summa cum laude from Maharishi University of Management and a JD magna cum laude from Cornell University Law School.
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November 10, 2021
After graduating from Howard University, Eric became a Certified Public Accountant with Ernst & Young serving multinationals in the U.S. and overseas. Eric’s CEO team executive positions span across market leaders from media to financial services including his pivotal Chief Financial Officer & Chief Administration Officer roles for the pioneering Graves family organization and its cornerstone publication Black Enterprise.
Having grown up in an activist family in Montgomery, Alabama, Eric saw first-hand the impact individuals can make including his grandparents and mother who were active in Montgomery bus boycotts. His father, Rev. Herbert Eaton, became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church succeeding Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after MLK returned to Atlanta.
As part of his own commitment to education, Eric served as Chief Financial Officer of two HBCUs, South Carolina State and Grambling State, in support of his Howard classmate Dr. Cynthia Warrick, when she served as president of those institutions. Eric went on to serve as CEO of the Daniel Morgan Graduate Program in National Security which is now part of Texas A&M University’s George H.W. Bush School of Government & Public Service. Most recently, he serves on the executive team of i-Build Global, Inc., a Platform as a Service company that facilitates the construction of affordable housing in the developing world, working in concert with Habitat for Humanity and other international organizations. Eric’s experience across industry and academia supports the Mary S. Peake Fellowship as a catalyst for minority serving institutions and all U.S. higher ed institutions playing a greater role in nationwide upskilling.
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November 10, 2021
Ariadne serves as Executive Director of Resources for Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Prior to the Kennedy school, Ariadne was Development director at the Harvard Medical School and Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Cambridge College. As a member of the Cambridge College President’s Leadership Team, she helped develop the College’s three-year strategic plan after serving as Vice President of Development for the John F. Kennedy President Library. Ariadne has a BS from University of Pennsylvania, and Masters in Policy and Planning from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
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November 10, 2021
Dr. Karl Reid served as Vice President at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after serving as Vice Provost of Northeastern University, a global leader for over 100 years in applied learning through its “Co-op” cooperative education programs.
Previously, Dr. Reid served as chief executive officer of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Vice President of Research and Innovation at the United Negro College Fund, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at MIT.
As an MIT undergraduate, Dr. Reid was a NSBE member before being elected as NSBE’s National Chairperson during his senior year. Dr. Reid went on to a career at IBM in various product management and consulting roles. While at NSBE, Dr. Reid aligned the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the Society of Women Engineers to encourage the students to enter engineering.
