John Elliott Churchville, PhD, JD, - Executive Director.

Dr. Churchville is an author, activist, educator, leadership coach, African Liberation theologian, attorney and a Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies.

 

Because of his innovative community organizing work in Southwest Georgia, the Mississippi Delta and Philadelphia, PA, from the 1960s to the present, Dr. Churchville was chosen to be videographed for the joint Civil Rights History Project of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution. His 2½ hour interview has been archived by the Library of Congress for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC and archived at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

 

His experience and background include: civil rights voter registration work in Southwest Georgia and the Mississippi Delta in the early 1960s; creating and head-mastering an independent school for African American inner-city youth from the early 1960s until the late 1970s; functioning as the director of a national criminal justice program and fundraiser for an international charitable organization from the late 1970s to the early 1980s; developing a financial services, insurance and securities brokerage firm and Registered Investment Advisory service from the early to late-1980s; serving as a farm-workers’ rights, criminal defense, Elderlaw, estate planning and corporate affairs attorney from the 1990s; and operating as an environmental and social justice advocate and leadership/organizational development and strategic planning consultant since 2004. Dr. Churchville was founder and president of the Greater Germantown Business Association (GGBA) and a co-founder of Germantown Community Connection (GCC), Germantown United CDC (GU CDC) and Summerville Second Chance, Inc. (SVSC)

 

Charles L. Richardson-NAC Coordinator

Mr. Richardson has a broad and impressive background as a program developer, implementer, director, manager and administrator. His experiences range from managing a Clean Corridors Program to planning and implementing interagency outreach strategies to formulate a coordinated approach to servicing at-risk youth who had extreme behavioral issues. His background also includes working as a program director for a prisoner reentry initiative and serving as a public investments associate for the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board.

 

Mr. Richardson holds a B.A. degree in Human Services Administration from Antioch University Philadelphia and a certification in Fundamentals of Fundraising from Villanova University.

 

Vivian S. Moore - Office Manager and Administrative Assistant.

Ms. Moore, a Philadelphia native, has lived in Germantown since 2004. She has served as Block Captain of her block and is involved with the Philadelphia Summer Lunch Program, Feeding 1,000 for Thanksgiving and District 33’s Christmas Toy Give-away Drive. As a proud and caring Germantown resident, Ms. Moore is a community activist in her own right, sensitive to, and serving the needs of those who seek assistance in the community.