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​Directors and Managers James is a writer, an economic development practitioner and CDFI specialist in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region since 1990. He is the author of Still Running: Lessons on Divine Intervention Versus Personal Resilience...He has managed a number of high profile projects in the Philadelphia region, including Independence Apparel (1997 - 2002) - a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (JOLI Grant) funded welfare-to-work project between the City of Philadelphia, People for People, and Mothers' Works (now Destiny Maternity). He has spearheaded the creation of a number of CDFIs, including People for People and Sharon Baptist's New Life Credit Unions in Philadelphia. He wrote for ESA's PRISM Magazine (1990s) and Examiner.com (2013). In March 1998, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Empowerment about Charitable Giving (HR3241). He served as short-term missionary for SIM/ELWA, Liberia - http://www.sim.org - where he helped plant the Monrovia and Sinkor Evangelical Churches. His work among the poor has been featured in mainstream media, including the Philadelphia Business Journal and the American Banker - www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1997/05/12/story2.html.  A product of  Eastern University Graduate Economic Development Program, James attended undergraduate school at the University of the Virgins Islands and Bluewater Bible College where he was valedictorian of his class.
​Email:  james.kerkula@communitycapitaladvisors.org 
Phone: (267) 344-9891
  • ​Michael “Mike” Major, Sr., M.Div. – Board Member
​​Mike is Software Development Manager at Susquehanna International Group (SIG) - http://www.sig.com/. He is an Associate Pastor at Leo Sullivan's historic Zion Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. He holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from Temple University and the Master of Divinity (MDiv.) from Biblical Theological Seminary in Hartfield, Pennsylvania. He's president of Called To Serve Community Development Corporation in Philadelphia.
​Email: Mike.major@calledtoservecdc.org
Phone: (215) 605-1137 Tom is principal of the West Lancaster Animal Hospital in Lancaster, PA. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1977; he’s a certified member of the American Animal Hospital Association since 1980. Tom was President of the 260-member Lancaster Rotary Club from 1989 to 1990; President of the Fulton Theatre Board from 1990 through 1994. He was a vestry member, senior warden, treasurer, capital campaign manager twice; Minister of Membership and Giving at St. James Episcopal from 1995 through 2015. Treasurer, Building One PA 2013-2015. Co-Chair—Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association Education 1982-1990; Board of Overseer's School of Veterinary Medicine Penn 1997-2006; Vice-Chair—Penn Manor Education Foundation 1999-2006, President—2000-2004.
Email: tom.gemmill@communitycapitaladvisors.org
Phone: (717) 575-6241  Stephen is a former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and retired Professor of Eastern University. He has written four books, chapters in many joint books, and several articles in scholarly journals..  He's a leading scholar on the history of the Yoruba people. He's a frequent guest on various Nigerian television and radio political shows.  
​Email: Sakintoye1@yahoo.com
​Phone: (234) 9097652316 in Nigeria; (215) 459-3240 in Pennsylvania
  • ​Lizzy Koon
 Lizzy is Therapeutic Support Staff (TSS) with the School District of Philadelphia. She has been in the Behavioral Health Services field for more than
​ twenty years. She holds the Bachelor of Religious Education (BRE) from Bluewater Bible College in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
​Phone: (215) 303-7967 ​​Moses is Pastor of Faith Immanuel Lutheran Church in East Lansdowne, PA.  A native of Liberia and naturalized citizen of the United States, Pastor Dennis serves in various capacities in the African immigrant community in the Philadelphia region. He’s President of the Liberian Ministers Association of the Delaware Valley, Secretary of the African Ministers Association, and Board Chairman of Liberian Lutherans in the United States, among others.  He holds a Master’s of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministries from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (2005, 2015 respectively).​
Email: Mosessuah@gmail.com
Phone: (267) 259-0538 Funmi is senior pastor of Redeem Christian Church of God Living Spring Center, Philadelphia, PA - http://rccglivingspring.org. She's an author, motivational &  conference speaker, life coach and church planter. She studied Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1982 and the New York Bar in 1998. She holds a certificate from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, London, England and an LLM in Corporate Law and Finance from the Widener University School of Law, Pennsylvania, USA. Pastor Funmi served with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the Department of Public Welfare and the Unemployment Compensation Agency of the Department of Labor & Industry. She went into full time Ministry in 2007.
Email: fobilana@gmail.com
Phone: (267) 975-9180

  • Carlos Ward, Sr., CFP – Board Member
​Carlos is an administrator at Dell computers and Principal of RollIRA - www.rollira.com. He is graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Email: Carlos.ward@rollira.com
Phone: (609) 304-1271