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 Managers and Directors
  • Lindsey Carl (PA Candidate) - Interim co-executive director & board member
​Lindsey is a Physician Assistant (2020) graduate at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's a member of Jefferson's Honor Society, Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, Physician Assistant society, National Society of Leadership and Success, and Emerging Leader Program. She's President of her class, member of the track and field team, CACC High Jump Champion (2018) and Women MVP (2017). In 2016, she travelled to Honduras for a medical trip with Global Medical bridges, studied abroad in Costa Rica (2017) and volunteered in the Hospital Nacional de Ninos, San Jose. With high interest in our Liberia Institute for Girls - Todee (LIG) project, Lindsey is a volunteered Director of our Run for Africa (RFA)  annual event. Lindsey's core values of compassion and lending a helping helping hands would prove invaluable at CCA's current critical juncture. 
Email: Lindsey@communitycapitaladvisors.org
Phone:  570-854-3079
  • Justma "Just" Kerkula (DVM Candidate) - Interim co-executive director 
 Just is a doctor of veterinarian medicine (DVM) candidate at Ross University School of Veterinarian Medicine. She attended undergraduate school at the University of Michigan and Delaware Valley Colleg where she earned the Bachelor's of Science in Biology. Although young and relatively new to the nonprofit sector, she has made important contributions to the education and social enterprise sectors. While in college, she served as Community Capital Advisors (CCA) ambassador at People for People Charter School, tutoring and mentoring middle students in math and science. Also, as CCA's volunteer for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, she led the development of a neighborhood-based STEM lab under the aegis of Faith Immanuel Lutheran Church/All For All Agency in the William Penn School District - www.afaagency.org .  As CCA revises its mission to "Teach a Girl to Fish" - focused on women's social Justice issues, we are confident that Just, a STEM-proficient young female is a good fit as interim co-executive director of CCA.
  • ​​​Reverend Michael Major, Sr., M.Div. - Acting Board chair
 Michael is a Senior Technology Business Analyst at Susquehanna International Group (SIG), a global quantitative Wall Street trading firm. He has over 35 years in the technology industry leading and developing solutions for Wall Street and other areas. He is an associate minister at the historic Zion Baptist Church of Philadelphia. Mike is Board President of Called To Serve CDC, Inc., a nonprofit faith-based community development corporation working to revitalize a neighborhood in North Philadelphia.
Email:
Mikem_19126@yahoo.com
Phone: 215-605-1137
  • ​​​Keith F. Williams, Jr. (MBA candidate) - Board member and internal business analyst
 Keith is a Senior Commercial Credit Analyst at Firstrust, a privately held community bank. He has more than a decade of experience underwriting commercial and middle market loan facilities. Keith was formally credit trained at TD bank - specializing in commercial, industrial, real estate, and SBA financing. He's highly interested in developing solutions that cater to scaling residential and business lending in West Africa. An MBA candidate in international business and finance at Saint Joseph's University, Keith received the Bachelor's degree from the Delaware State University in 2007.
 Email: 
Keithfwilliamsjr@gmail.com
Phone: 215-390-3676
  • James Kerkula, MBA - CDFI and technical assistance specialist 
James is 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  - www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1997/05/12/story2.html, and the American Banker - https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-65508227/pnc-houses-and-funds-a-credit-union-in-philly-shares.   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​
  • ​Lizzy Koon - Board Member
 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: 267-455-4523
  • ​Reverend Dr. Moses Suah-Dennis, D.Min. - Board Treasurer
​​Moses is Pastor of Faith Immanuel Lutheran Church in East Lansdowne, PA - http://www.faithimmanuel.org/.  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
  • Stephen A. Akintoye, PhD - Board Member
 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 talk shows. Read more on his Wikipedia page -   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Adebanji_Akintoye
​Email: Sakintoye1@yahoo.com 
​Phone: 011-234-9097652316 in Nigeria; 215-459-3240 in Pennsylvania
  • ​Miatta Sawyer  - In-Country volunteer of the (CCA-led) Liberia Institute for Girls - Todee (LIG) project - www.universityoftodee.org 
Miatta is a former teacher in Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS). She has hands-on experience in community organizing, children programming, and women empowerment. She holds the Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Liberia. She's  counterpart to an incoming (short-term)  U.S,-based project developer for the LIG.
Email: 
Miattasawyer@gmail.com 
Phone: (011) 231-776913116
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