National Board Members of NAFJ
Ms. Addie Richburg,
National President and Chairman of the Board
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Addie L. Richburg is co-founder and serves as President and Chairman of the Board of the National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ). She is a retired employee of the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In her final assignment, for over a decade, she served as the National Volunteer Coordinator and key subject matter expert to over 100 institutions and six regions for volunteer and citizen participation programs at the agency headquarters in Washington, DC. Within her 22 year career with the BOP, Ms. Richburg received over 30 awards to include the agency's highest national award for EE0 (Equal Employment Opportunity). Among other awards during her institutional and headquarters assignments, she received Instructor of the Year, Employee of the Year, Supervisor of the Quarter, multiple Sustained Superior Performance Awards, and has received awards for her design and dedication to numerous special acts and efforts. As only one of 11 invited, in January 2009 Ms. Richburg was recognized at the White House for innovative and exemplary leadership in mobilizing volunteers of faith in specialized service in a ceremony honoring 20 years of volunteer leadership hosted by President George W. and Mrs. Laura Bush in honor of Former President George H.W. Bush, Sr. In November 2009 at Niagara University College of Education, Ms. Richburg was inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education, recognizing excellence in education and those who exhibit the ideals of scholarship, promise in teaching and allied professions. Among her accomplishments, Ms. Richburg conceptualized JUSTICE SUNDAY™, recognized nationally by federal and municipal officials, agencies, and by hundreds of churches across the country on the day before the federal holiday which honors Dr. Martin Luther King. The observance honors Dr. King in his role as a clergy during the civil rights movement, the role of faith practitioners in civic responsibility and service which led to critical change in this country, and it serves as a day of anticipation for the MLK Day of Service. Also to her credit, she conceptualized and NAFJ launched the PEN OR PENCIL™, a national transformational mentoring approach which uses history to impact improvement in social skills, behavior, self-respect, and other variables in the lives of youth aged 8-17. Ms. Richburg serves on the Institutional Review Board of the Urban Institute and the National Board of Directors for the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. She serves as a training and technical assistant consultant for federal and state agencies in the design and implementation of several national initiatives to include the National Ten Point Training Institute. Among areas in which Ms. Richburg has authored materials or provided training and technical assistance are reduction of delinquency, intervention and prevention, reentry, mentoring (youth, juvenile and adult offenders and children of offenders), domestic violence, policy engagement, and faith-based partnership building. Ms. Richburg is an accomplished speaker and presenter. For fifteen years, Ms. Richburg moderated and coordinated an issues forum during the Congressional Legislative Black Caucus Conference in Washington, DC, and has presented in academic, religious, community, and governmental meeting and conference settings. She has developed special projects or presented with an extensive list of celebrities and notable figures to include the late Mrs. Rosa Parks, countless film and motion picture actors and actresses, with multiple recipients of the Miss America title, numerous Cabinet, Congressional and with other officials and leaders. Ms. Richburg is a native of Milton, Florida, and mother of three adult children. Contact E-mail: office@nafj.org |
Dr. Bryan Walls
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Dr. Bryan E. Walls was born in Windsor and raised in Puce, Ontario. He began his undergraduate studies at the University of Detroit and completed them at the University of Windsor earning a Bachelors of Science Degree 1969. He continued his education at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree in 1973.
Dr. Walls is founder of the John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum in Puce, Ontario. Dr. Walls is a noted historian and lecturer on how the Underground Railroad history can be used to teach Math and Science, anti-bullying and little-known African Diaspora History. He lectures on diversity and mutual respect at police colleges, C.O. Bick Police College in Toronto and Aylmer Provincial Police College. He partners with the University of Windsor and Toronto District School Board and Detroit District School Board in an annual African Diaspora Student Conference. Dr. Walls also partners with Motown Historical Museum, Hitsville U.S.A, Mrs. Rosa Parks and Elaine Steele’s Pathways to Freedom Program, and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. He is the author of The Road That Led to Somewhere (based on a true story of his ancestor’s journey on the Underground Railroad to Canada. He has written a screen play for a movie, a libretto for a Broadway play, and has co-authored an education unit of study guide for teachers and students. Dr. Walls is Past President of Assumption High School Student Council, the Essex County Dental Society, and the Ontario Historical Society. Other memberships include the Omicron Chapter of the Zi Psi Phi National Dental Fraternity and the Ontario Heritage Foundation, founded in 1888. He is a committee member of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Services Recruiting Unit, a Board Member of the National Alliance of Faith and Justice, Washington D.C and a Deacon of the Historic First Baptist Church Puce, founded by his ancestors in 1846. Honours bestowed upon Dr. Walls, include the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Honouree of Distinction Alumni Award of Merit, Order of Canada (C.M.,) Chancellor’s Award, Iona College University of Windsor, the Order of Ontario (O. Ont.), Ontario Government Outstanding Achievement of Volunteers, Lamp of Learning Award, Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), and Hon. Doctor of Humanities, Urban Bible College, Detroit, Michigan.
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Ms. Eleanor Murkey
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Eleanor Murkey is the Dean of the College of Lake County Campus in Waukegan, Illinois.
She is concerned with education and meeting the needs of the whole person. Her prime assumption that each person is born perfect and divinely provided with limitless potential. She is a native of Philadelphia, P.A., and has lived in the Waukegan area for the last thirty-five years. She was hired by CLC in 1976 as the Director of the Outreach Center. Since that time, Murkey has worked to bring many of the College of Lake County services and programs to the Waukegan area. Due to Murkey's leadership and community based support, the Lakeshore Educational Center was made a branch campus of the College of Lake County by the Illinois Community College Board in 1985 Securing branch campus status for Lakeshore allows the College of Lake County to provide complete degree programs at the Waukegan site and increase its services to residents of the Northeast corner of Lake County. Murkey's leadership has lead to the expansion of the Lakeshore Campus to a new state of the art facility, which offers a greater array of courses and services in the downtown Waukegan. Among the exciting additions a child care center, a full service bookstore, comprehensive registration and counseling services, fully equipped science and basic nursing assistant laboratories and free sheltered parking. Murkey is one of the most requested speakers of the CLC Speakers Bureau. She is a popular speaker for community, social, and church organizations. She presents techniques for developing one's potential, releasing the free, full flow of life through the individual, so that he/she may experience Good Life and Good Living. A topic that is likely to come up on conversation is her belief in the potential of the human spirit. Ms. Murkey classified as (EMH), Educational Mental Handicap during her elementary and secondary education, and points to herself as she encourages young people to stretch beyond ordinary expectations. Ms. Murkey is a graduate of Northeastern Illinois University and National College of Education. She serves on many civic and social committees, boards and foundations. She is a member of the NAACP, National Association of Black School Educators, The Association for Adult & Continuing Education, Illinois Adult Continuing Educators Association, the National Association of College Administrators, the Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women, Universal Associates, American Association of Women in Community and Junior Colleges and the Universal Foundation for Better Living. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is on the National Steering Committee for Enhancing Black Students Success in the Community college, Illinois Guardianship & Advocacy Commission and the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. |
