Folline Morris Cullen, CPA, Treasurer
Ms. Folline Cullen joined the ECSM Board in 2003 and is currently the Treasurer.
Ms. Cullen has formerly been the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, for six years, a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 organization. At the zoo, she and her team administered over 30 funds contributed through both the public and private sector totaling about $10 million. She also oversaw the admissions, gift shop, and rides operations. Ms. Cullen was responsible for the physical development and the maintenance of the campus, including animal exhibits. Before moving to The Maryland Zoo in 2000, Folline spent nearly twelve years at Deloitte & Touche LLP (New York), where she provided forensic, litigation, and audit services.
Ms. Cullen is active in the community. Ms. Cullen is also the Board President of Chesapeake Search Dogs an hundred percent volunteer organization. She enjoys hiking, gardening, and needlepoint.
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Fritz Schwarz
Fritz Schwarz joined the ECSM Board in 2004. His background is in corporate management, principally in the agriculture and food industries in the United States, Latin America and Asia. He has been employed by Monsanto Company, Ralston Purina Company and McCormick & Company in such businesses as agricultural chemicals, food ingredients, shrimp farming and spices and has held responsibilities in marketing, operations, new business development and procurement as well as serving on the boards of directors of several subsidiaries.
He has served on several industry and government committees and has taught in the graduate business schools of Washington University in St. Louis and Loyola University in Baltimore.
Before moving to Baltimore he also worked in inner city youth programs with Grace Episcopal Church and Trinity Parish, both in St. Louis.
Dr. Schwarz holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, a masters in Industrial Management from the Sloan School at MIT, and a Ph.D. in International Businesses and Economics from Saint Louis University.
He has been Senior Warden of Saint James Episcopal Church, Monkton, MD and is currently a member of the Baltimore Ethical Society.
George Wills, Ph.D.
Mr. George Wills joined the ECSM Board in July of 1997, where he as worked tirelessly to promoting the work of ECSM as he chairs Development Committee serves on the Executive Committee. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Wills & Associates, Inc. He has more than 30 years experience in the public affairs, corporate communications, government relations, and management counseling fields. His career includes professional assignments in business, government, and higher education. Mr. Wills received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 where he was Special Assistant to Milton S. Eisenhower, JHU president.
Mr. Wills has served on several boards which include USF&G Corporation, Legal Mutual Corporation, and AAA Mid-Atlantic Corporation, the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Kennedy Krieger Institute for Handicapped Children; the National 4-H Council; the National Aquarium; the Mid-Atlantic Center for Business Management, the International Visitors Center/USIA; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Paul’s School; a national trustee of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; He currently serves as a trustee of Washington College He is a founding trustee of the Foundation for Efficiency and Economy, a private sector commission on government management.
Mr. Wills has chaired or directed a variety of fundraising initiatives for national organizations, among them: The Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Museum; the National D-Day Museum; the Police Foundation; the American Land Trust; and the National Committee for a Balanced Federal Budget.
Mr. Wills is a watercolorist who has painted in Maryland, the coasts of Maine and England; he has exhibited at the Ward Center for the Arts; the Gibson Center for the Arts/Washington College; and annually at the Baltimore Watercolor Society and Choral Arts Society exhibits.
As a member Church of the Redeemer, he has served as Senior Warden, Junior Warden, Vestry member and Stewardship.
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The Reverend Gina Arents
The Reverend Gina Arents joined the ECSM Board in 2005. She graduated with honors from Goucher College, and, having subsequently studied at Johns Hopkins, was awarded a Ph.D. in Biophysics. After receiving her degree she worked at the Hopkins biology department, and it was here that she began to feel the call to diaconal ministry. Some years later, she took classes at the Ecumenical Institute at St. Mary’s Seminary, and hopes to finish her masters in theology in May of 2006.
Since being ordained, she works as a deacon, as a mentor in the first year of the diocesan discernment program, and as a community member of an internal review board that monitors ethics of research using human subjects for the John’s Hopkins School of Public Health.
Her work in the community has been the result of deacon training and ministry. Right up until the time she was ordained she worked on a three-month internship at the Assistance Center of Towson Churches (ACTC) and was soon on a first name basis with the homeless people the in Towson area. She also spent a year working at South Baltimore Homeless Shelter, which is a men’s residential recovery program, and was soon running a group for men who were in their first month of the program.
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James Dunbar
Mr. James Dunbar joined the ECSM Board in 2004. Mr. Dunbar is a partner at Venable LLP. He is a litigator who spends much of his time representing corporate executives and corporations in shareholder dispute and other high-stakes matters. He also has extensive experience in internal corporate investigations, regulatory proceedings, and in litigation involving land use, taxes, pension, and estates and trusts.
Mr. Dunbar devotes time to his community through work with ECSM and the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service and work on Haverford College alumni matters.
Mr. Dunbar received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1978 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1981. His is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia in 1985 and Maryland, 1981.
Jeffrey P. Ayres, President
Mr. Jeff Ayres joined the ECSM Board in 2002 and now serves as Board Chair. As a member of the Executive Committee, he is involved in all aspects of our work. His professional background with an emphasis in labor law has been particularly helpful to ECSM in its organizational transition over the years.
Mr. Ayres is a partner at Venable, LLP where he serves as Chair of the firm’s Ethics Committee. He is Past Chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, and is a frequent lecturer on Labor and Employment Law, including Employment Torts, Insurance Issues, and EEO Law, as well as Ethics Issues.
Mr. Ayres is listed in America’s Leading Business Lawyers and in The Best Lawyers in America. He is on the EEO Panel of Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association, and the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission Peer Review Committee. Mr. Ayres received his J.D. (high honors, Order of the Coif) from The National Law Center, George Washington University and his B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College.
Mr. Ayres is Parliamentarian for the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He is the immediate past Senior Warden of The Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore,and a member of Redeemer’s Personnel and Budget and Finance Committee, and Adult Choir.
Lisa O’Dell Rapuano
Ms. Lisa Rapuano joined ECSM in 2004. Ms. Rapuano is the portfolio manager and Chief Investment Officer of Lane Five Capital Management, an investment partnership she founded in 2006. Lisa spent nearly ten years at Legg Mason Funds, where she managed the Legg Mason Special Investment Trust, a $3.5 billion mutual fund. She also acted as Director of Research for the Legg Mason Funds group, headed by Bill Miller.
Lisa grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida and received a B.A. in American Studies from Yale in 1988, where she was an All-American swimmer in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events.
Ms. Rapuano and her husband Rich have three children, Nate, 9 Abby, 7 and Lily, 4. Nate and Abby attend McDonogh School. She is on the Vestry of her family’s church, the Church of the Redeemer, in Baltimore.
Elizabeth Boyce
Ms. Boyce joined ECSM in November 2004. She recently started working at Hill & Company, a Baltimore-based residential real estate firm, joining the team of Dorsey Campbell. Prior to that, Ms. Boyce was the Director of Development for DRADA (Depression & Related Affective Disorders Association) and was primarily responsible for the fund raising efforts of DRADA in identifying, cultivating and soliciting potential donors. Between 1996 and 2001, she worked for the Bethesda-based Association for Financial Professionals as the Director of Meetings & Exhibits.
Ms. Boyce graduated from Washington College in 1996 and served as the President of the DC Alumni Chapter for three years. Since 2001, she has been a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of Washington College. She is a member of the Student Affairs Committee & the Admissions and Financial Aid Committee Ms. Boyce served on the Presidential Search Committee of Washington College and the college’s Strategic Planning Committee. Ms. Boyce is also a member of the Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle.
Liz is married to G. Graham Boyce of Baltimore.
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Neva W. Brown, Vice-President
Mrs. Neva Brown joined the ECSM Board in 2003. Since her retirement from Verizon Communications as a manager in Internal Auditing, she has worked as a consultant, Wilkins-Brown, teaching for an international organization, The Institute of Internal Auditors. She has more than 30 years of business management experience in the telecommunication industry, where she was responsible for internal audits, employee training, and recruitment of candidates for the Corporate Finance Internal Audit Department, Using a consultative approach, she provided staff support in the areas of compensation guidance, employee relations consulting, training, and leadership development.
Mrs. Brown is affiliated with two national women’s organizations, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. She has served as an officer in both organizations and has served as the chair of a non-profit organization Myrtle Tyler Faithful Fund, Inc., which provides scholarships to college bound students. . Currently she serves as the Chair for the Board of Directors of a non-profit organization, Penn North Plaza, Inc., a 66-unit senior citizen housing development. She has a Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science degree in Education (Magna cum Laude) from Morgan State University. She is a Distinguished Faculty Member of The Institute of Internal Auditors.
As a member of St. Katherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church, she serves as the Junior Warden, Stewardship Committee Chair, and president of Episcopal Church Women’s Guild.
Nona G. Diggs
Ms. Nona Diggs joined the ECSM Board in 2000 and is currently working with the Board Development Committee. At present, Ms. Diggs is employed by Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Juvenile Division.
For over ten years, Ms. Diggs served as the Community Manager for Penn North Plaza Senior Citizen Building under the management of Edgewood Management Company. There she promoted, developed, and coordinated procedures and activities for the senior population. Ms. Diggs was able to obtain a 5-year grant for an onsite Service Coordinator to assist senior residents to maintain independent living.
Recognizing the health care needs for senior citizens and the barriers to access preventive health care, Ms. Diggs organized health education programs and health fairs with on-site screenings at Senior Citizen’s facilities. Additionally, Ms. Diggs property management skills led her to serve as an Ombudsman for the Baltimore City Housing Authority.
Ms. Diggs brings a very strong presence of her community involvement within the Baltimore Metropolitan area where she currently serves as a member of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority Inc. /Business and Professional Woman’s Sorority, as Treasurer, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. /Myrtle Tyler Faithful Fund, Inc./ Advisory Council, Consultant to Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - Building Committee, and Sisters Network Inc. Breast Cancer Support Group/ Board and Charter member. Sisters Network Inc.which is geared to the African American population, also supports the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer organization and the American Cancer Society. Ms. Diggs also serves on the Board of Directors for two Senior Citizen Apartments Penn North Plaza and M.N. Carroll Manor United Methodist.
Ms. Diggs is a life member of St. Katherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church where she serves as the first Female Senior Warden in the history of the church.
Paul C. Corbin
Mr. Paul Corbin joined the ECSM Board in 2004. He is a Partner at Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Co. In addition to serving as an ECSM officer, he is active in University of Virginia Alumni Association.
As a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, he serves as Junior Warden, Lay Chalicist and confirmation teacher. Mr. Corbin holds a BA from University of Virginia, '74 and an MBA George Washington University, '81.
The Reverend Scott Slater
The Reverend Scott Slater joined the ECSM Board in 2002. He has been Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Towson, Maryland since 2001. Prior to coming to Baltimore, he has served churches in Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Washington, DC.
He holds a Master of Arts in Christian Education and a Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary as well as a Doctorate of Ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary.
He has witnessed two family members suffer and die from substance abuse, so he cares deeply about the success of the Jericho Project as well as the many ways ECSM serves those in physical, emotional or spiritual need.
