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ABFE’s 2009-2010 Class

C. Milano Harden

C. Milano Harden is president and principal of the Genius Group, Inc (TGG). Harden has extensive training in leadership development and organizational effectiveness, nonprofit management & strategy, program evaluation, cultural diversity and inclusion and community health improvement. Carmen Balentine Carmen Balentine is the Program Officer of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation. As Program Officer, Carmen manages substantive components of Hazen’s youth development and public education grant making portfolio. He also serves on the executive committee of the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing advisory board.
Deborah E. Bennett Deborah E. Bennett has more than 18 years of experience as a community development practitioner.  She is currently a Senior Program Officer at the Polk Bros. Foundation, where she is a program area leader for workforce development, affordable housing and community economic development.  Edith Njuguna Edith Njuguna is a Program Officer at Grand Victoria Foundation in Chicago where her responsibilities include grantmaking in education, environment and economic development. 
George Suttles George Suttles is a program officer with the New York State Health Foundation where he focuses on developing and managing grantmaking programs for the Foundation's Special Projects Fund. Kirkston Tyrone Spann Kirkston Tyrone Spann is the Director of Programming for the Foundations of East Chicago.  His duties include overseeing the grant operations of the foundation along with managing its scholarship program.  He is also an adjunct business professor for Ivy Tech Community College.
Kelly Guy Kelly Guy is Child Welfare Partnership Advisor (Deputy Director) with Casey Family Programs where she works in the Child Welfare Partnership Unit after having spent four years working as the Prevention and Family Support Manager LaToria Willis LaToria (Tori) L. Willis is manager of donor relations for the Greater New Orleans Foundation. She currently serves on the boards of the Young Leadership Council, New Orleans Women’s Shelter and Save Our Schools NOLA. 
Shannon Polk Shannon Polk is currently an associate program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan. She is a member of the Flint Area team and her grantmaking includes areas of youth, housing, education, arts and race relations.  Vonda Paige Vonda Paige is the executive director of the Tavis Smiley Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles that provides leadership training and development for teens. She is responsible for ensuring that the non-profit achieves its mission and provides leadership in program development, administrative and fiscal management.