Children's Futures Board of Directors represents a mix of local and national experts on a wide range of fields. Here are brief bios about members of the Children's Futures' Board of Directors:

Officers:

Chair

Kendell Sprott, M.D., J.D. Acting Chairman of Pediatrics and is the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He teaches pediatrics in various medical university hospitals and serves on state and national boards throughout the country. Dr. Sprott has a Bachelor of Science degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, a medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a law degree from Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey.

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Vice Chair

John J. Korsah is executive director, financial products of the Enterprise Media Group at Dow Jones & Company in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Korsah has extensive background in the areas of strategic and financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions and business plan development. Prior to joining Dow Jones & Company in 2003, he held progressively responsible positions at Gemstar-TV Guide International in New York including vice-president, business development. He has also been associate director of financial planning and analysis for the Children's Television Workshop, manager of financial planning and analysis for Home Box Office and senior business assurance analyst for Coopers and Lybrand, all in New York City. In addition to serving on the Children's Futures' Board, Mr. Korsah is a member of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (Dow Jones chair), Princeton Alumni Schools Committee, Princeton Varsity Club and a lifetime member of the Princeton Department of Athletics. He received his A.B in architecture from Princeton University and both of his masters' degrees (M.S. in accounting and M.B.A. with a concentration in finance and marketing) at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

 

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Treasurer

Allen C. Lamboy is vice president of the JP Morgan Chase Community Development Real Estate Group in Hamilton, New Jersey. Mr. Lamboy has extensive experience in the fields of financing and economic and community development. Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase, he served as associate director for financial services at the Non Profit Finance Fund in Philadelphia. Mr. Lamboy has also been a program officer with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation where he served as the childcare and economic development specialist under the New Jersey Multi-City Program. His long history of dedication to children and families includes volunteer service on the New Jersey Health Care Advisory Council, the New Jersey Childcare Industry Economic Impact Council and the Starting Points for Children Board of Directors. Mr. Lamboy received his bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey and a master's degree in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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President and CEO

Floyd K. Morris, Jr. is President of Children's Futures (CF). Mr. Morris leads the initiative's efforts to strengthen parenting, increase access to primary quality health care and child care systems and increase social supports for families, so that every child in Trenton enters preschool healthy and ready to learn. Prior to becoming CF's president in May 2006, Mr. Morris was a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), where he had responsibility for some of the foundation's largest community-based initiatives, including Fighting Back, the Urban Health Initiative, the After School Project, Join Together, and several other programs. He has also served on the Foundation's Vulnerable Populations and Childhood Obesity program management teams. He joined the RWJF in 1989 as a financial officer, having worked previously as an assistant administrator for United Medical Center in Newark. In 1996 he became a program officer at RWJF and was promoted to the senior program officer position in 2000. Mr. Morris earned a master of health administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. from Salem College in West Virginia.

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Secretary

Michelle DeKlyen, Ph.D. has been an associate research scholar at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University since 2001. Dr. DeKlyen has taught at Princeton University and the University of Washington School of Medicine. An expert in the fields of child development, early childhood behavior disorders, and parent-child attachment, she serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology and has been a consulting editor for numerous publications including Child Development, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and the Infant Mental Health Journal. She has also served for the past two years on Newark's Council on Family Success, a group convened by Mayor Cory Booker to guide Newark in setting priorities and initiating policies and programs to improve the well-being of children and families. Dr. DeKlyen received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Stanford University and a master's degree in special education from the University of Oregon. She is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in child clinical psychology from the University of Washington.

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Other Board Members:

Irving Bradley, Jr. is Police Director of Trenton. He has served in that post since 2008. Prior to that time he was Trenton’s Director of Communications. Director Bradley previously served as the Chief of Police in Newark as part of a 20-year career that took him through the ranks of patrolman, investigator, and police management executive. In his role as Trenton’s Police Director, he has worked closely with Children’s Futures to ensure that children who witness domestic abuse are provided the support they need to reduce the impact of the trauma they experienced. Director Bradley graduated from Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral Science.

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Dr. Thompson Fullilove has provided lectureships nationally and internationally on topics such as urbanism, building healthy communities, HIV/AIDS, a child's environment, women issues, strengthening families and preventive health behaviors. Dr. Thompson Fullilove is also very well published through books and journals. Her most recent book is entitled Root Shocks: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts American and What We Can Do About, Ballantine Books, New York 2004 and The Black Family: Mental Health Perspectives edited volume of conference paper by The Black Task Force, 1984.

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Eleanor V. Horne, is vice president Educational Testing Service (ETS) Social Investment Fund. The Fund supports projects that improve the teaching and learning of English as a second language, help close achieve-ment gaps in education, and help individuals make effective transitions from one educational level to another and from school to work. Ms. Horne is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Donald H. McGannon Award from the National Urban League and the Princeton YWCA's Tribute to Women in Industry Achievement Award. In 2005, the March of Dimes of New Jersey honored her for her advocacy and volunteerism. Ms. Horne has a B.A., from Howard University and has completed her coursework for a Doctorate in Educational Anthropology at Rutgers University.

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Rodney Lofton is Superintendent of the Trenton, New Jersey Public School District in Trenton, New Jersey. Immediately prior to his appointment, he was experience included service as a Deputy Superintendent in the Mount Vernon, New York School District. Mr. Lofton's career in education began as a Teacher of Special Education in the areas of emotionally disturbed and learning disabilities in New York City. He subsequently served as an Assistant Principal and Principal in the New York City Public Schools. He has worked in districts ranging from 2,000 students to 32,000 students. Mr. Lofton holds a master's degree in education from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in marketing research from Bernard Baruch College.

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Sherea McKenzie, Esq. is the Executive Director of the Joint City/County Commission on Children in Houston, Texas. Ms. McKenzie has extensive experience as an attorney in the fields of children's advocacy, education, social services, family law and public policy. In addition to serving on the Children's Futures' Board, she is also a member of the boards of the Center for Hearing and Speech, the Education Foundation of Harris County, the Center for Public Policy Priorities, the Texas Network of Youth Services, Houston's Downtown Management District, and the American Bar Association's Presidential Advisory Council for Diversity in the Profession. Ms. McKenzie received her Juris Doctorate from Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and she received a BA in Public Administration from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Wayne J. Nixon, is CEO and president of Carpediem Capital, Inc. Previously, Mr. Nixon was with the Private Business Group in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. where he was a founding member. Before joining Kidder, Mr. Nixon was in the Corporate Finance Division at Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette Securities Corporation ("DLJ"), where he performed financial analyses for leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and the placement of debt and equity transactions. His other work experience includes manufacturing operations at Johnson & Johnson and active duty military service. Mr. Nixon received an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of Business. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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The Rev. Toby D. Sanders, M Div.is Pastor and President of Trenton’s Beloved Community Church. He is also a teacher and a social activist for economic and educational justice and faith-based community development. As a Christian education specialist and advocate, he works on behalf of families and children who face the severest challenges in society. The Rev. Sanders is an honors graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., and holds a Master’s of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University where he was awarded the prestigious President’s Fellowship Award.

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Gregory Seaton, Ph.D. has been an Assistant Professor at College of New Jersey since 2004 in the Department of Education, Administration, and Secondary Education. Dr. Seaton has extensive experience in research in male relationships particularly in the African-American communities. He is well published in journals such a the Journal Human Behavioral in the Social Environment, Research in Human Development, Handbook of Positive Child Development, Adolescence and Education and Educational Forum. The topics of his articles range from understanding males to the relationship between African-American fathers with their preschool children. Dr. Seaton holds Ph.D. in Education Leadership and Human Development from the University of Pennsylvania, and two masters from Brown University and Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Seaton resides in Cherry Hill with his wife and two children (an infant & a toddler).

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Tyrome E. Smith is an organizational effectiveness and development expert who has served in senior positions at Home Box Office, SENSA Solutions, Keane Federal Systems, Eagle Alliance, Training Resource Group, Inc., Johnson, Bassin and Shaw, Inc. and The Tenkan Group. He received his bachelor's degree in speech communications from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in human communication at Howard University. Mr. Smith and his family reside in East Windsor .

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Caroline Purnell Tompkins is an admissions officer at Thomas Edison State College, an adjunct professor of French at Mercer County Community College and a part-time staff member in the Development/Audience Services department at McCarter Theatre in Princeton. A member of Leadership Trenton Alumni Association, Ms. Tompkins also serves on the boards of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Mercer and the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Jersey. In addition, she is a community volunteer for Princeton Community Works, UIH Family Partners and past chair of the June Fete annual fundraiser for the University Medical Center at Princeton. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French at Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., and a master’s degree in Education from Rider University.

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