WE'RE ELIMINATING RACISM & EMPOWERING WOMEN
​with a dynamic board of directors

Our board of directors makes a real difference in the lives of women and people of color in the Charleston region, working hard behind the scenes to enable our programs, from our annual MLK Celebration to our annual What Women Bring event. We can't thank this passionate, talented group of women enough! 

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KENDRA SNIPE
YWCA.GC Board Chair

A board member since 2015 and a native of Johns Island, Kendra originally joined our board to serve as an under-30 member, and quickly rose to leadership. Now one of our youngest board chairs, she graduated from Columbia College in Columbia, SC, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology with minors in communications and Spanish. 

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She went on to graduate school at Georgia School of Professional Psychology and again at Webster University to become a master level-trained professional in counseling, human resources development, and management & leadership. Her education and experience both allow her to promote behavioral change, build training programs, and improve organizational processes. 

Kendra currently serves as a college recruiting coordinator at Nucor Corporation, where she supports more than 300 Nucor divisions and 30,000-plus teammates,  attracting world-class talent to the steel industry.

Kendra has served as YWCA.GC board vice chair, secretary, Organizational Leadership Committee chair and Governance Committee member.

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JENNIFER DUNLAP
YWCA.GC Board Vice Chair

A board member since 2017, Jennifer is one of two founding members of the Charleston office of law firm Baker Donelson, one of the largest law firms in the nation. She is a 1997 graduate of Southern Methodist University and a 2000 graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law.   

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Prior to joining Baker Donelson in September 2022, Jenni was a partner at the law office of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP where she practiced employment law represented clients in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proceedings and federal and state court cases involving all aspects arising out of the employment relationship. She served as an advisor to businesses on all issues related to employment, including drafting policies and agreements as well as best practices for hiring, background checks, employee classification, performance management, leave issues, internal investigations, wage and hour compliance, workforce reductions, and diversity and inclusion.

Jenni serves as the chair-elect of the South Carolina Bar's Labor and Employment Section. She was selected as one of the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s Forty under 40 in 2013 and a South Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star in Employment Litigation: Defense, 2012-2015.

Jenni is also a graduate of Leadership South Carolina's 2021-2022 program. She has served on the boards of the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry and the Junior League, and participated as a speaker in YWCA.GC's Career Success Series program for women.

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JANET HART
YWCA.GC Board Secretary

A board member since 2019, Janet has also served as co-chair of our What Women Bring event. A business development leader with a broad operations and product management background who enjoys solving puzzles to drive positive change for customers, she currently leads products for Amazon's print-on-demand division.  

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Previously she served in seven roles at Blackbaud, including running its global sales operations, building a new marketing operations team, and leading a back-office transformation as its director of operational excellence.  
 
Janet and her husband Greg are the proud parents of one daughter, Margot. She has been a YWCA.GC board member since 2019.

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COURTNEY JOHNSON
YWCA.GC Board Treasurer

A board member since 2019 and a group insurance executive for more than 20 years, Courtney is the regional vice president of distribution for national accounts at Fortune 500 firm Prudential Financial, where she helps others with life, disability, and other insurance needs.    

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Courtney enjoys coaching and mentoring children as well as volunteering to help the homeless. For six years she served as a mentor for children as part of Omaha TeamMates Mentoring, which provides mentors for thousands of students across five states, and as a girls track coach for the Amateur Athletic Union, a nonprofit providing inclusive sports programs for all participants of all ages through the efforts of more than 150,000 volunteers. For two years she also taught children in the Schools on Wheels program in Huntington Beach, California. 

She is a member of the Charleston, SC Chapter of The Links, Inc., and was previously a member of the Omaha chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, a nonprofit seeking to empower black women and girls in the areas of economic wellbeing, education, and health.   

She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is the proud pet parent of a rescue dog named CoCo, with whom she enjoys running 5Ks.

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JUDGE TAMARA C. CURRY
YWCA.GC Past Board Chair,
Chair, Governance Committee

A board member since 2015, Tamara was appointed associate probate judge for Charleston County in August of 1998. A native Charlestonian, she is a graduate of South Carolina State University and a 1988 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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She was admitted into the practice of law in Ohio in 1988 and South Carolina in 1992. In addition to her duties as associate probate judge, she has been appointed to preside over four additional courts: the Charleston County Adult Drug Court in 1992, the Charleston County Mental Health Court in 2003, the Charleston County Juvenile Drug Court in 2010, and the Charleston County Veterans Court in 2019. 

She was inducted as the first African American president of the National College of Probate Judges in 2017.

​Tamara serves on the Board of Trustees for Allen University and has served as a past board chair for The Centers for Heirs Property Preservation and for Mental Health for Heroes. She is currently serving as the Southern Area Chair for Ethics and Standards for The Links, Incorporated.

She has chaired the YWCA.GC Personnel and Bylaws Committees, and currently serves on the Finance, Governance, and Strategic Planning committees.

​Tamara is a faithful member of Mount Carmel African American Church, where she is an advisor of the Young People’s Division, Missionary Society, and Church Outreach Ministry.

She is married to Reverend Eduardo K. Curry, Esquire, the managing partner of The Curry Law Firm, LLC. She is also the proud mother of three children, Eduardo II, Morgan, and Xavier, and grandmother to Olivia Jade, Cora Jane, and Melody Elizabeth.

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RADIA BAXTER
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2016, Radia is the director of education and programs at the Charleston County Detention Center, where she is responsible for the development and implementation of programs to empower and prepare adult and juvenile residents for workforce development and successful re-entry into society.

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​Radia holds a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the College of Charleston. 

​In addition to having served as chair of the YWCA.GC Program Committee, Radia is a board member of the Royal Foundation, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, and Project Man Up, as well as first vice chair of the Charleston County Democratic Party.

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NATASHA CHISOLM
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2019 and an attorney who specializes in helping families navigate legal problems, Natasha is currently a sole practitioner at The Chisolm Law Firm, and previously served as an assistant solicitor in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office, where she prosecuted a wide range of misdemeanor and felony cases in Charleston County. 

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She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she also received a certificate in family law. 

Natasha is licensed to practice law in both South Carolina and federal courts. She is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association, South Carolina Black Lawyers Association, the Charleston County Bar Association, Royal Missionary Baptist Church, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 

She has previously served as president of the Zonta Club of Charleston, an organization focusing on the elimination of domestic violence and human trafficking, and president of the Charleston Trident Urban League’s Young Professionals Network. She has served as a mentor for Meeting Street Academy and volunteered with the Junior Girls Day Out Community Project.

She currently serves on the board of Art Forms and Theatre Concepts, Charleston's premier African American theatre company, and is both a notary public and a certified guardian ad litem representing and advocating for children in contested custody disputes. 

ARDMEASE CUNNINGHAM
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2016, Ardmease is a parent advocate and outreach professional with Charleston Development Academy, a public charter school in downtown Charleston. She serves as a liaison between the school and home, encourages parental involvement and participation in school programs, and provides assistance to students’ families in areas of school-related concerns for the school's 4th to 8th grades.  

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Ardmease holds master of arts degrees in both human resource development and counseling from Webster University.

​She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Charleston Chapter of Jack & Jill of America, and the Charleston Chapter of the Links, Inc.

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KENYA DUNN
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2022, Kenya founded her own consultancy after a stint as vice president of retail sales at T-Mobile, where she was one of the few women executives in the company, an active advocate for diversity and inclusion, a mentor to multiple women, and an inspiration to many. 

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Today she concentrates entirely on coaching women for success as chief executive officer of The Power Filled Woman, and also serves as fractional chief operating officer for Life tagger, Inc., an African American technology startup, where she mentors the founders while preparing the company to scale up.  

The recipient of the 2020 #WhatWomenBring award in the business category and the 2021 Like a Girl: Dare to Dream award, she was also the 2019 nominee of Black Entertainment Television Network’s Women in Corporate America award. She holds a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of Phoenix.

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ADRIANNE GRIMES
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2022, former TV news producer Adrianne Grimes is the director of marketing and communications for the South Carolina Research Authority. She previously led external affairs and marketing communications for the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Center for Telehealth. While at MUSC, she founded Telehealth Awareness Week, which was adopted by the American Telemedicine Association. 

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Adrianne also serves on the boards of the South Carolina Public Relations Society of America, Dorchester Two Educational Foundation, and Charleston Youth Leadership Council, Inc. She holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of South Carolina and a master of science from The Citadel Graduate College.  

Adrianne and her husband Randy are the proud parents of three children: Erika, Morgan, and Jared-Benjamin.

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BELITA M. GREEN
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2015 and our previous board treasurer, Belita has 20+ years of HR and banking experience. She is a graduate of Charleston Southern University, where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in English, and a member of the Charleston (SC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.

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Belita and her husband Leonard are the proud parents of two daughters, Kirsten and Kayla.  

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CAROL A. JACKSON
YWCA.GC Board Member

Carol, a board member since 2022, a former City of Charleston Council member, and a retired executive with 40 years of experience in nonprofit management, served as the Council’s human resources chair from 2018 to 2021 and as the City of Charleston Mayor Pro Tempore in 2021. 

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She was also the founder and only female president of the public/private partnership nonprofit that was the precursor to the City of Falls Church VA Economic Development Commission, and the originator and first president of her Falls Church community first overnight winter shelter to prevent hypothermia among the homeless population. She has served on a host of boards and committees, including a term as vice chair of the Charleston Commission on Women, and graduated cum laude from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor’s degree.
 
“I look forward to seeing the day when all children love their own skin and never encounter situations that would lead them to believe any less of themselves,” Carol says. She also enjoys supporting women “to find and solidify their firm footing wherever they choose to walk, while they grow and spread their wings to fly far beyond any vision I have for their future.”

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CRYSTAL T. ROBINSON ROUSE
YWCA.GC Board Member

A board member since 2022 and a community advocate passionately committed to social justice, Crystal serves as director of collective action networks for Tri County Cradle to Career as well as director of the Center for the Education and Equity of African American Students at the University of South Carolina. 

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Among other honors, she was named one of South Carolina Black Pages’ 2021 Top 20 Under 40. She holds a master’s degree in adult and community education from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and a master of education degree in early childhood education from the University of South Carolina, where she is currently pursuing a doctorate of philosophy. 

​Crystal, who serves as president of the National Council of Negro Women’s Bethune Leonard Section in addition to roles on many other boards and committees, says she will consider racism eliminated when all systems operate from a racial equity lens and when all decisions, policies, procedures, and practices are racially equitable. 

“True empowerment for women comes when actions align with words of empowerment,” she adds. “Empowering women means helping each other fix our crowns and hold our heads high in the face of adversity.”

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Interested in serving?

We elect our board of directors from a diverse community representative of our members. All board members are eligible to serve for two 3-year terms. Elections are held annually.

For more information about becoming a YWCA.GC board member, please contact our executive director.  

ABOUT YWCA.GC

For 114 years, YWCA Greater Charleston has worked to eliminate racism and empower women in South. Carolina's Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester Counties. 

A historic local association of YWCA USA, one of the oldest and largest multicultural women’s organizations in America, we seek to create opportunities for personal growth, leadership, and economic development for women, girls, and people of color.

Our annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration is one of Charleston’s longest running events, predating Spoleto Festival USA and other events. One of the first MLK tributes in the nation, today it attracts thousands of celebrants each year. 

We also work to eliminate racism with our annual Stand Against Racism. 

In 2016 we brought the first Girls Who Code club for middle school girls to Charleston; our subsequent Y Girls Code program has since expanded to female students of all ages. 

In 2017,we brought the Racial Equity Institute, an ongoing program, to Charleston to help local leaders understand and address racism in the community, along with Own the Room annual public speaking workshops to empower women’s business success by improving their public speaking skills. 

In 2018, we introduced What Women Bring, an annual power lunch attended by hundreds to celebrate and empower South Carolina’s women in business, community, and culture. 

In 2019, we brought the SheStrong program into its fold to empower high school girls to develop as leaders and changemakers, and launched its Choose Well program, designed to reduce unintended pregnancies in girls and women. 

In 2020, we introduced WE 360°, a multi-week program designed to help women of color overcome barriers in entrepreneurship.

Please follow us online as we announce new programs and events!

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