The Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition Board of Directors

Edith Thrower, President – Member-at-Large

Cheryl Meadows, Vise President – Cincinnati Human Relations Commission

Bishop E. Lynn Brown, Immediate Past President - Member-at-Large

Fulton Jefferson, Jr., Treasurer – Avondale Community Council

Louise Lawarre, Secretary – Greater Anderson Promotes Peace

Verneida Britton - Co-Chair King Legacy Awards Breakfast (NURFC)

Homa Yavar - Co-Chair King Legacy Awards Breakfast (MLK Coalition) – Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati

Shakila T. Ahmad – Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati

Karen J. Dabdoub – Council on American- Islamic Relations – Ohio Chapter

Pastor Vera Cole – Keys of the Kingdom United Methodist Church

Charles Davis, Jr. – National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Rabbi Gary P. Zola, Ph.D. − Greater Cincinnati Board of Rabbis

Rev. Eugene Godhigh – Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance

Dan M. Griffith, IV – COPA, Coalition of Political Assassinations

Nina M. Jackson Gates – BRIDGES for a Just Community

Dr. Ericka King-Betts – YWCA of Greater Cincinnati

Louise Akers, SC – Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati

Hershel J. Daniels, Jr. – Member-at-Large

Wanda Lloyd Daniels – Member-at-Large

Roberta “Robin” Lee – Member-at-Large

Dr. Nancy Savage – Member-at-Large

Laverne Johnson – Member-at-Large

Willa Carlock – Member-at-Large

Robert Harris – Member-at-Large

Jan Kravitz – Member-at-Large

Christina Brown – Public Allies

Nickol Mora – United Way

Kathleen Buckley – United Way

Joyce Kinley – The AMOS Project

Sha-Ron Wilson – MetLife Resources

Dante Melson – Sinai Temple No. 59

Roy L. Goosbey – Sinai Temple No. 59

Rev. Marcella Smith – Bethel Baptist Church

Martha Viehmann – Eastern Hills Friends Meeting

Dr. Catherina Roma – MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir

Carol Carder Krehbiel – FOR, Fellowship of Reconciliation

Maxwillian J. Saekilewis – Martin Luther King, Jr. Spiritual Center

Elder Edward L. White – True Holiness Church of God of Mt. Auburn

Harold Wright – Cincinnati African American Fire Fighters Association

Standing Committees

King Legacy Awards Breakfast, Committee

Homa Yavar, Chairperson
Edith Thrower                                                                                                                                          
Dr. Ericka King-Betts

Publicity Committee

Ms. Sha-Ron R Wilson, Chairperson
Dr. Ericka King-Betts

Fundraising Committee

Nina Jackson Gates
Carol Carder Krehbiel