Marquis Brown
Managing Director, Higher Education Group

Marquis Brown is Co-Founder of the National Center for Global Engagement (NCGE) and Managing Director of NCGE’s Higher Education Group. Marquis graduated from Hampton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and studied abroad at University College, Oxford University. Upon graduation Marquis was a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Global Operations Team where he focused on business development and strategy. Marquis was later appointed to serve as Assistant Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland where he was responsible for the oversight of several city agencies, recommended and developed various policy initiatives, and managed a myriad of the Mayor’s priorities. In 2008, Marquis entered the world of social entrepreneurship when he founded the BrownBell Foundation. Not long after, Marquis decided to pursue a graduate degree in Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Anthony Jewett
Managing Director, K-12 Education Group

Anthony Jewett is Co-Founder of the National Center for Global Engagement (NCGE) and Managing Director of NCGE’s K-12 Education Group. Anthony founded the Bardoli Global Scholars Program in 2005 to provide global leadership and professional development opportunities for outstanding African American, Latino, and Native American youth through study abroad and service learning. From 2003-2005, Anthony served as a bilingual elementary school teacher in New York City with Teach for America. He has studied and worked abroad on a variety of assignments in South America, West Africa, China, and the Middle East. He is a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow and serves on the boards of the Collaborative for Diversity in Education Abroad and the editorial advisory board of International Educator magazine. Anthony earned a B.A. in International Studies from Morehouse College in 2003 where his passion for study abroad and community service earned him both the Freeman-Asia and Benjamin Gilman awards from the Institute of International Education. He is currently a Fellow in community and family philanthropy at The Zeist Foundation in Atlanta.

Felecia Williams
Senior Research Fellow

Felecia D. Williams, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science in the History/Political Science Department at Virginia Union University. She has made numerous presentations in the areas of internationalization efforts, disparity issues, and issues affecting the urban population. She teaches courses in American Government, Research Methods, Comparative Politics, Urban and Metropolitan Politics, and Public Administration. Prior to her current academic appointment, she taught as an adjunct at the University of Richmond, Virginia State University and at Piedmont Virginia Community College where she was selected as a Virginia Council for International Education faculty delegate to the United Kingdom. She earned her Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MPA from the University of Virginia.

Alana Laudone
National Volunteer Coordinator

Alana Laudone is a Phi Beta Kappa 2006 graduate of Amherst College, majoring in Asian Languages and Civilizations, with an additional distinction in International Relations. Post-Amherst, she spent a year in Xinjiang, China on a Fulbright Scholarship researching ethnic issues from the focal point of educational opportunities. She followed her Fulbright grant with a year in Boston as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group working across multiple industries and geographic regions. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese and conversational in Spanish, Alana is proud of and very grateful for the many opportunities she has had to travel, study, work, and volunteer abroad in Asia, Central America, Africa, and Europe.

Therese Parker
Office Administrator

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Mr. Geoffrey R. Bennett Producer National Public Radio	Mr. Reginald Canal Senior Vice President HSBC Bank	Mr. Lu Duong Manager, GMSP Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Fulton C. Eaglin Principal Pegasys Strategy and Development	Mr. Duarte Geraldino Reporter Fox 26 News	Mr. David Haines Regional CO2 Policy Advisor Shell Exploration & Production
Mr. Alex J. Williams III Principal Aj Williams Design Co.	Mr. Jason Morimoto Vice President Citigroup Global Markets	Mr. Lawrence Randolph Foreign Service Officer U.S. Department of State
Ms. Laura Shmishkiss Senior Director of Programs Coro New York Leadership	Mr. Stuart Walker Talent Recruiter Monster.com	Ms. Kathi Wilkes CEO Wilkes Associates Group