Priscilla Bullock, Board Chair
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC)
Priscilla is a tax partner at PwC with more than 16 years of experience providing tax compliance, tax consulting and tax accounting services to a wide-range of clients. Her experience has also included advising organizations on leading edge technology and practical approaches to how a tax function can operate across data, processes, technology and people, and leading the execution of tax function transformations.
In her role, Priscilla is responsible for leading teams in the preparation and audit of income tax provisions for public and private companies, including audits of internal controls. She also leads various tax compliance engagements, including the preparation and review of federal and state corporate, REIT and partnership income tax returns. Additionally, Priscilla’s practice includes consultation on the federal tax laws applying to debt issuance and restructuring including original issue discount, market discount and premium; securitization transactions; mark-to-market accounting; hedging transactions; and mortgage servicing rights.
Priscilla holds a BS in Accounting from North Carolina A&T State University and a Masters of Accountancy with a concentration in Taxation from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a licenced CPA in Virginia and North Carolina and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Black Accountants.
Priscilla has a passion for coaching and mentoring youth, particularly those who are underrepresented, and motivating them to strive for greatness and reach their full potential. This passion led her to the Community Bridges board in 2021.
Deirdre Robinson, Vice Chair
Vice President, Human Resources, The Donohoe Companies, Inc.
Deirdre is Vice President of Human Resources for Donohoe, the Washington, DC region’s oldest full-service real estate company. In this role, she is charged with increasing employee engagement while purchasing and delivering HR services efficiently. During her 26 years with Donohoe, the employee population has tripled to 1,400 employees across 100+ locations in the Washington, DC metro area, working in construction, hospitality, facilities management, property management, and development. Deirdre is also a member of the executive leadership team.
Deirdre holds a B.A. in political science from Vassar College, an M.B.A from George Mason University, and has HR certifications from the Society for Human Resource Management and the Human Resources Certification Institute. She is on the advisory committee for Bethesda Transportation Solutions and is a former board member and volunteer of Howard County, MD based non-profit, Success in Style. She has been a Maryland resident for 25 years and moved to Rockville, MD three years ago.
Kenneth Nelson, Treasurer
Director of Business and Community Outreach, Montgomery College
Kenneth Nelson has for more than 20 years served as the director of business and community outreach at Montgomery College’s Workforce Development and Continuing Education unit. For the past 11 years, he also has served as pastor of Seneca Community Church in Germantown, MD. Kenneth’s board and association experience includes American Cancer Society of North Nashville, the Black Ministers Conference of Montgomery County, Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Council, numerous chambers of commerce, and more. Kenneth has an M.A in Communications and a B.S. Health Sciences. He brings strong connections to the faith community and spoke about engaging members of his church in the work we’re doing. Doing so would support our outreach to more diverse communities, one of our strategic goals.
Jennifer Creighton, Board Secretary
Anthem Inc.
Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry with expertise in strategy, operations, and finance. In her current role as Staff Vice President of Risk Adjustment for Anthem Inc., she develops holistic strategies to optimize quality programs and risk score accuracy for twenty-four Medicaid Health Plans. Jennifer also lends her risk adjustment proficiency and industry knowledge to Medicare and Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans.
Prior to her current role, Jennifer held leadership positions in healthcare consulting, medical economics, and finance at UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, and BCBSMA. Outside of work, she enjoys playing golf, wine tasting, and spending time with friends. She earned a B.S. in Physiology from Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University, a graduate certificate in Community Health Services & Research Evaluation from Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, and a MBA from Wayne State University.
Kate Kennedy, Immediate Past Board Chair
Director of Development, Mid-Atlantic for Share our Strength
Kate Kennedy, MBA, CFRE has nearly 2 decades of expertise as a nonprofit executive in fundraising, community organizing, volunteer development, and membership recruitment. She is currently the Director of Development, Mid-Atlantic for Share our Strength, a national nonprofit that works to end childhood hunger.
She has also served as the Chief Development Officer of the League of Women Voters, and the Director of Development for the Washington School for Girls, a tuition-free private school serving girls from Anacostia, DC. Previously she served as Major Gifts Officer at Women for Women International. Kate also spent eight years at The Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital where she worked in membership, annual giving, major gifts.
In the fall of 2017, Kate won a competitive election for a seat as a City Council Member in College Park, MD and has since won reelection in 2019. She brings financial and business expertise to the post in a city that is rapidly growing. She is a certified fundraising executive (CFRE) and holds an MBA from Georgetown University. Her bachelor’s degree is in English and Women’s Studies from Keene State College in NH. She lives with her husband Bill and their rescue pitbull Seneca. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, gardening, and vegan cooking.
Brooke Ann Butler
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC)
Brooke is a Director with PwC’s Asset and Wealth Management Tax practice. She has 14 years of public accounting experience with PwC, providing federal tax compliance and consulting services to a variety of financial services clients. Brooke has developed tax technical and process management acumen on partnership taxation issues for private equity funds, fund managers, and GP entities. She has experience managing large engagements with multiple stakeholders. Brooke’s passion for innovation led her to complete a tour with PwC’s Products & Technology Labs practice, where she was involved in the development of technology solutions to enhance the client experience.
Brooke received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from The University of Maryland. She is a licensed CPA in New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Brooke joined the Community Bridges board in 2023.
Christina Taylor Serrano
President & CEO, TaylorMade Experience
Christina Taylor Serrano is President & CEO of TaylorMade Experience, an event management, strategic planning and fundraising firm she founded in 2008. With more than a decade of experience and a track record of creating value for her non-profit and for-profit clients, Christina is addicted to helping companies succeed. She has a history of producing winning strategies and proposals and has raised millions of dollars through corporate sponsorships and fundraising events. With each gala, conference, golf tournament, celebration and event, she’s patterned it to perfection, drawing on her expertise, energy and high standards. Christina believes every event deserves the same enthusiasm and professionalism, regardless of size and/or budget. For all of TME’s clients, Christina identifies and embraces new challenges and opportunities which lead them to higher performance levels and greater visibility.
When not running to and fro, Christina also volunteers for organizations she’s passionate about, including Habitat for Humanity, the Boys and Girls Club DC, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and previously was an advisory board member at Dress for Success, DC. To support other women owned businesses, Christina and TME have partnered with Her Corner in the Commit to Grow program which strengthens, encourages and awards female entrepreneurs. Christina lives with her husband and daughter in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Ericka Boone
Director, Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (NIH)
Boone leveraged her growing professional and mentoring relationships as she applied to several NIH positions, ultimately accepting a position in 2008 as a health scientist administrator within NIDA’s Office of Science Policy and Communications. Early exposure to science as a career, access to effective mentorship, reducing access and funding inequities, and reducing barriers to achieving successful career transitions are the pressing needs of the biomedical research workforce, said Boone, who conducted research at Emory University in Atlanta and at the University of Illinois in Chicago as an early stage investigator. Boone is also involved with UNITE, NIH’s initiative to identify and address structural racism. She is co-chair of a committee that is charged with evaluating and changing NIH policies, cultures, and structures to promote workforce diversity.
Leslie Heyer
President at Cycle Technologies
Leslie Heyer is the founder of Cycle Technologies, a socially minded consumer product and technology company focused on reproductive health. Cycle Technologies works with researchers and partners to bring to market innovative health technologies designed to help women manage their fertility and make better health decisions. Their contraceptive solutions have been used by millions of women around the world. Leslie has 20+ years of experience in marketing, business development, software development, and entrepreneurial management. She is dedicated to empowering women and girls globally and locally.
Prior to her life as a social entrepreneur, Leslie was on the founding management team of two software companies and managed advertising accounts for global brands. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Georgetown University.
Marina Major
President, Little Leaves Behavioral Services
Marina Major joined the founding team of Capital Education after 10 years with British Schools of America a leading provider of British style international education based here in Washington DC. Ms. Major served as both its CFO and COO and was responsible for starting up four schools in the U.S. and assisting in the development of its international school. Ms. Major had oversight and responsibility for all BSA operations, spearheaded its expansion and multimilllion dollar construction projects and served on the school’s board of directors. Previously, she was Director of Administration and International Operations for Micro Analytics Inc. a leading logistics software developer and was responsible for company-wide operations at BT Office Products, where she worked directly for the executive board on corporate development initiatives. Ms. Major received a B.B.A. from the College of William and Mary, majoring in marketing with a minor in Spanish, holds a certificate in accounting from the University of Virginia, and is currently a CPA in the State of Virginia.
Margo Reid
Partner Consultant with Capacity Partners
Margo is a Partner Consultant with Capacity Partners and brings a combination of creative flair and detail-oriented discipline to common challenges facing nonprofit organizations. She honed her management skills, community outreach, and consensus-building consulting on social action campaigns for issue-oriented films including Oscar-nominated documentaries, BULLY and How to Survive a Plague. Margo is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with twenty years’ experience in social and political film as a producer, director, and writer. After working as interim Executive Director of Rock Creek Conservancy, she now brings her consulting work to nonprofit growth and organization.
After all of the galas, in-home fundraisers, stream cleanup marathons, and mammoth charity yard sales; one of Margo’s most gratifying volunteer commitments is with Community Bridges. She mentored high-school senior Etsube from Ethiopia and sees this as a lifelong relationship. Additionally, she chaired boards in the arts, and education arenas and continues to support events and fundraising. She graduated Leadership Montgomery, SLM class of 2017, and works with LM moderating panels, planning programs, and screening BoardMatch candidates. Margo graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Speech Communications and Literature and an M.A. in Speech Communication.
Maryam Casbarro
Associate at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Maryam Casbarro, CIPP/US, is a cybersecurity and privacy litigator with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She helps her clients through counseling and advising on cybersecurity best practices, drafting incident response plans, overseeing legal response after a breach has occurred, and assisting clients with privacy litigation strategies and government investigations and regulatory compliance. Besides privacy and cybersecurity, Maryam is passionate about women’s rights and invested in fostering change with respect to issues that greatly affect youth, including, poverty, income and educational inequality, and juvenile criminal justice. Maryam immigrated from Accra, Ghana to the United States with her family when she was six years old. She grew up in Bronx, New York and attended Binghamton University. Maryam moved to the District of Columbia in 2011 to attend the George Washington University Law School and has been in the DMV since then.
Nicole Hoeflich
Director of Programs, Grantmakers Effective Organizations
Nichole Hoeflich is a director of programs at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations where she works to transform philanthropic culture and practice to better support nonprofits and thriving communities. As part of GEO’s program team, Nichole leads development on publications and content related to grantmaker practice and leads planning for GEO conferences and events. Additionally, she facilitates workshops and trainings for grantmakers about philanthropic culture and practice change.
Before joining GEO, Nichole worked at the Center for American Progress as a Graduate Student Fellow on their K-12 Education Policy team, where she supported research about the implementation of Common Core standards across the country. Prior to this, she taught high school social studies at Ivy Collegiate Academy, an international boarding school in Taichung City, Taiwan, where she also served as the dean of students and the social studies department chair.
Nichole earned her masters of science in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and her bachelor of arts in history and education from Clarke University.
Wendy Doernberg
Senior Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist, U.S. Government
Wendy is in her fifth year as a Community Bridges mentor. After having spent several years at various government agencies as an attorney-advisor, she began her current position as a Senior Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist with the federal government in October 2018. In her free time, she enjoys participating in an interfaith choir with Sixth and I Synagogue.