
Social Justice Initiatives
Southeastern North Carolina is plagued with challenges relative to race relations, socioeconomics, social injustices, and absence of fair ethnic inclusion. The Mt. Calvary Center’s Social Justice Initiatives are designed to create a platform for a diversified panel of community leaders of various ethnicities. The initiative actively engages in candid, yet healthy dialogue centered on rooted behaviors and systematic oppression that presents both immediate and residual negative effects on minorities including ethnicity, gender, low-income, LGBTQ, and other groups. Such dialogues will derive specific outcomes to enhance cohesiveness and engagement.
The initiative will address fairness in civic engagement, economic development, wages and rehabilitative opportunities. The inclusion of diversity will enhance the attentiveness of stockholders to improve the organizations and communities which they represent. Additionally, the diverse members will address racially charged injustices that have burst the seams of ethnic cohesiveness. The panel will consist of representatives of various communities throughout the southeastern region of North Carolina; Pender, Duplin, New Hanover, Sampson, Bladen and Columbus Counties.
Mt. Calvary’s Social Justice Initiatives addresses racial tension that has heightened in recent years. The initiative works to develop strategies to address such immediate and ominous concerns of many communities. Developed courses of action for implementation are shared with governing municipalities, law enforcement agencies, educational entities, business and industry, and private organizations alike to improve relations and presence.
The Mt. Calvary Center for Leadership Development is responding to the urgent needs of the communities by bringing diverse groups together, understanding differences, celebrating commonalities, and uniting as Americans.
Duplin County
Mr. Davis Brinson
County Manager, Duplin County
Mr. Alex Flores
President, Flores Trucking and Demolition
Mr. Steve Evans
Director of Community Development, Smithfield Foods
Teyaka Pickett
Branch Manager, United Community Bank
Honorable Jesse Dowe
Chairman, Duplin County Commissioners
Dr. Austin Obasohan
Superintendent, Duplin County Schools
Mr. Devon Hall
Executive Director, R. E. A. C. H. Organization
Mr. Robert Moore
Branch President, Duplin County NAACP
Chief James Crayton
Wallace Police Department
Mr. Ervin Murray
Branch Manager, BB&T Rose Hill
Dr. Philip Gladden
Pastor, Wallace Presbyterian Church
New Hanover County
Ms. Deborah Dicks Maxwell
President, New Hanover County NAACP
Honorable Jonathan Barfield
Member, New Hanover County Board of Commissioners
Major B.D. Blackmon
New Hanover County Sheriff's Office
Linda Thompson
Chief Diversity and Equity Officer, New Hanover County Office of Diversity and Equity
Dr. Raymonde Kleinberg
Department Chair, UNCW Public and International Affairs
Brandon Taylor Panameno
Campaign Field Represenative, NRA-ILA
Sean Palmer
Director, Upperman African American Center, UNCW
Pender County
Dr. Jimmy T. Tate
Committee Co-Chair
President, Mt. Calvary Center for Leadership Development
Mr. Tom Roper
Committee Co-Chair
National Sales Manager, Comcast Communications
Rev. Jonathan Cockrell
Lead Pastor, Renovation Church
Mr. Desmond Jordan
Owner, The House of Gains
Honorable Pete Cowan
Mayor, Town of Burgaw
Mr. Charles Chestnut
Title IX Director, Pender County Schools
Chief Jim Hock
Burgaw Police Department
Rev. Dante' A Murphy
Branch President, Pender County NAACP
Honorable Jackie Newton
Member, Pender County Board of Commissioners
Dr. Arthur Kornegay, Jr.
Pastor, Pike Creek Missionary Baptist Church
Ms. Ruth Glaser
President, Pender Memorial Hospital
Vice President, Post-Acute Care, New Hanover Regional Medical Center