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Meet the cohort
The North Carolina Leadership Forum brings together leaders from across the state to discuss some of the most pressing policy issues of the day. Take a moment to read about your peers and the NCLF steering committee.


Kristin Baker
NC House, District 82

Marcus Bass
Deputy Director for the N.C. Black Alliance and the Executive Director of Advance Carolina

John Bradford
NC House, District 98

Danny Britt
NC Senate, District 13

Scott Bolin
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder/CEO of NCS

Mark Coggins
Director of Government Affairs for the NC Chamber of Commerce

Robbie Davis
Chairman, Nash County Board of Commissioners

Lucy Edwards
President, NC Carolina School Boards Association, Northampton County School Board

Michael Garrett
NC Senate, District 27

Dale Folwell
Treasurer, NC

Kasey Ginsberg
Vice President/Chief of Staff, Golden LEAF Foundation

Wesley Harris
NC House, District 105

Ralph Hise
NC Senate, District 47

Jill Homan
President, Javelin 19 Investments

Tracey Johnson
President, North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, Chair, Washington County Commissioners

Tony Lathrop
Attorney, Moore and Van Allen, Member of NC Board of Transportation

Brandon Lofton
NC House, District 104

Fernando Martinez
Inclusive Economies Project Director, United for a Fair Economy

Mark-Anthony Middleton
Mayor Pro Tempore of Durham City Council, VP National League of Cities and Municipalities

Scott Neisler
Mayor of Kings Mountain, NC , President, NC League of Municipalities

Paul Newton
State Senate, District 36

Vicki Lee Parker-High
Executive Director of the North Carolina Business Council (NCBC)

Luis Pastor
President and CEO, Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU), Executive Director, Latino Community Development Center (LCDC).

Ronald Penny
Secretary of Revenue, NC Department of Revenue

Lee Roberts
Managing Partner, SharpVue Capital, Former NC Budget Director

Jenna Robinson
President, Martin Center

DeAndrea Salvador
NC Senate, District 39

Pamela Senegal
President of Piedmont Community College

Alexandra Sirota
Executive Director, NC Budget & Tax Center

Matt Stone
Executive Director of Clinton-Sampson Chamber of Commerce

Mebane Rash
Founding CEO and Editor-in-Chief of EdNC

Mary Ann Wolf
President and CEO, NC Public School Forum
Meet the program director

Minda Brooks is the Program Director of the NC Leadership Forum. Minda has over 20 years of experience developing and managing programs in higher ed and non-profit organizations focused on leadership and capacity-building. Most recently, as the Program Director of Duke’s Master of Interdisciplinary Data Science program, she oversaw administration and operations and trained the next generation of values-driven data scientists in leadership, collaboration, and teamwork skills. Before coming to Duke, Minda worked with Rural Forward NC, providing facilitation, coaching, and technical assistance to North Carolina’s rural leaders striving to address health disparities. She spent seven years directing Wildacres Leadership Initiative and their signature program, the William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations, a program dedicated to fostering relationships across differences and using civil dialogue to address the state’s most pressing problems. While there, she increased alumni engagement and connection among the 200+ Friday Fellows across the state. Minda moved to North Carolina while in high school. She earned her bachelor’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and her master’s in theatre studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She currently resides in Wake Forest with her family and can often be found outside enjoying the neighborhood and surrounding Greenways with her dog, Millie.
Meet the steering committee and staff

Associate Professor of the Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, Associate Professor of the practice of Interfaith Relations, Duke Divinity School

Associate Justice, NC Supreme Court, Clinical Professor of Business Law & Ethics, UNC Kenan-Flager Business School

Professor of Public Law and Government, UNC School of Government

Executive Director, NC Leadership Forum

Executive Director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

President, John William Pope Foundation

Retired Partner, Williams Mullen, former NC General Assembly member

General Counsel, NC Chamber of Commerce, President NC Chamber Legal Institute

Former Executive Director, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, former NC General Assembly member