Paula D. Royster- Ms. Royster serves as the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of CAAGRI. She brings 20 years experience in the for profit community in areas of expertise including administration, management and marketing. Ms. Royster serves on several boards and committees with similar interests in historical preservation.
Vice-President
Frederick N. Goodwill- Mr. Goodwill is the Executive Director of the Restoration Community Project Incorporated (Faith Based), Freise Women’s Home & II Genesis Men’s Home Transitional Housing Programs, RCPI Career Training Center and Youth Building Community Development (CHDO). RCPI hosts a 50 bed Women’s Home w/out children from ages 5-10 and a 16 Bed Men’s Home. These are transitional housing programs designed to fight homelessness, crime, drug and alcohol addiction, family violence and domestic abuse. The 50-bed Freise Women’s Home was able to house, teach, train and graduate seven women who completed a full 1-year program and who are back in the community working. Along with overseeing these programs, he supervises a Career Training Center complete with a computer skills training lab, treatment classes and group meetings where curriculum is developed, 12-Step, NA/AA/ Big Book meetings that are open to the public, along with the Work Net Program. The Youth Building Program which is a Community Development Project designed to target “at risk youth” in the community and train them in construction (rehab) to have marketable job skills while at the same time providing housing for low income families.
Mr. Goodwill’s certifications include: Certified Minister of Doctrine and Theology (C.O.G.I.C.), Certified Minister of Doctrine and Theology (Assembly of God), Licensed Minister (Church of God), Ordained Minister (Non-Denominational) and State of California Certified Group Home Administrator.
Secretary
Cynthia R. Campbell - Ms. Campbell She has over 20 years in the telecommunications industry with a solid foundation in customer service. Her community affiliations include: Docent, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture; Resident Manager and Self-Esteem class facilitator, El Shaddai Women’s Community Development Center, Inc.; Member, Greater Baltimore Black Chamber of Commerce. She received her BS from UCLA and her MS from Golden Gate University.
Treasurer
Mary P. Jones - Ms. Jones has 30 years of financial experience in both the public and
private sector environments. Her experience encompasses several financial
accounting areas including payroll, budgeting, and reporting as well as served
as auditor in the banking and insurance industries. She has served as Controller of a higher education institution and most recently a business development organization. In her current position as Agency Management Analyst, she provides assistance to small businesses in a range of financial management services.
Legal Advisor
Wallace L. Walker – Mr. Walker has been in private practice for approximately 25 years. Prior to starting his practice in Philadelphia, PA, he headed nonprofit educational consulting firms in Los Angeles, CA. Immediately out of law school he worked at the Compton Legal Aid Office and upon leaving Legal Aid, he served eight years as a senior consultant to the California State Assembly. Mr. Walker earned a bachelors degree in Journalism and worked one year toward the Masters degree in American Studies at California State University at Los Angeles. He completed his law degree at UCLA in 1970.
Advisory Board
Ruth Coder Fitzgerald - A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Ruth Fitzgerald served in the Peace Corps in the Republic of the Philippines with her husband, Barry, a free lance photographer. She has worked in various Fredericksburg community activities including an area legal aid program and the Ann Hamrick Community House. She is the author of A Different Story: A Black History of Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania, Virginia.
John Hennessy - A native of upstate NY and graduate of the University at Albany.
Over the years has worked at Manassas Battlefield, for the New York
State Historic Preservation Office, in the NPS interpretive design center
at Harpers Ferry, and also here, at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania
National Military. For the first eight years, he was the Assistant
Superintendent, with many stints as the acting Superintendent. Currently, he is the Chief Historian/Chief of Interpretation of the park. Mr. Hennessy has written three books on the Civil War and dozens of articles on various topics.
Sara Poore-Hennessy - A graduate of the historic preservation program at the University of Mary Washington and for many years worked as an archeologist at Ferry Farm
(George Washington's Fredericksburg Foundation). As director of
archeology and education programs for the foundation and she has done immense
work to make their education programs the best of its kind in the region. Currently, Ms. Hennessy is the Director of Education at the American Civil War Center.
Dr. James Spady. - Professor of History, University of Mary Washington. James Spady was born in NYC and educated in New Jersey and the Bronx. He attended Earlham College and The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, earning a BA in 1993. In August, 2006, he received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary, where he also completed his MA. His dissertation explores African Americans, Native Americans, and poor whites and the cultural politics of educational initiatives among them in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700-1820. He has taught at William and Mary, Virginia State, and Mary Washington. A full time visiting professor of history and American Studies at Mary Washington last year, he taught "Rebellion and Revolution in Slave Societies" and the "History of Virginia," among other courses. He has either organized or participated in organizing forums on the history and memory of Slavery in Fredericksburg and Virginia, in historic Fredericksburg.
Elmore Tyler – Mr. Tyler is retired from the Air Force. A local historian, he serves as the Vice-President of the NAACP, Dahlgren Chapter. He has served the Dahlgren community in the capacity of Planner and recently chaired a commission to successfully secure a historic marker for the Ralph Bunche High School in Dahlgren, VA.
