Board members and staff
Waleed Shamsid-Deen
Founder and Chairman
Waleed Shamsid-Deen is President & CEO of Supreme Foods Worldwide, a family owned franchise company with 10 locations in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia. Waleed has over two decades of business experience. His drive, political savvy and keen insight for intelligent investments, has allowed him to establish numerous successful businesses and community-oriented ventures nationwide. In the past decade, Waleed has served as a consultant for Athletes, Entertainers, Entrepreneurs and Producers; managing and protecting their personal business and philanthropic interest.
Waleed is also founder of Youth V.I.B.E., a non-profit business mentorship program for high school students. Celebrating 23 years, the mentorship program has expanded to include global cultural exchange programs. Waleed has recently authored a book, Excellence at a Minimum: The Plight of an Entrepreneur. An avid traveler, Waleed has led academic and business delegations throughout several countries in Africa and the Middle East.
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dr.Quiana M. Shamsid-Deen
Quiana M. Shamsid-Deen, is an Employee Incident Social Worker for Fulton County Schools. With over 10 years in social work experience, she has developed a voice for compliance, policy and governance. Her passion has led her to support several issues concerning youth development and academia. As a Fulton County School administrator,Quiana provides high level support for principals relating to employee incidents with senior leadership, school administrators and staff. Additionally, she serves as the district liaison for employee incident and child abuse/neglect cases with the Department of Family and Children Services.
Previously, Quiana supported the DeKalb County Juvenile Court system as a Juvenile Program Administrator. During her tenure with DeKalb, Quiana managed, directed and evaluated staff processing employee concerns and problems. Moreover, Quiana provided, hands on support for families and youth through juvenile enrichment and academic programs providing thought leadership and solutions to robust challenges.
Executive Director
Adeidra Washington
Chief Operations Officer
Adeidra D. Washington has over 10-years of nonprofit and small-business management experience. After obtaining her BA in Journalism from Hampton University in 2006, Ms. Washington attended Troy University where she received a Master's in Public Policy in 2011. Currently, Adeidra serves on the Board of Directors for the Supreme Family Foundation.
In 2009, Adeidra formed a boutique consulting firm Detail Endeavors, LLC to provide nonprofits and business start-ups with successful business solutions to solve their organizational needs.
Over the years, Adeidra has worked with local and national nonprofits including: Martin Luther King, Sr. Collaborative Center, Urban League of Greater Columbus, Morehouse College, Tennessee State University, DeKalb County Office of Youth Services, Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, The Allen Houston Foundation, Keri Hilson Foundation, Our Children’s Keeper, Kerwin B. Lee Family Life Center and more.
Delores B. Rochester
Director
Delores is currently Vice President of North America Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle. She has 20+ years of experience leading high performance teams in Sales, Sales Management, Finance and Operations in the Information Technology industry. Delores has successful sold over $1 Billion of IT solutions (hardware, software, mobility & services) into the C-suite and has managed strategic relationships for Fortune 500 companies and Small & Medium Sized Enterprises across the Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Travel and Transportation, Sports Association, Industrial & Manufacturing, Health care (provider and payer), Non-profit and Retail.
Preceding her role at Oracle, Delores was the North East Regional Business Unit Executive at a privately-held, Information Technology (IT) value-added reseller that provides comprehensive IT solutions to its clients. Delores led an initiative to help the reseller successfully expand into a new multi-million geographic territory and achieve their long-term growth strategy. Over 15 months, the company grew “new logo” business by 70% and continues to show great potential for further acceleration.
Albert is a passionate educator who teaches English to speakers of other languages. He received a Master of Arts in TESOL from Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, VT where he focused on curriculum development and computer-assisted language learning. He also specializes in content-based ESOL, academic writing instruction and grammar acquisition. In the classroom, Albert utilizes a student-centered approach and believes learners perform best when they are provided with a safe space to develop opinions and draw conclusions about material they find both stimulating and relevant. In his ten-plus year career, Albert has taught abroad in Morocco, Turkey and Italy, and domestically in New Haven, CT. He is a native of Danbury, CT and currently resides in Baltimore, MD where he is an ESOL instructor and the assistant director of the English Language Program at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School.
Albert Shaheen
Director
Dr. Kyeanna M. Bailey
Dr. Kyeanna M. Bailey is a higher educational professional with over 15 years of experience working in private and public education. Dr. Bailey obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership with an emphasis on Higher Education Leadership from Mercer University. Dr. Bailey’s professional and scholarly interest center around faculty and women of color and their ascension to leadership positions. Dr. Bailey believes she can best serve the community by engaging in activities and events that promote the safety, wellness and empowerment of black and brown girls. Dr. Bailey is a native New Yorker, currently serving as a Director of Faculty Services with the City University New York. She currently resides in Queens, NY with her partner and children.
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Director
DR. Tamora A. Callands
Tamora A. Callands, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, College of Public, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior. She is a trained clinical-community psychologist and Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavior of the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. She earned her degree and received her training from the Psychological Science Department at Purdue University and through a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Prevention and Community Research within the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She worked on the ground in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Liberia in intervention implementation strategies, research and clinical training techniques, and evaluation methods. Over the past ten years, Dr. Callands has focused her attention on understanding facilitators and barriers to ameliorating mental and sexual health disparities among youth and emerging adults exposed to poverty and violence in low-resource settings both domestically and internationally. She has managed, trained, and supervised local research teams and mental health clinicians in Sierra Leone and Liberia on mental health and sexual risk behavior among war-exposed and at-risk youth.
Director
Lawrence Shamsid-Deen assist Supreme Family foundation as a youth community engagement leader, fundraiser, philanthropic and youth outreach strategist as a board member; in efforts to better our cooperate social responsibility and community empowerment. Before joining the board, Lawrence served as a part-time permit technician for the city of Atlanta where he assisted in architectural plans for commercial realestate in the city, while attending Georgia State University. Currently, Lawrence works full time for Supreme Foods, leading the companies catering efforts domestically.
Lawrence is now an alumni of Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business with a degree in Business Economics. He is passionate about service, community empowerment, and entrepreneurship; with interest in economics, real estate, branding, and small business profit maximization. Other interest include exotic cars and international soccer.