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Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2021
Books&People
IN THIS ISSUE WELCOMING
NEW TRUSTEES
Looking at 2020
PAGE 4 & 5 We are delighted to welcome three new members to the Board of Trustees.
Each brings not only abilities that will strengthen our Board but also experiences
that will help us to better serve our members.
News You Can Use Dwayne Ashley is the chief
PAGE 6 executive of his own consulting
firm, Bridge Philanthropic
Black Literature Matters: Consulting. He is a graduate of
A New Resource Wiley College in Texas and of the
University of Pennsylvania’s Fels
PAGE 7 School of Government. His
fundraising experience is extensive.
Dwayne Ashley Among his more notable clients,
he includes Madonna’s foundation
in Los Angeles early in his career,
and more recently Jazz at Lincoln
Center, where he worked before
starting his own firm five years
ago. Among other activities, he
has served on the Board of the
Newark Public Library and has
created a significant place for his
firm in fundraising for organiza-
tions of color. Trustee Adrienne
Ingrum was at one time Dwayne’s
editor and has remained a friend
over the years. Dwayne has pub-
lished four books about fundraising
and career building. Dwayne serves
on the Development Committee.