Stansbury is currently employed as the Americans with Disability Act Coordinator (ADA) / Compliance Officer with the Maryland Department of Human Resources-Office of Program Equity. He previously worked as a Park Ranger with the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks. Mr. Stansbury graduated from Sojourner Douglass College, Annapolis, MD, in June of 2000, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration. Stansbury is a veteran of the U.S. Army, honorably discharged in 1976.

Gerald Stansbury is the recipient of the “Dr. Martin Luther King Drum Major Award”; is an inductee into the “Annapolis High School Wall of Fame”; Presided over the Anne Arundel Co. NAACP Branch when it received the MD State Conference of NAACP Branches, “Branch of the Year Award”; and is a recipient of the R.E.S.P.E.C.T., Inc. “Civic Award”. Mr. Stansbury’s affiliations include: Chairperson-MD State Conference NAACP Economic Development Committee, Member-Anne Arundel Co. Superintendent’s Disciplinary Task Force, and Member-Anne Arundel Co. Welfare Reform Task Force.

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Black History Month
The Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement is considered an event of great significance in the struggle for equal rights in America led by those who believed that accommodation to inequality was not what they wanted for their children. W.E.B. DuBois and William M. Trotter led this movement and in July, 1905, on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, twenty-nine men met to form the Niagara Movement. The location’s voice of its “mighty current” symbolized the protest the group wished to unleash.

The group appointed DuBois as general secretary, split into committees, and divided the work at hand among state chapters. The Niagara Movement pursued its activities, of distributing pamphlets, lobbying against Jim Crow, and sending circulars and protest letters with little funding and resources.

A second conference was held at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia but the Movement had a short life. However, the Niagara Movement left a lasting legacy. By 1908, DuBois joined the NAACP, which continued the struggle for justice and equality with the voice of a mighty current.
Keynote Speaker: Colonel Douglas DeLeaver

DeLeaver is a law enforcement professional with 34 years of experience within various MD state government law enforcement agencies, of which 22 years were spent with the MD State Police. Chief DeLeaver was appointed to Colonel and leader of the MTA Police on July 1, 2000. He also served as Director of Strategic Planning at the MD Transportation Authority (MdTA) and more recently during 2003, was appointed and served for four months, as Superintendent of the DNR Natural Resources Police (NRP). Thereafter, on May 1, 2003, DeLeaver requested and was reassigned by Governor Ehrlich to the MTA Police, as Chief. Chief DeLeaver holds a B.A. Degree in Criminal Justice from Belford University and also completed a year of study at the Law Enforcement Institute, University of MD, College Park, MD. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy Session #167.

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Women’s History Month
Women Change America
Keynote Speaker: Cindy Driscoll, Fisheries Service

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Bridging the Gap Between Our Differences
Keynote Speaker: Edward Poey, MBA, NSPA
Commissioner, Governor’s Commission on Asian-American Pacific Affairs

Mr. Poey is an experienced financial and compliance auditor. He has 26 years of experience in providing auditing, accounting, operations support, autonomous profit center operations, and management control support to federal, state and local governments, and the private sector. He has established and functioned as operating head of several branches and divisions and has provided support in mergers and acquisitions, operating and capital budgets, contract monitoring, cash management, general ledger, budgeting, forecasting, total quality management, and compliance with public regulations such as FAR, CAS, DCAA, OMB Circular A-133, HCFA 15-1 [CMS, Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services], GASB 34, and Medicare/Medicaid cost reports. He is experienced in financial systems involving general ledger and financial statement preparation, designing internal controls and management tools. He has had extensive private and public sector exposure.

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Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Americans: Strong and Colorful Threads in the American Fabric
Keynote Speaker: Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez