Ebony Ladies Golf League Chicago Women’s Golf Club
President, Ebony Ladies Golf League
Member, Chicago Women’s Golf Club
Director, Chicago District Golf Association
Director, Illinois Junior Golf Association
ARTHUR BURTON
Vice Chairman
Director, Chicago District Golf Association
St. Mark Golf Club
DOROTHY CHE-MENJU
Treasurer
Midwest Golf Association Ebony Ladies Golf League Women’s Jackson Park Golf Club
CASSANDRA CURRY
Secretary
Ebony Ladies Golf League
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EDWARD BOURELLY
Chief Marketing Officer, University of Michigan
ALFRED BROWN
Director, Chicago District Golf Association
Educator Chicago Public Schools – Retired
DEMETRICE BURGESS
Photojournalist
African American Golfer’s Digest
BONNIE DeSHONG
Host of”Bonnie’s Eye On” – 95.1 FM Chicago Bonnie’s Eye on Entertainment – chicagonow.com Contributing Journalist – Gary Crusader Newspaper Bonnie’s Eye to Sky, Inc.
PATRICIA HARPER
Women’s Jackson Park Golf Club
Ebony Ladies Golf League
KENNETH JOHNSON
Chicago Tee Birds
DIANE MEADES
Jackson Park League Coordinator The Fairway Network
ERIKA SHAVERS
Assistant Program Director, The First Tee of Greater Chicago
KELLI MORRISON
Chicago Women’s Golf Club
MITCHELL NEWSOME
Weekend Warriors Golf Network
The Shadows
ADVISORY BOARD
ANDRE STEPHENS, SR.
Founder and Executive Director for the St. Francis County Community Development Corporation – a non-profit agency established in 1999 that promotes the revitalization of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in St. Francis County, Arkansas
Planning Consultant to the East Arkansas Enterprise Community
Board Member for the Southern Rural Development Initiative
Commissioner for the Mid- South Commission on Race and Social Equity
Board Member for the National Congress for Community Economic Development
Member of the Arkansas Coalition for Poverty Elimination
Member of the Arkansas Coalition of Housing and Neighborhood Growth for Empowerment (ACHANGE)
Chair of the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Advisory Council (Dallas branch), assisting banks in Arkansas and other states provide credit and other services to fund housing, small business, and economic and community development loans
Founder and President of the Walter and Nettie George Speedy Foundation
James Beatty
Executive Editor – African American Golfer’s Digest
Editorial Advisory Board – African American Golfer’s Digest
Board of Directors – Ted Rhodes Foundation
Chairman – We Are Golf Recreational Play
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council – Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
President – Jim Beatty Golf Ventures
President NCS International
Organizer – African American Golf Expo and Forum
Member, Marketing Committee – “Make Golf Your Thing” Industry Collaboration
Member, Semicentennial Commission – World Golf Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary
2023 African American Golfers Hall of Fame Inductee
DR. MICHAEL COOPER
Senior Regional Golf Engagement Advisor with the United States Golf Association
Adjunct Faculty member at Springfield College, Tampa Bay campus.
Over 30 years in the golf industry, including Director of Diversity for the World Golf Foundation, and Southeast Regional Director with The First Tee.
Member of the Golf 2020 Advisory Board and Diversity Task Force
Board of Directors for the National Black Golf Hall of Fame, and Women of Color Golf.
MARK LOWRY
President – National Golf Player Development Foundation (NGPDF) The NGPDF will support aspiring golfers to achieve their dreams. We provide young male and female people of color with financial support and services to develop their competitive golf playing skills.
Mark has had a distinguished career in business leadership and strategic management.
He is the founder of Valley of the Sun Management and Consultant Solutions, LLC (VOSMCS, LLC), a multipurpose company that focuses on customized youth sports development programs including, but not limited to golf, strategic planning and management solutions for businesses, LLCs, LLPs, not for profits and for profit organizations and companies.
Prior, Mark had a twenty-year career as part of the executive team with The First Tee, a division of The World Golf Foundation. At the internationally recognized youth development and golf organization, Mark held various progressive management and leadership positions retiring as VP of Network Management.
The development of sports marketing programs and a multi-level junior golf program at Chicago Public Schools led to his ascension to The First Tee.
Mark has served as a Trustee on the Board of Edgewood College and as a Board Director of Aspiring Youth of Chicago.
Mark currently serves on the World Golf Foundation’s Golf 20/20 Diversity Task Force as Co-Chair of the Player Growth and Development Committee, the WE ARE GOLF DEI Task Force and is a Board Member of the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association in Phoenix, AZ.
He was also a charter member of the Jackson Park Golf Association, founded in1991.
2023 African American Golfers Hall of Fame Inductee
PEGGY RHODES-WHITE
Founder and President, Ted Rhodes Foundation
Daughter of Golf Pioneer, Ted Rhodes
Inductee, African American Golfers Hall of Fame
Distinguished Toastmaster Awardee 2015
Toastmasters International – Youth Leadership Program, Chair
Principal, Sydwaize Productions, a multi-media production company selling promotional items
Inductee, African American Golfers Hall of Fame
TERRI STEPHENS
Owner/Stylist for over 25 years
Professional consultant 15 years
Business Administration, B.A., High Honors
Life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Eta Sigma Omega Chapter
Mother of four college graduates
Golfer
TIFFANY WHITE
Granddaughter of Golf Pioneer, Ted Rhodes
Managing Director, Ted Rhodes Foundation
Founder and CEO of TNW Consulting – career development coaching and training
Adjunct Professor, DePaul University
Career Advisor, Illinois Institute of Technology
Life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Xi Nu Omega Chapter
President of the Christ Universal Temple Board of Directors
Member of the DePaul University Employer Advisory Board
2023 African American Golfers Hall of Fame Inductee
HONORARY BOARD
CLIFF LEVINGSTON
Legends Leaving Legacies, Inc. Former, Chicago Bulls, 3-Time Champion