Man Of The Year CONTINUES
CATEGORY:
EMERGING LEADER
CATEGORY: EDUCATION
Keaven D. Russell, Jr.
Teacher
Walnut Creek Elementary School (Raleigh)
Taylor L. Whitehead
Band Director – Warren County High
School (Warrenton)
President – NC Showstyle Band Director’s
Association
Keaven D. Russell, Jr., a 2013 Saint Augustine’s
University alumnus, is a first grade teacher at
Walnut Creek Elementary. While matriculating
at the University Keaven was a defensive back
on the football team, a peer tutor, a resident
assistant, a department mentor, and an Upward
Bound Trio counselor.
Taylor Whitehead has served as the Band Director at Warren County High School in Warrenton,
North Carolina for the past 17 years. He also
currently serves as the Assistant Band Director
for Virginia State University in Petersburg,
Virginia.
A native of Meherrin, Virginia, Whitehead
is a graduate of Virginia State University and Norfolk State University. As Warren County’s Band
Director, he has led the band to five Class A National High Stepping Championships and the Band’s
drumline to seven National Drumline Champiownships.
Whitehead is freelance wedding photographer and owns his own photography company.
He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, Kappa Kappa Psi National Band Fraternity, Tuba Phi Tuba Brass Fellowship, Mu Phi Sigma National Percussion Fraternity and Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia. He is the Founder and President of the North Carolina Showstyle Band Director’s
Association and serves on the National Board for Asymmetrix Entertainment.
Also, he was a member of the Student
of North Carolina Association of Educators
(SNCAE), of which he was selected Mr. SNCAE, as well as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc., in which he was involved in community outreach. He organized and implemented the Leaders
Academy Mentoring Program (L.A.M.P.) which served underprivileged children. Keaven has further
served his community by volunteering at the Helping Hand Mission and Boys Clubs.
During the summer of 2013, Keaven planned and coordinated the Alexander YMCA Summer Sports Camp. During the first year of his teaching career, he has organized a 28-member step
team for the school as well as organized a step team competition, which raised over $3000 for the
school’s PTA. He also was selected as Walnut Creek's Beginning Teacher of the Year.
CATEGORY:
EMERGING LEADER
CATEGORY: HEALTH
Anthony McClenny
Morehead-Cain Scholar, UNC-CH
Associate Director, Georgetown
Learning Centers (McLean, VA)
Dr. F. Vincent Allison, III
Dentist, Allison Family & Cosmetic
Dentistry
Dental Director, SNDA CAARE Free Dental
Clinic
Anthony McClenny, a Morehead-Cain
Scholar, graduated from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012 with a degree
in Biology and minors in Chemistry and African
American Studies (GPA 3.47). He is an aspiring physician, researcher, humanitarian, and
educator. He has worked as a data manager for
the Africa/Harvard-SPH Partnership in Cohort
Research and Training pilot study in Cape Town,
SA where Anthony helped establish baseline biological data on the rise of chronic diseases on the
African continent.
McClenny served as president of the Black Student Movement Alternative
Spring Break to Sunflower, MS where he led 11 students in conducting reproductive health education camps at the Sunflower County Freedom Project.
McClenny taught Environmental Science (ES) at Vance High School where he was the 2008
Valedictorian. He also served as chair of a professional learning community; assisted with coaching
the varsity basketball team; and served on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools Time, Capital,
and Resource Management Task Force. He currently works as an Associate Director at Ge ܙ