DALLAS SOUTH NEWS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Evelyn Henry Miller
Evelyn Henry Miller is seasoned financial executive whose most recent role was as executive vice president for The Dallas Morning News, A.H. Belo’s distinguished, flagship newspaper where she was responsible for all aspects of Finance and Administration, as well as some operational aspects, from 2002 – 2009.
Miller served as a key participant in determining the company’s business strategy, and was also responsible for managing all aspects of the company’s financial and administrative direction within key functional areas including finance, accounting, human resources, technology, procurement and administration.
Prior to this role, Miller was senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of BancTec, Inc., where she was responsible for accounting, finance and legal functions for this global systems integration and services company. She has several honors to her credit including being recognized as one of “Two Thousand Notable American Women,” 21st Century’s Most Promising Leaders, Outstanding Young Women of America and induction into the “Black Women’s Corporate Hall of Fame.”
Janet Morrison
Janet Morrison graduated from Harding University with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. She began her professional career coordinating the food pantry operation at Central Dallas Ministries in 1995. Throughout that time she volunteered in the Dallas Independent School District and coordinated different activities for the children in her neighborhood. In January 1998 she became the Director of Education, coordinating after-school and summer programs for children.
In January of 1999, Janet returned to school at Texas A&M-Commerce, seeking a degree in Education. She graduated with her Master of Science in Reading in December of 2000 and continued on to receive her Ed. D. in Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction in Elementary Education in December of 2005.
Janet continues her work at Central Dallas Ministries as the Director of Education, supervising and coordinating after school programs for elementary children and assisting teenagers with college readiness in different inner city communities and housing developments. Morrison also publishes the blog Janet Morrison’s Community Dialogue.
Marcia Page
Marcia Page received her Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Nebraska, Omaha and has completed executive education programs at Harvard University and the University of Indiana.
She joined Texas Instruments in 1995 as director of business excellence in the Semiconductor Group. Since then she has served as director of worldwide customer support, manager and then vice president for worldwide eMarketing, and vice president of marketing in the Educational & Productivity Solutions business.
In 2005, Page joined Foundation for Community Empowerment (FCE) as a loaned executive from Texas Instruments. As FCE’s President and CEO — a post she assumed in September 2006 — Page is responsible for the foundation’s strategic direction and the alignment and implementation of its core initiatives: community building, institutional and systemic change, and research. Before stepping into the CEO role, she spearheaded the highly successful Dallas Achieves school reform pilot project on 26 DISD campuses in South and West Dallas.
Bob Ray Sanders
Bob Ray Sanders’ journalism career has spanned four decades and three forms of media: newspaper, television and radio. He currently is Associate Editor and Senior Columnist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the paper where he began his journalism career. Sanders worked many years in public broadcasting at KERA-TV, Channel 13, the Dallas/Fort Worth PBS affiliate, where he served as reporter, producer, station manager and vice president.
A 1969 graduate of North Texas State University, he is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators.
Sanders, who also serves as “Professional in Residence” in the Texas Christian University School of Journalism, has received some of journalism’s most prestigious awards, among them: five awards from the Houston, New York and Chicago Film Festivals, five Dallas Press Club KATIE awards, three Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards, a regional Emmy Award, a National Association of Black Journalists award for Best TV Sports Feature, and a National Headliner Award for “Outstanding Investigative Reporting.”
Paul Stafford
Paul Stafford graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University in 1990, and received a law degree from Texas Tech University in 1994.
Stafford joined the board of the Dallas Bar Association (DBA) in 2001, and served as Chairman in 2008. He has also chaired the DBA’s Minority Participation Committee (2004), Admissions & Membership Committee (2005), and Campaign for Equal Access to Justice (2007)
Stafford was named “Dynamic Lawyer” by Eclipse Magazine in 2008, and
“Texas Rising Star” by Law & Politics Magazine and Texas Monthly in 2005, 2006, and 2007. His recent article “Learn from the Past, Look to the Future” was published in Texas Lawyer Magazine in February 2009.
Jeff West
Jeff West has over twenty-five years experience in the non-for-profit arena. He has served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Managing Director of the Dallas Theater Center and was the Executive Director of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza from 1994-2004.
West’s current projects include the coordination of the creative and physical development of the South Side Quarter District, an eighty acre site adjacent to the Dallas Convention Center, development of a one-year operating plan for the Deep Ellum Film Festival, and coordination of the Dallas exhibition of “National Geographic Presents Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial View of Africa.”
He currently serves as the Treasurer for the Texas Association of Museums and as Secretary of the National Historic Landmark Stewards Association. He has presented at a wide-range of conferences including the American Association of Museums, Americans for the Arts, and the American Association of State and Local History.
Shawn Williams (President)
Shawn Williams is a 1997 graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in Business Administration. After graduating from Texas A&M, Shawn began his professional career as a sales specialist with IBM Corporation. He then spent nine years (1999-2008) in pharmaceutical sales with Sanofi Aventis as a specialty representative.
In 2006, Shawn launched the highly acclaimed DallasSouthBlog.com focused on African-American issues in Southern Dallas and across the U.S. He serves as publisher and editor of the blog which is rated as one of the Top 5 Blogs in Dallas by Outside.in. He has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, in Ebony Magazine, The Toronto Star, Chicago Tribune, and a number of local media outlets.
Shawn is a frequent columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Paris (Texas) News, a member of the Super Bowl XLV Host Committee, and President-Elect (2011-2013) of the Texas A&M Black Former Student Network.
