Board of Directors

Jamila Abston Mayfield, CPA, CFE, CFF is the founder and CEO of The Jamila Mayfield Group, LLC. The Jamila Mayfield Group provides consulting services on compliance, risk, and regulatory matters to financial services clients. She is a former Partner at Ernst & Young LLP in the FSO Consulting Financial Services Risk Management practice, where she led 100+ professionals advising top-tier clients in wealth and asset management, private equity, hedge funds, capital markets, banking, and insurance. Given her expertise, Jamila is also a sought-after public speaker, and she shares risk, compliance, and executive leadership insights through many professional speaking engagements each year.

Jamila also served as Assistant Regional Director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving as an expert adviser and senior leadership official for SEC Division of Examinations. In earlier SEC roles as Senior Strategic Risk Coordinator and Securities Compliance Examiner at SEC, she planned and performed complex examinations of investment advisers, mutual funds, broker-dealers, private equity advisers, hedge fund advisers, transfer agents, and other industry participants to maintain the integrity of national securities markets.

Jamila holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Asset Management from Yale University, a Master of Accountancy from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Florida A&M University. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with active licenses in the States of New York, North Carolina, and Georgia, as well as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF).

Juan currently serves as Trinity University’s President’s Special Advisor for Inclusive Excellence responsible for the administration, management, coordination and implementation of campus-wide programming and policy to support inclusive excellence.

He also is the Ron Calgaard Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Political Science Department where he teaches urban and presidential politics, state and federal elections and campaigns, urban education, community building, and leadership. He is helping Trinity develop national leadership and community building initiatives.

Juan recently received a presidential appointment by President Joe Biden to serve on the Commission on Presidential Scholars.He also served on the Biden-Harris Transition Team as a member of the Arts & Humanities Agency Review Team where he led the Public Media portion of the team.

Prior to Trinity, he was Senior Vice President of Station Services at PBS, where he collaborated with more than 160 PBS stations across the country to strengthen their connections to their local communities and to each other as a national public media network.

In the Obama Administration, Juan served as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, where he designed and led the first-ever White House Hispanic Policy Conference along with a series of White House Hispanic Community Action Summits.

Juan was the third Latino awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Government. He also holds a Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from The Queen’s College, Oxford University, a Juris Doctorate from Stanford Law School, and has been admitted to the Texas Bar.

Kweku Forstall served as the director of the Atlanta Civic Site of the Annie E. Casey Foundation from 2014 – 2025. The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social, and health outcomes. Its work focuses on strengthening families, building stronger communities, and ensuring access to opportunity, because children need all three to succeed.

The Atlanta Civic Site is a place where the foundation has a long-term commitment to improving the futures of at-risk children and their families in five neighborhoods just south of downtown Atlanta—Summerhill, Capitol Gateway, Peoplestown, Adair Park, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsville.

Prior to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Mr. Forstall served as the startup Executive Director of Year Up Atlanta from 2008 to 2013. From 2000 to 2008 he was the founding Executive Director of Project GRAD Atlanta, Inc., a public-school reform initiative operating in partnership with the Atlanta Public School system. He has also served as a Vice President for Community Investments for the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, and Director of the Emma and Joe Adams Public Service Institute at Morehouse College. Forstall began his career in 1985 as a staff and managing attorney with Atlanta Legal Aid Society.

In addition to serving on the MDC board, he is on the Executive Committee and Board of the Aerotropolis Atlanta Alliance. He also is a Foundation Center South Advisory Board member, an Atlanta CareerRise Leadership Council member, and a Friend of the A-Lab/Center for Civic Engagement at Oglethorpe University, all in Atlanta.

Mr. Forstall and his wife, Adrienne, live in Tucker, Ga., and have three adult daughters.

Richard Ammons has retired as a Senior Consultant and Principal at Marts & Lundy, a strategic fundraising consulting firm.  Marts & Lundy pairs its client-focused and collaborative approach with a comprehensive suite of strategic consulting, analytical, and communications services to help mission-driven organizations build the capacity needed to achieve their highest potential through the delivery of customized sustainable philanthropic solutions.

Richard has more than 30 years of experience as a higher education advancement professional.  Before joining Marts & Lundy, he was Associate Dean for the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Prior to his work at Duke, Richard served for seven years as vice president for development at Colby College, managing the College’s $370 million comprehensive campaign. Richard also held leadership posts at Macalester College, Morehouse College and the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University.

Richard is currently a member of the board of trustees of the University of the South (Sewanee), the Episcopal Parish Network and a member of the vestry at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Durham.

Raised in Atlanta and New York City, Richard completed his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and earned an MBA at Stanford University. He resides with his wife, Noel James, in Durham, North Carolina.