David Britt

President

Dave has had a dual career in both ministry and nonprofit management. He served as CEO of the United Way of Central Louisiana for 24 years, after doing research and planning at Metro United Way in Louisville, Kentucky. A graduate of LSU, he also earned two seminary degrees. He has served in pastoral, preaching and teaching roles, and has taught as an adjunct at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Roslyn Canosa

Vice President

 Roslyn holds a doctoral degree in Communicative Disorders from Johns Hopkins University. She is a retired special education administrator, most recently employed at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She has been a volunteer at ACTC since 2018 and currently works in the financial assistance office helping families with eviction prevention. She also volunteers with BCAS, the county animal shelter, taking care of the many cats that come into their service needing homes. She is a long time member of Towson Unitarian Universalist Church.

Roger Fiery

Treasurer

Roger joined the Board of Directors in 2019. Along with all Board members, he is responsible for serving as a steward of ACTC’s financial resources and, as treasurer, he oversees planning, directing, and coordinating the organization’s financial activities. Roger recently retired after many years working in financial operations, most of which were spent with T. Rowe Price. He graduated from Bucknell University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and is a member of Ascension Lutheran Church.

Jean Blair

Secretary

Jean is a retired librarian, having spent her career working for the Baltimore County Public Library system. She earned a B.A. in French from Olivet College in Michigan, and holds a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the University of Michigan. She is instrumental in overseeing Babcock Presbyterian Church’s food pantry, maintaining inventory, ordering food, and organizing food distribution. She has been a member at Babcock since 1984. Jean serves as a substitute soloist or chorister in local churches, primarily at the Christian Science Churches in Towson and Catonsville. She also sings with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Jean is honored to begin her service to ACTC .

Rev. George Winkfield

Director

The Reverend Dr. George L. Winkfield is a native of West Virginia and has lived in the Baltimore area for the last 20 years. After college George worked in the private sector before submitting to the call to ministry. George received his Master of Divinity at Howard University School of Divinity and in went on to receive his Doctor of Ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary. George was a member of the Cambridge cohort and took his doctoral courses at Wesley House Cambridge, UK.

George is an elder in The United Methodist Church and has served various congregations over the last twenty years. He has been serving as the Senior Pastor of Loch Raven United Methodist Church since 2017. George’s first-hand experiences with housing insecurity and hunger created a passion in him to fight hunger and poverty in his community and around the world.

In 2008, George was a Hunger Justice Leader with Bread for the World. In that capacity George advocated with local churches for domestic and international hunger issues. In 2012, he was Senior Pastor and Executive Director for Soup for the Soul food pantry. In 2018, George founded the Loch Raven UMC food pantry where they seek to supply food and supplies to community members in need. George serves on the Board of Ordained Minstery for the Baltimore Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland. George currently resides in Catonsville, Maryland, with his wife Mary and two daughters.

Jesse D. Gardner, III

Director

Jesse holds bachelor’s and MBA degrees in finance from Virginia Tech and has focused his career in the areas of corporate treasury, project finance, risk management, lender and investor relations, and mergers and acquisitions. He is currently chief financial officer and co-owner of Kelson Energy LLC. He is a member of Central Presbyterian Church and, in addition to his service to ACTC, he volunteers with the Believe in Tomorrow Foundation and the Local Regional Missions Group.

Barry Rollins

Director

Barry, a native Baltimorean, has been working with ACTC since 2020 and was elected to the Board in 2023. He brings a background in fundraising/financing and leads ACTC’s newly formed Philanthropy Committee. Barry graduated from Washington College in 1978 with a BA in economics and retired recently retired from his alma mater McDonogh School as Director of Planned Giving. An active member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Barry enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, pickleball, coaching squash and is an avid local sports fan.

Meghan Wadsworth

Director

Meghan, born and raised in Towson, has been volunteering in many different roles with ACTC since she retired in 2019, including leading ACTC’s Thanksgiving Project. She has a BA in Elementary Education. After teaching for several years in Baltimore county, she went on to a second career in Information Technology, performing software support, training, testing and documentation. She was involved with her Catholic Church in Frederick County for 12 years. Now living back home in Towson, she is currently an active member at Immaculate Conception, where she went to school many years ago. She spends her spare time swing dancing, reading and trying to solve crossword puzzles

Anne-Thérèse Béchamps

Legal Counsel to the Board

Anne-Thérèse is a partner in the Real Estate Finance Practice Group of Venable LLP and has been advising ACTC and its Board of Directors on a variety of business matters since 2017. A fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, she earned her law degree from the University of Notre Dame; she holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She is a member of The Immaculate Conception Church in Towson.