Talladega College has welcomed five new members of the Board of Trustees, and bid farewell to five whose term of office has concluded. The board transition took place on May 1.
New to the Board of Trustees are: Kenneth D. Crenshaw; Ron Houston; Frank Jannuzi; and Seqwana T. Pryor ‘92, Ph.D. along with student representative Denisha Stockdale ‘26.
The board members who will exit are: Robert Dickerson; Isaiah Hugley ‘79, LHD ‘21; Jimmie Kelly III, ‘87; and student representative Jevon Tatum ‘25.Crenshaw is a banking and business veteran who is with First Horizon Bank as the senior vice president, head of CRA and affordable lending/community development. In the community, he serves as chair of the Business School Advisory Board for Lawson State Community College and as a trustee on the City of Birmingham Retirement and Relief System Pension Board. Crenshaw also served as immediate past vice chairman of the board for the Jefferson County Economic Industrial Development Authority, interim executive director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, board member and chairman of the finance committee for Head Start and Early Head Start Agency, and member of the loan committee for SBA 504 Loans. Crenshaw graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Citizen's Academy. Crenshaw received his Master of Management from Troy University and his bachelor’s in business administration from Birmingham-Southern College.
Houston is a business consultant who serves as the CEO and president of the Houston Resource Group. A master-certified project executive, he held executive leadership positions with Accenture, BBVA and IBM. Houston serves the community as board chair for Alabama Possible; and he serves on the boards of the Alabama Community College System, Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center and Tech Birmingham. Houston is also an Alabama Society member of the United Negro College Fund and a strategic planning committee member of Greystone Golf and Country Club. Houston is a Ph.D. candidate in educational leadership, policy and law at Alabama State University, an MBA from the University of Kansas, and a bachelor’s in business management from Pepperdine University.
Jannuzi is an international policy expert who serves as the president and CEO of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, a nonprofit organization that “promotes understanding and cooperation among the nations and peoples of Asia and the United States” according to the organization’s website. Prior to joining the foundation, Jannuzi served as deputy executive director for advocacy, policy and research for Amnesty International, USA. He had also served as a policy director, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Jannuzi received his Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and he graduated with honors with his bachelor’s in history from Yale University.
Pryor is a manufacturing process technology leader who serves as the senior director of global manufacturing technology, electronics and industrial for DuPont. A 1992 graduate of Talladega, Pryor’s community service includes the Junior League of Richmond (Virginia), chair of the National Policies and Procedures Committee for Jack and Jill of America and a STEM advisory board member for Harris-Stowe State University. In 1998, Pryor made history as the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Purdue University. She also holds a master’s in chemical engineering from Purdue where she served as president of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. Pryor graduated from Talladega magna cum laude in chemistry/mathematics.
A native of Talladega, Stockdale is a rising senior majoring in business administration. She is a student ambassador for the Society for Financial Education and Professional Development and a member of Business Professional Society.
Dickerson is a seasoned executive and dedicated advocate for economic empowerment who serves as the founder and executive director of the Birmingham Business Resource Center. Dickerson is also the CEO of Foundation Capital; and he established Building Alabama Reinvestment, a statewide coalition dedicated to advancing community reinvestment efforts. He serves as chairman of the board of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition; and he serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham Business Alliance, Lawson State Community College Foundation, and the Fair Housing Center of Northern Alabama.
Hugley is the city manager for Columbus, Georgia and an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbus State University. Among his awards and honors are the Georgia City–County Management Association Pillar of Professional Management Award and the Legacy of Leadership Black History Award. Hughley was honored with an honorary doctorate from Talladega in 2021. He is also the Immediate past chair of the College’s Board of Trustees.
