Our Team

Shana Fulcher

Executive Director

Doris Duarte

Assistant Director

Since settling in Takoma Park with her family in 1995 Doris has been a resolute advocate for youth and in 2015 became assistant director of Takoma Park Lunch and Learn. Highly respected as a mentor in the District of Columbia summer youth programs and as an organizer of the Think Tank homework program in Takoma Park, she also arranges food deliveries to the less fortunate, particularly at Hampshire Tower, where she is president of the Tower Tenants Association.

Doris is the site coordinator for the Educare Food Pantry, Kokus Foods (Small Things Matter), the Greater Washington Adventist Community Services food distribution and Difference Makers. She serves on two Takoma Foundation committees, including the Racial Equity Working Group. For her volunteer work she has been recognized with an Azalea Award, a Martin Luther King Unsung Hero Award and other tributes.

Isabelle Johnson

Treasurer & Acting President

Isabelle Johnson is the Executive Director of S&R Evermay, a DC private operating foundation that encourages individuals to create transformative social impact through innovation and interdisciplinarity. Key programs include the Washington Award for Artists, and the Kuno Award for Applied Sciences for the Social Good. In this role she manages resources toward creating transformative social impact in Washington DC, and other strategic areas.

Previously, she employed her financial management, governance, and human resource expertise at mission-driven non-profits toward local, national, and global causes. Ms. Johnson held the position of Director of Operations at DC Volunteer Lawyers Project, Chief Operating Officer of Energy Action Coalition, and Operations Director at 1Sky/350.org. Isabelle is a board member of the Halcyon Honorary Board, The House at 1229, and Kyodai Collaborative. She holds a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Georgetown University, and a BA from Colby College.

Priscilla Labovitz

Board Member

Priscilla has lived in Takoma Park with her family since 1981 and has mentored and tutored children for decades, including one who is now a police officer in the District of Columbia. She volunteers with the Recreation Department’s Let’s Chat program and is a member of the Recreation Committee and the Racial Equity Working Group. She is also vice-president of What’s My Bias Inc. and the recipient of an Azalea Award.

She has been active in the civil rights, tenants’ rights, antiwar and prison reform movements and started Friends of the Takoma Park Recreation Center, advocating for a rebuild of the aging center on New Hampshire Avenue.

Now retired, she began the practice of immigration law in 1973, and the Washington Post and the New York Times have published her writings on immigration issues.

Frederick Schultz

Communications Director

A native of Baltimore, Fred moved to Takoma Park with his wife in 1986 and later was elected to the City Council, representing Ward Six (2009 – 2017). While on the Council he championed creation of the City’s economic development program, a closer relationship with Washington Adventist Hospital, a revival of the Noise Control Board and helped establish the Commemoration Commission. He continues to fight for an expansion of the library and for a new recreation center on New Hampshire Avenue.

Fred is retired from a career in commercial banking and as a planner for the City of Baltimore and Arlington County. Currently he serves on the Police Chief’s Advisory Board, the Commemoration Commission, the Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation board, and the ECDC/Enterprise Development Group board, which makes micro-enterprise loans to area minority businesses.

Cherwanda Oliver

Board Member

A Takoma Park resident since 1983 Cherwanda first gained recognition for her successes as an organizer at the Essex House Apartments, where she lives with her family and previously served as Tenants Association president. Perpetually energetic, Cherwanda works locally as an office manager and assists several service groups, including the MLK Committee, the Village of Takoma Park, the Racial Equity Working Group, the Recreation Committee, Let's Play America, Celebrate Takoma and the Garden Crew.

She is a graduate of the Community Police Academy and is a program specialist with What’s My Bias Inc. In 2013 she was honored with an Azalea Award as volunteer of the year. Cherwanda has earned other accolades for community service, and at the Essex House she continues to serve on the Leadership Group.

Jay Keller

Board Member

In an extensive career with non-profit organizations Jay focused on government openness, peace and arms control, women's empowerment, environmental protections, interfaith partnerships and safeguarding the First Amendment. He also taught English in Taiwan and spent time in the Congo, India, Pakistan and Nepal, which heightened his awareness of racial and religious diversity.

Since settling in Takoma Park in 1985 he has helped organize activities to bring together people of different backgrounds and all ages. Jay served on the Recreation Committee, the City Grants Committee, the MLK Committee, the City Administrator Search Committee and several other volunteer groups, striving to live up to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s view: "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”