ROSLYN M. BROCK
Chairman, NAACP National Board of Directors

Roslyn M. Brock is Chairman of the National Board of Driectors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  She made history in February 2010 when she was unanimously elected as its 14^th Chairman.  She is the youngest person and fourth woman to hold this position.

Brock is employed as Vice President, Advocacy and Government Relations for Bon Secours Health System, Inc., in Marriotsville, Maryland.  Prior to working at Bon Secours, Brock worked 10 years in health programs at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan.

She graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Union University; earned a master’s degree in health services administration from George Washington University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. In May 2010, she received an honorary doctorate degree from Virginia Union University.

Brock has been a servant leader with the NAACP for more than 25 years.  She is a Diamond Life Member of NAACP and  joined the Association as a freshman at Virginia Union University where she was elected President of the Youth and College Division from Virginia.  One year later, she was elected as a Youth Board Member from Region 7 representing the District of Columbia, Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia.  As Vice Chairman of the NAACP Board Health Committee, her advocacy for healthcare resulted in the National Board’s inclusion in its Constitution of a health committee as a standing committee.

Brock has secured millions of dollars to support NAACP programs.  From 1999-2010, Brock chaired the NAACP’s National Convention Planning Committee. In this role, she led the Committee to institute fiscal policies that resulted in the Annual Convention becoming a profit center for the Association with average net revenues of one million dollars a year.

For nine years, 2001-2010, she served as Vice Chairman of the NAACP National Board.  In 2005, Brock created the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit.  The Summit’s goal is to recruit, train and retain a new generation of civil rights leaders to the NAACP.  Since its inception, Leadership 500 has contributed roughly $700,000 to the NAACP to support its programs.

Brock is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Catholic Health Association of the United States of America.  She is a member of several professional and civic organizations including the American Public Health Association; American College of Health Services Executives; Association of Healthcare Philanthropy; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and The LINKS, Inc.

A recipient of numerous healthcare, community service and leadership awards, Brock’s leadership skills have been recognized by several national publications and organizations.  She was featured in the September 2010 edition of Essence Magazine among the “40 Fierce and Fabulous Women Who Are Changing the World” ,  featured for BET’s 2010 “Black Girls Rock”, and received the 2010 National Urban League’s Women of Power Award.  Brock participated in the

U. S. Department of Defense’s 75th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC) reserved for American leaders interested in expanding their knowledge of the military and national defense.  She was a guest lecturer on “Alleviating Global Poverty” in Rome, Italy at the 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. Conflict Resolution Conference co-sponsored by the Lott Carey Foreign Missions and the Baptist Union of Italy.  From 2003-2005, Brock was a Young Leaders Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations to build cross-cultural understanding and professional networks with young Chinese leaders.

Brock’s goal in life is embodied in an African proverb, “Care more than others think is wise,Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical and Expect more than others think is possible.”