Charles Ezra Ferrell

Charles Ezra Ferrell is Co-Director of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center of Nurturing Community Leadership (Detroit, MI). He is a board member and chair of the fundraising and development committee at the Walter Rodney Foundation (Atlanta, GA); a board member of the General Baker Institute (Detroit); an Advisory Board member for the Concert of Colors; a member of the University of Michigan General Baker Memorial Scholarship Committee (Ann Arbor, MI); a Field Instructor at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Social Work (Ann Arbor, MI); a Lifetime Member and a former member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (Washington, DC); a Lifetime Member of the (AAAM) Association of African American Museums (Washington, D.C); an advisor to PBS Books (Detroit, MI); and an advisory consultant to the Detroit Independent Freedom School Movement (Detroit, MI).

Ferrell previously served as Senior Vice-President for Development and Global Programs at Keiga Foundation (Roseville, MI) and as Vice-President for Public Programs and Community Engagement at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI). Before his non-profit work, Ferrell held various executive management positions as CEO, president, director, and consultant in information technology, personal protective equipment, and strategic management consulting. Ferrell is also a published artist, poet, writer, social justice activist, and devoted husband and father.