MEET OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sara Brown, Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) has over 15 years of experience in providing quality counseling services to individuals, families, couples and groups. She is the co-owner of Better Days Counseling LLC, a Lanham Maryland group practice that she shares with fellow therapist Lourdine Jean-Francois, LCPC. 

Better Days Counseling LLC was started in 2013 due to a sincere love for counseling, and the desire to empower, support, and uplift others toward their goals. Their philosophy is that better days are possible for everyone, and they are eager to support clients as they journey through life. The practice is made up of four caring therapists that serve clients from all walks of life, though the majority of its clientele tends to be made up of African American females age 18-45 as well as youth and couples.

Better Days Counseling provides strengths-based services to adults, families, and children. One major focus is to overcome the stereotypes that tend to prevent people from seeking counseling, while empowering clients to reach their goals. Ms. Brown began her career working with youth and adolescents in the foster care and child welfare system. Through this work, she saw the positive effects of having caring, supportive, consistent clinicians to build therapeutic relationships that would help bring change to the lives of those she served.

In addition to business ownership, Ms. Brown currently serves as the Director for the Veteran’s Housing First Team at Pathways to Housing DC. The daughter of a marine veteran, Ms. Brown is extremely passionate about veteran’s issues. She has been working with Pathways to Housing DC since 2002, helping chronically homeless veterans with mental illness find housing.  She is proud to be a part of the collaborative effort to end veteran homelessness throughout the country, and especially in Washington DC. Ms. Brown is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University where she received her BSW. She received her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Angela S. Henderson is the CEO of Asher Services, Inc. Dr. Henderson is an Assistant Professor for the BSW Program at the University of the District of Columbia. Dr. Henderson’s areas of specialization include environmental justice, social justice, public policy, and assessment and evaluation. She teaches Social Welfare as a Social Institution and Research in Social Welfare at the University of the District of Columbia. Dr. Henderson is the CEO of Asher Services, Inc. where she provides innovative political analysis, research services, and solutions.

In 2012 Dr. Henderson established the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP) with Dr. Charles E. Lewis, Jr., and former Congressman Edolphus Towns. In 2018, she was appointed to serve on the Virginia Board of Conservation and Recreation. In 2020, Dr. Henderson worked with the office of State Senator Jennifer McClellan to create a Virginia version of the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act called SJ 49, Department of Health Professions Need for Additional Social Workers Study Bill. SJ 49 was passed by the Virginia General Assembly on March 3, 2020.

Dr. Henderson served as a Black Community Stakeholder for the White House Office of Public Engagement for the Biden Harris Administration from 2021 to 2025. Dr. Henderson was recently featured in a Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke Fellows Grant at Duke University and Johnson C. Smith University. The grant discusses the social justice and policy contributions of Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke and Dr. Henderson. The manuscript will be archived at Duke University. 

As BSW faculty support, Dr. Henderson is a co-creator and co-builder of the first Pre-Candidacy Master of Social Work Program at the University of the District of Columbia. She is the co-founder of the Institute for Urban Behavioral Health in the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Dr. Henderson is creating the 1st Pre-Candidacy HBCU MSW Social Work Environmentalism concentration in the country. She received a B.S.W. from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 2003, and a M.S.W. from Howard University in 2004. Dr. Henderson earned her Ph.D. in social work from Howard University in May 2013.

Professor Courtney Kidd is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Professor Kidd has a BA in Psychology, a MSW in Social work from Stony Brook University, and a MSc in Science and Technology Innovation Studies from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is currently conducting graduate research at Rutgers University in History. Professor Kidd believes in approaching things from an interdisciplinary lens. Professor Kidd began her clinical work at the Department of Veteran Affairs while also conducting Macro and Policy work through Social Justice Solutions. 

Zachary P. Molloie, Esq. is a Senior Associate attorney. Mr. Molloie navigates clients through intricate federal and state laws and regulations, and provides clients with a robust litigation risk analysis to achieve optimal results. Mr. Molloie serves clients across a wide range of practice areas, including corporate law, health, employment and labor disputes, discrimination actions, and whistleblower claims, in addition to complex commercial matters such as contract and property disputes. Mr. Molloie received his juris doctor degree from the George Mason University School of Law in 2013. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the Catholic University of America, where he studied politics and economics.