Baltimore BORN

Domonique Foxworth, President and Founder

Domonique Foxworth is a cornerback with the Baltimore Ravens and an Executive Committee member of the NFL Players Association, the union for professional football players in the National Football League. His interests outside of football are vast, ranging from politics to photography to the collection of civil rights memorabilia to helping ensure a quality education for all.  While playing football at the University of Maryland, Domonique created a program for high school students who had no interest in a formal education and only wanted to be athletes.  Through this program, high school students shadowed college football players to learn that getting a good education was an integral part of becoming a professional athlete.  After college, the Denver Broncos drafted Domonique. In Denver, he started and facilitated a writing workshop for students attending the Denver Boys and Girls Club and helped raise the funds necessary to complete the building of a new teen center.  Now, playing for the Ravens back in his hometown of Baltimore he has created Baltimore BORN (Boys Opportunity and Resource Network), Inc. a program that will work with middle and high school aged low-income boys who have the drive and ability to succeed but may lack the resources, support and network to do so.

Jenny Goldstock Wright, Vice President and Administrator

Jenny Goldstock Wright is an Independent Philanthropic Advisor and Program Consultant.  In this capacity, Jenny has worked with trusts, wealthy individuals, family and corporate foundations, professional athletes, entertainers and nonprofit organizations.  With these clients she has performed all roles from creating new nonprofit organizations to securing nonprofit status, to creating by-laws, to building a board of directors, to running the day-to-day programs.   Prior to starting her own business, Jenny was a consultant to myriad nonprofit organizations and foundations focused on education and youth services. Jenny advised these organizations on how to create new programs, establish new systems within existing programs, correct problems within management structures, and evaluate success to instill best practices. Jenny received her Bachelors degree at Skidmore College and her Master of Education from Harvard University.

Brandon M. Terry, Board Member

Brandon M. Terry is a PhD student in Political Science and African American Studies at Yale University. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an AB in Government and African and African American Studies in 2005 and received a master’s degree in Political Theory Research as the 2005-2006 Michael von Clemm Fellow at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford. A native of the Baltimore area, Terry has written for the Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Harvard Crimson, and The Oxford Isis, and provided commentary for Time, The Boston Globe, MTV News, The Nation, and other publications. He has lectured at Oxford, Harvard, Stonehill College, the University of California—Irvine, and various high schools and youth programs. In college and since, he has been an activist and advisor around a host of issues, including HIV/AIDS, the Darfur genocide, and youth violence prevention. Brandon’s academic mentoring work in the Mission Hill housing project in Boston was rewarded with the Benjamin Franklin Foundation’s Creativity Prize in Public Service. He is currently writing his dissertation on political philosophy and the civil rights movement.

Matt Thornton, Program Facilitator

Matt Thornton is a 2008 Teach for America corps member. He teaches 10th grade American Government at Northwestern High School. Before coming to Baltimore, Matt served the Boys and Girls Clubs of Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey, first as the Director of Educational Programming and then as the Coordinator of Marketing and Outreach. He holds a BA in History from Rider University and a MA in Urban American History from Rutgers University. He is also a member of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.