The Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Community Foundation has appointed Shanaysha Sauls, PhD to the office of president and CEO. Sauls succeeds Thomas E. Wilcox who retired from the post at the end of 2017.

Sauls’ professional experience ranges from classroom teaching to guiding strategy for small and large organizations. She has served since 2015 as Chief Executive Officer & Operator for the Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, where she managed and stabilized finances, directed resources and led academic performance. Her prior experience ranged from consulting on strategic direction and marketing for colleges and universities to teaching political theory at American University, and teaching English in Baltimore area high schools.

Sauls’ observations of how children, families and neighborhoods access education, cultural resources and recreation have guided her choices in volunteer service. She became a founding board member of both the Patterson Park Public Charter School and the Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance, then a member and ultimately chair of the city’s Board of School Commissioners.

The opportunity to lead the Baltimore Community Foundation is, Sauls says, a natural next step. “My longtime focus has been about improving lives of people all across Baltimore, and BCF affects every single Baltimorean in a way that no other institution can, through its issue advocacy, philanthropic investments and partnerships with community and the public sector.”

Sauls is the first person of color to lead the 45-year-old Baltimore Community Foundation, and the first woman to serve as CEO. 

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