Craig E. Spilman, Ph.D., Executive Director
Craig Spilman is the Executive Director of the CollegeBound Foundation which is one of our nation’s premier college access programs serving 20,000 urban high school students in the City of Baltimore. In his former principal role, Craig was recognized for leading the transformation of three urban middle schools in Baltimore.  He also served as an Associate Superintendent, led the Maryland State Middle School Association as its Executive Director for ten years, and for fifteen years was the Education Director for Baltimore City’s Sister Cities International Programs. Craig Spilman is an adjunct professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Maryland Institute College of Art and consults for the Mercatus Center at George Mason College and Towson University.

For more than thirty years, Craig’s work in the field of urban education reform has received national recognition, including being featured in Time Magazine in 1997.  He has led over 200 seminars and presentations throughout the country for organizations such as the National Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the National Middle School Association, the Maryland State Department of Education, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Southern Regional Council.  Dozens of newspaper and journal articles as well as national media exposure (CNN, CBS, Fox, and NPR) have chronicled his school reform accomplishments.

Jimmy Tadlock, Program Director
Jimmy Tadlock graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Criminal Justice Administration. Mr. Tadlock went to Officer Candidate School and then NSA and a variety of assignments in various parts of the world. Cryptology was his specialty. After the Gulf War, Mr. Tadlock resigned his commission as a naval officer, to become a public school teacher.

Before coming to CollegeBound in 1999, Mr. Tadlock taught middle school math and science for the Baltimore City Public Schools. Concerned about students least likely to succeed, Mr. Tadlock designed a model program which caught the attention of NASA. The success of this program became the model for Earth KAM, a project whereby school children throughout the country can communicate with astronauts and monitor space shuttles. His success in the classroom has led to his teaching, each summer, at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Teresa Perrera, Development Director
Currently serving as Development Director for the CollegeBound Foundation, Ms. Perrera has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public relations. Before joining CollegeBound Foundation she held the Marketing Director position with MotoPhoto's Corporate Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio and held a Marketing Manager position with a large publishing company in Baltimore. Ms. Perrera graduated from Towson University in 1990 with a degree in Marketing and Communications.

Djenaba Bahar, Associate Program Director
Mrs. Bahar is a graduate of Baltimore City Schools. She received a BS in Business Administration from Morgan State University and a Master of Arts in Non Profit Management from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

Jamie Tang, Retention Specialist
Mrs. Tang is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and also holds degrees from Towson University and Johns Hopkins University. She would like to see more Baltimore City students take advantage of military funding for college. She has worked in neighborhood and citywide schools with CollegeBound. Mrs. Tang encourages participation in extracurricular activities and summer internships as well as community service. She is proudest of her former students who are now Gates Millennium Scholars.

Patrick Young, Retention Specialist
Mr. Young formerly served as the Assistant Director of Admissions at Western Maryland College, where he received a degree in Business Administration with a minor in music & accounting. Currently Mr. Young is pursuing a Masters Degree in Education. He was an assistant basketball coach at Western Maryland College and an assistant basketball coach at the Community College of Baltimore County at Essex. Since 1998, he has been a consultant for Helping Our Youth Achieve Success (HOYAS) in Baltimore, is an active member in the National Association of College Admissions Counselor (NACAC), PCACAC where he serves on the human relations committee, NCAN, NAACP, Black Coaches Association (BCA), Baltimore’s Charm AAU Basketball, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

Marsha Lieberman, CPA, Financial and Human Resources Manager
Marsha Lieberman has been with CollegeBound Foundation since 1999. She is a graduate of the University of Baltimore where she received a Bachelors Degree in Accounting. Ms. Lieberman has previously worked in public accounting, internal audit and was a regional controller for a local corporation.

Barbara Moon, Executive Administrative Assistant
Barbara Moon joined the CollegeBound Foundation in 2003. She assists the Executive Director and staff with secretarial and administrative activities. She also coordinates planning and preparation efforts for the Board of Directors' meetings and maintains the fundraising database.

Jamie Martino, Scholarship Program Coordinator
Ms. Martino joined the CollegeBound Foundation team from Shepherd University where she worked as an Admissions Counselor. Prior to joining the Scholarship, Research, Retention Services team, Ms. Martino was the College Access Program Specialist at Heritage High School for two years. She is a graduate from Shepherd University with a Bachelors of Science in Mass Communications, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Communication at West Virginia University.

David Ross, Director of Technology
David Ross has worked on first Computer and then Network Systems for over 20 years starting in High School.  Mr. Ross grew up in the Northern Virginia Metro Area and after graduating from Yorktown HS in Arlington, Virginia went on to earn a degree in Computer Engineering from Capitol College in Laurel, Maryland.  After graduating, Mr. Ross worked on a project for the Long Island Railroad to create the first outdoor based audio/visual system for Visual and Hearing Imparied Commuters in compliance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.  Mr. Ross went on to help create a start-up company which developed a NASA patent on a new type of Flat Panel Display.  Both the Proof of Concept and First Prototype were developed in Baltimore, MD.  Mr. Ross joined the CollegeBound Foundation in 2006 as the Director of Technology.

Brittany Harper, Administrative Assistant
Brittany joined CollegeBound in 2008, where she works primarily under the Program Director and handles the office’s desktop publishing needs. Brittany graduated from Mississippi University for Women in 2007 with a degree in Theatre and minor in Communication. In college, she dedicated herself to MUW’s student newspaper The Spectator. She found her way to Baltimore via a Graphics internship at CENTERSTAGE, Baltimore’s leading non-profit professional theater. Brittany is excited to continue her stint in non-profit work at CollegeBound, and soon hopes to continue her education in non-profit management.

Becky Bertell, Administrative Assistant
Becky Bertell recently joined our staff as an Administrative Assistant and supports our Program Director and College Access Program Specialists.  Becky grew up in the Baltimore area and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.  During college, she interned as a Research Assistant for the Center for Addiction Personality and Emotion Research at the University of Maryland and worked with underprivileged adolescents at Family Advocacy Services in Baltimore.  Becky is excited about working for a non-profit organization and looks forward to becoming a more intricate part of CollegeBound Foundation.

Jentine Balducci, Administrative Assistant
Jentine Balducci came to the CollegeBound Foundation in 2008. Ms. Balducci works in all areas of the Administrative Department, but primarily assists the Scholarship, Research, Retention Services team.  Her background was developed as a personal / business accounting assistant for a Baltimore doctor and a retail catalogue company based in Peabody, Massachusetts. She is currently pursuing an Associates of Applied Sciences in Accounting.