Meet Our Team

 



Mrs. Whitney Carnes

Whitney is an Atlanta-based entrepreneur with a diverse background spanning merchandising, product development, fine arts, and strategic business management. Her educational journey began at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles, where she specialized in Merchandising and Product Development within the fashion apparel industry. She further honed her creative and analytical skills by earning a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from Georgia State University.

Leveraging her broad artistic experience, Whitney seamlessly integrates creative vision with strategic planning and operational excellence. Her professional trajectory includes significant accomplishments in financial oversight and property management, where she has demonstrated a keen ability to optimize assets and drive sustainable growth.

Guided by principles of integrity, transparency, and long-term value creation, Whitney fosters collaborative environments that encourage innovation and accountability. Her leadership style emphasizes aligning organizational goals with stakeholder interests, ensuring resilience and success in dynamic markets.

Beyond her professional endeavors, Whitney is dedicated to community involvement and personal growth, reflecting a holistic approach to leadership and societal contribution.

Sean Carnes 

Sean Carnes attended school in Metro Atlanta before leaving high school to join the workforce. Within a year, he attained his GED and set his aims to public service. Sean joined the United States Coast Guard and served as a Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator and Satellite Communications Training Officer, before leaving the Coast Guard to attend college in his hometown, where he majored in English. Sean worked as a writing tutor at Georgia Gwinnett College before beginning a career in Construction Project Management. 
Several instances of social injustice over the last decade have led Sean to a fulfilling life of service and the search for a way to impact and unify his community.

 

Susan McCauley

Susan McCauley is a niece of Civil Rights icon, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She is passionate about continuing the dialog of equal justice, human and civil rights in relation to her Aunt’s legacy. She is one of thirteen children of Daisy and Sylvester McCauley. Sylvester was Rosa’s only sibling. Susan was raised in southwest Detroit in the home that became a place of refuge for her aunt Rosa Parks, husband Raymond Parks and her mother Leona Edwards after fleeing Montgomery behind threats of retribution from the 1955 bus boycott. Her father Sylvester welcomed Rosa and Raymond Parks to stay in his modest home along with his wife and children until he could find them a place of their own.

Susan earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art Practice from Michigan State University in East Lansing Michigan. She is currently a licensed Realtor in Atlanta Georgia. She raised four children as a single mother between California and Georgia. Sean Douglas, Broderick Ryan, Whitney Bianca And Schuyler McCauley are all residing and thriving in metro Atlanta communities as young adults. Being a hands-on parent was one of her proudest accomplishments. She enjoys speaking publicly on her Aunt Rosa Parks’ enduring legacy in relation to her family history. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She enjoys building her ever expanding library, attending quilting classes, creating art, crafting and woodworking. Her goals are to visit various countries around the world, learn deep sea diving, search for sunken slave ships from the middle passages and explore artifacts of our untold history.

James R. Morgan III 

James R. Morgan III is a native of Newark, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Howard University where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and Africana Studies. After serving with the United States Department of State for nearly nine years, he enrolled in the Department of History at Morgan State University, where he received his Master of Arts degree in African American Studies. Mr. Morgan is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at Morgan State, where he also serves as a Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant.

Mr. Morgan is a scholar of black institutional life and active within the Prince Hall Masonic fraternity, serving as the Grand Historian of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia from 2014 to the present. He has contributed to several major projects to include serving on the Advisory Board of the Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Project, a contributing writer to the Picturing Black History project (sponsored by Ohio State University), and the Rituals in the Making oral history project which is sponsored by George Washington University with the support of the National Science Foundation. An avid genealogist, Mr. Morgan has been employed by both the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Mr. Morgan is also a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Mr. Morgan is also a distant relative of Rosa Parks.