Donald L. Hense
Chairman & Founder
Donald L. Hense, longtime executive director of the Friendship House social service agency, is a founder of Friendship Public Charter School. Donald serves as chairman of the Center for Youth and Family Investment, which provides extended learning programs to more than 2,000 children daily. He also co-founded the Bridges to Friendship Initiative, which spurred the Navy Yard revitalization and was recognized by Vice President Al Gore as a model community initiative.
Donald has served as vice president of the National Urban League, director of development of the Children’s Defense Fund, and director of governmental relations at Howard University, Boston University and Dartmouth College. He is a board member of the Center for Education Reform and the D.C. Arts and Humanities Collaborative and is treasurer of the D.C. Association of Charter Schools. In 2011, Donald was inducted into the National Charter Schools Hall of Fame.
Donald received his B.A. from Morehouse College and attended graduate school at Stanford University. He was a Rockefeller intern in economics at Cornell University, a Merrill scholar at the University of Ghana, a Ford Foundation fellow at Stanford University and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
Gregory Prince | Vice Chairman
Victor E. Long | Secretary
Darrin Glymph | Treasurer
Carol Thompson Cole
Unique Fullmore, Parent Representative
Tracy Gray
Eric McKinley King
Deborah McGriff
Jeanette Mendes, Parent Representative
Anise Walker
Chris White
Board of Trustees Meeting Calendar
- Thursday, January 28, 2021 (Agenda)
- Thursday, March 18, 2021 (Agenda)
- Thursday, May 13, 2021 (Agenda)
- Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (Agenda)
- Thursday, October 21, 2021 (Agenda)
- Thursday, December 16, 2021 (Agenda)
- Thursday, March 24, 2022 (Agenda)
- Thursday, May 19, 2022 (Agenda)
- Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Agenda)
- Thursday, December 15, 2022 (Agenda)
- Thursday, March 23, 2023 (Agenda)
- Thursday, May 18, 2023 (Agenda, Draft Minutes)
Approved Board Minutes
- Thursday, March 23, 2023
- Thursday, December 15, 2022
- Thursday, October 20, 2022
- Thursday, May 19, 2022
- Thursday, March 24, 2022
- Thursday, December 16, 2021
- Thursday, October 21, 2021
- Thursday, June 15, 2021
- Thursday, May 13, 2021
- Thursday, March 18, 2021
- Thursday, January 28, 2021
- Thursday, December 10, 2020
- Thursday, October 22, 2020
- Monday, June 22, 2020
- Thursday, May 14, 2020
- Thursday, March 12, 2020
- Thursday, December 12, 2019