STAFF

Rita Anita Linger

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Rita Anita Linger was born and raised in the “melt­ing pot” of New York City on the lower east-side of Man­hat­tan.  She has been respon­si­ble for direct­ing social jus­tice, human rela­tions, diver­sity, and com­mu­nity devel­op­ment ini­tia­tives around sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties and erad­i­ca­tion of poverty and vio­lence for thirty years.  She is also respon­si­ble for build­ing aware­ness and find­ing solu­tions around improved clin­i­cal encoun­ters in health­care for two decades.  She cur­rently serves as the President/CEO of SERA, Inc. (South­east Raleigh Assem­bly, Inc.)  SERA, Inc.’s mis­sion is to enhance the qual­ity of life for the res­i­dents of South­east Raleigh.

SERA, Inc. focus areas include:  Com­mu­nity Capac­ity Build­ing, Pub­lic Safety, Business/Equity, Health & Well­be­ing, Devel­op­ing the Entre­pre­neur­ial Spirit, Youth Empow­er­ment and Hous­ing.  Mrs. Linger for­merly served as the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the North Car­olina Coali­tion Against Domes­tic Vio­lence, a statewide orga­ni­za­tion which pro­vides sup­port ser­vices to local domes­tic vio­lence agen­cies and allied pro­fes­sion­als.  She was also respon­si­ble for found­ing a Social Jus­tice, Lead­er­ship, Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment, and Authen­tic Well­be­ing project called, “Cen­ter for Emer­gent Capa­bil­i­ties.”  She has served as the Ari­zona Supreme Court’s Fund­ing admin­is­tra­tor for ADR and Par­ent Edu­ca­tion Pro­grams, and has been respon­si­ble for launch­ing sev­eral non-profits and cre­at­ing sus­tain­able fund­ing streams for them.

Rita Anita believes in using person-centered processes to iden­tify, cul­ti­vate and syn­the­size capa­bil­i­ties within human sys­tems for pro­fes­sional and per­sonal suc­cess.  She believes as her favorite human­ist and psy­chol­o­gist, Abra­ham Maslow posits “People’s capa­bil­i­ties clamor to be used, and with­out those capa­bil­i­ties being real­ized, the per­son can atro­phy, and dis­ap­pear – dimin­ish­ing him/her for­ever.”  To that end, Mrs. Linger works to bring the best of peo­ple includ­ing youth to their own aware­ness, ulti­mately caus­ing them to self gen­er­ate authen­tic, human­is­tic and syn­er­gis­tic rela­tion­ships amongst and between peo­ple in the work­place and their wider com­mu­nity; expe­ri­enc­ing lead­er­ship in a way that will cre­ate solu­tions for seem­ingly intractable issues, and help pos­i­tively change and sus­tain human envi­ron­ments and communities.

Rita Anita Linger, MA
President/CEO
19 West Har­gett Street, Suite 200
Raleigh, North Car­olina 27601
(919) 747‑8420

David H. Brown

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Mr. David H. Brown, II is a res­i­dent of South­east Raleigh.  David is a grad­u­ate of Shaw Uni­ver­sity with a BS in Account­ing; and plans to pur­sue a Mas­ters Degree in Com­mu­nity Psy­chol­ogy.  He has over ten plus years expe­ri­ence engag­ing cit­i­zens in the process of improv­ing their neigh­bor­hoods, improv­ing their qual­ity of life, help­ing indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions estab­lish non-profit 501c3 orga­ni­za­tions, devel­op­ing social pro­grams to elim­i­nate or mit­i­gate risk fac­tors within com­mu­ni­ties and grant writ­ing (fed­eral and pri­vate) along with imple­ment­ing fund devel­op­ment strategies.

David fully com­pre­hends the impor­tance of local gov­ern­ments and com­mu­nity part­ner­ships; through his expe­ri­ence man­ag­ing two (2) May­oral cam­paigns, and a coor­di­nated cam­paign with for­mer United States Sen­a­tor Joseph R. Biden, (cur­rent Vice Pres­i­dent of the United States.)  He has also worked to assist over ten cit­i­zens in Raleigh to reach their goal of estab­lish­ing tax exempt non-profit orga­ni­za­tions.  He is a mem­ber of Body of Christ Church and heartily believes in vol­un­teer­ing.  His vol­un­teer activ­i­ties include pro­mot­ing the need for health and fit­ness to seniors in South­east Raleigh.

David comes from a fam­ily that believes in com­mu­nity activism and empow­er­ment; dri­ven by the likes of his mother who is a National Demo­c­ra­tic Del­e­gate, life mem­ber of the NAACP, Polit­i­cal Con­gress of Woman and 1st Vice Chair of the Wake County Demo­c­ra­tic Party.

David H. Brown
Com­mu­nity Engage­ment Man­ager
19 West Har­gett Street, Suite 200
Raleigh, North Car­olina 27601
(919) 747‑8420

Angela Jackson-Mann –Youth Pro­gram Coordinator

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Angela Jackson-Mann serves as SERA, Inc.‘s new Youth Pro­gram Coor­di­na­tor.  She is also cur­rently the Pro­gram Assis­tant, for Wake County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment, a pro­gram of the Greater Raleigh Cham­ber of Com­merce, a posi­tion she has held since Feb­ru­ary 2010. Wake County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment is the pri­mary eco­nomic devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tion in Wake County pro­vid­ing sup­port to twelve munic­i­pal­i­ties. The goal of this pro­gram is to retain and expand exist­ing Wake County busi­ness in addi­tion to recruit­ing new com­pa­nies that pro­vide qual­ity jobs for cit­i­zens in the region. Angela Jackson-Mann has over ten years of com­mu­nity ser­vice experience.

Angela has designed and devel­oped an Urban Youth Pro­gram for the South­east Raleigh area of Wake County of which she hopes to imple­ment in the very near fur­ther.  She has also served as a vol­un­teer, recruiter and men­tor for sev­eral youth pro­grams with the South­east Raleigh includ­ing: 4-H Youth Devel­op­ment Pro­gram, Girls Scouts of Amer­ica, Dig­i­tal Con­nec­tors and South­east Raleigh Assembly.

Angela grad­u­ated from City of Raleigh Neigh­bor­hood Col­lege — Class of 2010, and is cur­rently serv­ing a sec­ond year term as Vice Chair for South­east Raleigh Cit­i­zens Advi­sory Coun­cil. She serves as a Com­mu­nity Advi­sory Board Mem­ber for City of Raleigh – Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy with Gail Roper and Linda Jones. In her role as a com­mu­nity rela­tions vol­un­teer, Angela has helped plan 2011 City of Raleigh Neigh­bor­hood Exchange.  She is cur­rently serv­ing in her sec­ond year as a 2012 Chair Per­son for the Cit­i­zens Plan­ning Com­mit­tee for the City of Raleigh Neigh­bor­hood Exchange.

Prior to relo­cat­ing to Raleigh, North Car­olina Angela worked for the Depart­ment of the Navy in Nor­folk, Virginia. She holds a Secu­rity Mil­i­tary Clear­ance and cer­ti­fied in Antiter­ror­ism / Force Pro­tec­tion. Angela has over 15 years expe­ri­ence in telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion and busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion and is cur­rently pur­su­ing a degree at William Peace Col­lege in Lib­eral Stud­ies. She is a Wake County notary pub­lic and received a cer­tifi­cate of com­ple­tion in U. S. Small Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion – Help­ing Small busi­ness Suc­ceed in 2009.

Angela is a native New Yorker and a for­mer Girl Scout, with three chil­dren who are also ded­i­cated to serv­ing peo­ple and the com­mu­ni­ties in which they live. Angela is also a long­stand­ing mem­ber of the Order of East­ern Star. She believes in mak­ing a pos­i­tive dif­fer­ence in the com­mu­ni­ties within which she lives and works.

Karl Brustmeyer

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We would like to wel­come Karl Brust­meyer as an inte­gral part of SERA, Inc.’s devel­op­ment team.  Karl works with the Pres­i­dent of SERA, Inc. to develop and strengthen our tech­nol­ogy pro­gram­ming, specif­i­cally our Entre­pre­nau­r­ial Tech­nol­ogy Insti­tute as well as our Social Media Acad­emy. He is a social entre­pre­neur and pro­pri­etor of Itria Solu­tions, a tech­nol­ogy devel­op­ment com­pany. He has over 15 years expe­ri­ence in tech­nol­ogy admin­is­tra­tion and web devel­op­ment and is a grad­u­ate of New Hori­zons School of Tech­nol­ogy in Net­work Admin­is­tra­tion, CCNA and Microsoft Office Tech­nolo­gies, Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix, Amer­i­can Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion pro­gram in Strate­gic Lead­er­ship, United Way Project Board Room Development.

Karl has 5 years of expe­ri­ence serv­ing on sev­eral boards as an adviser in eco­nomic devel­op­ment, advo­cacy and orga­ni­za­tional devel­op­ment. He has been instru­men­tal in tak­ing a holis­tic view in problem-solving, plan­ning and devel­op­ing sus­tain­able pro­grams that addresses needs within the com­mu­nity. He has also helped men­tor many small busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions in best prac­tices of lever­ag­ing inter­net tech­nol­ogy, inno­v­a­tive social pro­grams to show­case and pro­mote their business/organizational objectives.

Through his involve­ment in local com­mu­nity advo­cacy he has effec­tively coor­di­nated the activ­i­ties for minor­ity groups to access large grant awards, and state and local city gov­ern­ment con­tracts. He was also instru­men­tal in the hir­ing of the first  HUB coor­di­na­tor for the Guil­ford county school sys­tem cre­at­ing 1000′s of jobs for local minorities.  Karl believes in empow­er­ing youth through pub­lic pol­icy, tech­nol­ogy and edu­ca­tion. He is cur­rently Vice Pres­i­dent of The United Caribbean Asso­ci­a­tion. He is also a mem­ber of NC Black Lead­er­ship Cau­cus, NAACP and National Asso­ci­a­tion of Young Black Elected Officials.

We are pleased to have Karl as a mem­ber of our SERA, Inc. team, pro­vid­ing his exper­tise to assist us in meet­ing our goal to enhance the qual­ity of life of south­east Raleigh res­i­dents through the pro­vi­sion of prac­ti­cal and applic­a­ble tech­nol­ogy edu­ca­tion, envi­ron­ment and infra-structural change.
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