BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHARLY CARTER
Charly Carter is the founder of Step Up Maryland, a progressive organizing and advocacy group, and was the founding director of the group Maryland Working Families. She also has extensive experience in the labor movement.
ADRIANNE FLYNN
Adrianne Flynn is the Internships and Career Development
Director, as well as a senior lecturer, at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill
College of Journalism. She has run both the Annapolis and Washington, D.C., bureaus of
Capital News Service. In her long career as a reporter, she covered nearly every beat at
news outlets in four states, specializing in politics and public policy. Her last reporting
assignment was as a Washington, D.C., correspondent for The Arizona
Republic. Flynn is the vice president of
the Maryland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
SEBASTIAN JOHNSON
Sebastian Johnson is a public policy consultant and
philanthropic strategist. He is a grants manager with Arnold Ventures, where he helps to
oversee the philanthropic organization’s criminal justice portfolio in corrections and
reentry. He has been a senior associate at Freedman Consulting LLC; a State Policy Fellow at
the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; and a Teach for America corps member in
Lawrence, MA, where he taught third-grade math and social studies. He is a graduate of
Harvard University, Georgetown University and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
JOSH KURTZ
Maryland Matters
co-founder and Editor Josh Kurtz is the
leading chronicler of Maryland politics and government. He began covering the State House in
1995 for The Gazette newspapers,
and has been writing about state and local politics ever since. Kurtz later became an editor
at Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, and in 2010, began work at
E&E News, an online subscription-only publisher of news websites covering
energy and environmental issues. For seven years, he led a staff of 20 reporters at
E&E Daily, which covers energy and environmental policy on Capitol Hill and
in national politics. Kurtz also covered politics for another E&E publication,
Climatewire.
LEONARD LUCCHI
Leonard Lucchi is an attorney and lobbyist. He is the
former president of the Maryland Government Relations Association. He served as the
director of legislative affairs for the Prince George’s County government and was a Prince
George’s County Attorney. With more than 30 years as a legislative advocate at the federal,
state and local levels, Lucchi has a deep understanding of public policy. He is credited
with persuading the Maryland General Assembly to enact a law requiring the installation of
carbon-monoxide detectors in new residential construction.
LOUIS PECK
Maryland Matters
Co-founder Louis Peck is the founding editor
of National Journal’s CongressDaily, who,
over nearly two decades, built the publication into essential reading for members of
Congress and their staffs, along with lawyers, lobbyists, businesses, advocates and federal
officials. He is now a contributing editor for Bethesda Magazine,
providing comprehensive and sophisticated coverage of Montgomery County politics, and is a
senior author at the Almanac of American
Politics.
TERRELL BOSTON SMITH
Terrell Boston Smith’s service in government includes his current position as the chief financial officer in the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office and his time as a special assistant to Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh. Smith was the campaign director for Frosh’s 2014 campaign and has also worked at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, as a government relations manager and consultant at the law office of Frank D. Boston III, and for the Baltimore Community Foundation.