Board Of Directors / Governance

Matthew Moreland, Chair mmoreland@lfno.org – phone: 504-832-3000
Adrienne Warren, Secretary awarren@lfno.org

Ann Meese, Board Member ameese@lfno.org
Lauren Knight, Board Member  lknight@lfno.org
Shearon Roberts, Board Member, sroberts@lfno.org
David Amoss, Board Member damoss@lfno.org
Anitra Walker, Board Member awalker@lfno.org
Leandro Fukushima Freitas, Board Member lfukushima@lfno.org
Khrista McCarden, Board Member kmccarden@lfno.org
Cassandra Sanchez, Board Member casanchez@lfno.org
Stephen Sewell, Board Member ssewell@lfno.org

Matthew Moreland

Chair
coming soon…

Adrienne Warren

Secretary

Adrienne Warren is the Director of Health Grants at Baptist Community Ministries, and brings over 10 years of administrative, fiscal and programming expertise in the health services arena. She has served in varying roles, providing strategic direction and oversight to public health programs located in Louisiana as well as Africa, the Caribbean and South America.

Adrienne and her husband, Lionel, are proud parents of two Lycee students. She is honored to serve on the Board and is excited to contribute toward LFNO’s ongoing growth and success.

Anitra Walker

Board Member
Anitra Walker currently serves as a high school administrator, student/teacher mentor, professional development facilitator, and author. Ms. Walker has a passion for education and enjoys working with students, teachers, and parents. She received her B.A. in English and her Ed.S. in gifted education from Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. In addition, she received her M.Ed in secondary education from Southern University, and she is currently working on her Ed.D in educational leadership at Nova Southeastern University. She is extremely excited about her new roles with Lycée Français, and she is committed to doing her best to serve its parents, students, and teachers.

Lauren Knight

Board Member
Lauren Knight is passionate about providing opportunities for students and their families to live active, healthy, choice-filled lives. She was previously a school operations manager and secondary special education teacher who taught at KIPP New Orleans. Lauren is an experienced leader in school operations who has dedicated her career to supporting charter schools.

Shearon Roberts

Board member
Shearon Roberts, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Mass Communication and a faculty member in African American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, a Masters in Mass Communication from LSU and a B.A. from Dillard University. She currently serves as the director of Xavier’s honors program. She is a past president of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication and serves on the board of the Louisiana Communication Association. She is a co-author/author of three books and a former award-winning journalist.

David Amoss

Board Member
David Amoss, CFA is an Equity Research Analyst covering the Midstream and Upstream energy sectors with Heikkinen Energy Advisors. Prior to joining Heikkinen, Mr. Amoss covered the Upstream energy sector at Howard Weil and Iberia Capital Partners. He previously worked as an economic consultant for AECOM in both Chicago and Sydney Australia, specializing in front-end traffic and revenue forecasting for transportation and energy projects. Mr. Amoss is a CFA Charterholder and currently serves on the Board of CFA Society of Louisiana where he has held the positions of President and Treasurer previously. He has been a member of the Finance Committee at LFNO since 2014 and was Chair of the Marketing Committee for the Board of Crimestoppers New Orleans. David lives in Lakeview with his wife Missy and their three children.

Ann Meese

Board member
Ann Meese is a retired educator who moved to New Orleans in July 2005 from Columbia, Missouri.  She received her PhD in General School Administration from the University of Missouri in 1996 with a secondary emphasis in African American Studies.  Her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Cincinnati were in American History.  After teaching social studies in the West Lafayette and Columbia Public Schools, she served as curriculum director and then elementary principal for the Roselle V School District in suburban Chicago, Superintendent of the Bosworth R-V School District in rural northwestern Missouri and ended her career in the inner city as elementary principal of Jefferson School for the St. Louis Public School district.  In New Orleans she served three years on the Lycee School Board beginning in its second year.  She currently is a long time member of Rayne United Methodist Church’s Early Childhood Program Advisory Board and also a member of both the finance committee and the mission committee.  She is dedicated to the expansion of the Zero to Three Early Childhood System under the Louisiana Department of Education.

Khrista McCarden

Board member

Khrista McCarden is the Hoffman Fuller Associate Professor of Tax Law at Tulane University. She earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and she earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.  She began her legal career with Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles and has practiced tax law internationally. She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City.  She serves as the Chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Section’s Executive Committee.  Professor McCarden is also a Contributing Editor for the Nonprofit Law Professors Blog.  Professor McCarden is a Board Member of the Tulane Tax Institute.  In 2019, she was appointed to the Louisiana State Law Institute, Successions and Donations Committee.  She is the parent of a Lycee student and is looking forward to advising and promoting the unique community of Lycée Français.

Stephen Sewell

Board member