Staff Roster

Link to Staff Roster document.

Staff Biographies

• Bruce Adams
• Austin Heyman
• Mansfield Kaseman
• Daniel Koroma
• Bob Levey
• Julian Norment
• Diane Vy Nguyen-Vu
• Karla Silvestre

The diverse and extensive experience of our staff demonstrates the Office of Community Partnerships capacity and commitment to provide excellent service to our community leaders and community members. We encourage you read about our staff members' backgrounds.

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Bruce Adams

Director
Office of Community Partnerships
Montgomery County Community Engagement Cluster
Rockville Memorial Library
21 Maryland Avenue, Ste 330
Rockville, MD 20850
Office: 240-777-2558
Cell: 240-855-8727
bruce.adams@montgomerycountymd.gov

Independent Sector/Nonprofit Community

Bruce Adams is the Director of Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett's Office of Community Partnerships (OCP). The Office of Community Partnerships carries on Montgomery County's historic commitment to empower our ethnic communities while adding a charge from County Executive Leggett to build strong partnerships between the County government and the County's nonprofit organizations and faith communities.

Adams served as an elected member of the Montgomery County Council from 1986-94, including a term as Council President (1991-92). His initiatives included Community Service Day, Committee for Montgomery, Montgomery Housing Initiative, 50% recycling goal, legislation to prohibit smoking in shared workplaces, Capital Crescent Trail, Commission on Child Care, Technology Enterprise Center, and the Bethesda Urban Partnership. Prior to serving on the County Council, he served on numerous State and County boards and commissions, including chair of the Charter Review Commission (1979-82) and chair of the task force that created Montgomery Community Television (1983-84).

Bruce Adams has served as a Senior Fellow at The James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland (1995-97), a Fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University (1979), an Associate of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation (1982-1986), and as National Research Director for Common Cause (1977-1982). At Common Cause, Adams authored model open government legislation enacted by state and local governments across the nation. Adams is co-author of two books on the presidential personnel process and numerous articles on governance, community building, and leadership.

He is founder of the Bethesda Community Base Ball Club (1998), Lazarus Leadership Fellows Program at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (1997), and Fields of Dreams after-school program in Washington, DC (2002). From 1987-96, Adams taught the John W. Macy, Jr. Leadership Seminar for Montgomery County high school students. From 1988-93, Adams was a Lecturer at the graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of Princeton University (1970) and the Georgetown University Law Center (1974). A 1966 graduate of The Landon School, Adams received the Kupka Distinguished Alumnus Award from the school's Alumni Association in 2003.

Adams was named a 1998 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine and received the 1993 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governmentsof Scull Metropolitan Public Service Award as the elected official who has contributed most significantly to the enhancement of intergovernmental cooperation in the Washington Metropolitan Region. In 2005, he received the William Prescott Allen Award from the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce.

Bruce Adams, 65, lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Margaret (Peggy) Engel, a journalist, and their children, Emily and Hugh. Bruce and Peggy are co-authors of Baseball Vacations, a guide to family baseball vacations (Fodors/Random House, 1997, 2000, & 2002).

What does Bruce say about the County?
What's so great about working in Montgomery County is that we have the capacity to create the nation's finest multicultural community. I grew up here, and I have seen that as the County has grown more diverse, we have become smarter, richer, and much more interesting. We have the talent. We have the resources. But great challenges and disparities remain. We can do it. We can achieve our goal if we can learn to work even more effectively together across the lines of race, income, religion, and sector that too often divide and diminish communities.

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Austin Heyman

Senior Fellow
Office of Community Partnerships
Montgomery County Community Engagement Cluster
21 Maryland Avenue, Ste 330
Office: 240-777-2592
austin.heyman@montgomerycountymd.gov

Seniors 55+

Austin Heyman founded and served as the Director of Interages and the Montgomery County Intergenerational Resource Center from 1986-1997. Governor Parris Glendening appointed Austin as a delegate to the 1995 White House Conference on Aging. Senator Paul Sarbanes appointed Austin as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Congresswoman Constance Morella nominated Austin and Interages for the Public Services Round Table Award. He continues to serve as member of the Board of Interages. Austin was a member of the Leggett Administration Transition Team and was appointed in 2007 as a Senior Fellow in the Office of the County Executive, Office of Community Partnerships.

During his 25 years of service with the federal government as an administrator of our foreign assistance programs, Austin was also deeply involved with community groups, working on educational and youth issues, serving as the first Chair of the Montgomery County Commission on Children and Youth, as President of the Montgomery County Council of PTAs, and as a member of the Maryland Task Force on Guidance and Counseling. He was a founding board member and Vice-Chair of the Volunteer Partnership Montgomery and Co-Leader of the John Macy Leadership Seminar. He has served on the Retired Seniors Volunteer Programs Advisory Council and the Community Relations Committee of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce. Austin received an Award for Distinguished Service to Public Education from the Montgomery County Board of Education in 1997. In 1997 he initiated discussions leading to the creation of the Maryland Intergenerational Coalition. County Executive Douglas Duncan appointed Austin to the Commission on Aging in 1998. In 2004 Austin received the Montgomery County Paths of Achievement Award. In 2008 Austin was inducted into the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame and in 2009 he was inducted into the Maryland Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.

Austin has served as the moderator for two television programs on County Cable, Seniors Today, and Montgomery Citizens Agenda. He initiated the Vital Living Initiative in 1999 and currently chairs the Montgomery County Vital Living Steering Committee. In 2001 he proposed the creation of a Senior Leadership Montgomery class which was implemented by Leadership Montgomery in 2002.

Austin served as an attorney with a Wall Street law firm in New York City. During his career with the United States Agency for International Development he represented the United States on the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris during the 1960s. Austin has undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, a Master of International Public Policy from John Hopkins and a Certificate from the Academy of International Law at The Hague.

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Mansfield Kaseman

Since his student days the Reverend Mansfield “Kasey” Kaseman has been engaged in ecumenical and interfaith ministries aimed at creating the beloved community.  The model he implemented for Theological Education in the Urban Setting was adopted by Harvard, Boston University and Weston Divinity Schools.  His engagement in the Civil Rights Movement included providing security for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., establishing non-profits such as the Blue Hill Christian Center in Roxbury, MA. and helping to implement Racial Justice Now.

In a decade of service with United Church on the Green in New Haven, CT Kasey formed partnerships with Yale, New Haven Foundation, Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO, State and Municipal officials, and religious organizations in founding non-profits and changing policies that impacted public education, urban renewal, anti-poverty programs, civil rights, affordable housing and healthcare.  Examples are the first Hospice in America, Downtown Cooperative Ministry, Aperture One, Junta for Progressive Action and Branford Royal Grant Corporation.

In establishing a new church in Tallahassee, FL he simultaneously formed a statewide network for impacting the state legislature and implemented a budget committing 50 percent to mission and social justice.  The Florida Impact Program, seventh Habitat for Humanity and Planned Parenthood established then are running strong. 

Moving to Rockville in 1979 Kasey revitalized Rockville United Church, incorporated Community Ministries of Rockville, engaged the political, civic, religious and business sectors in meeting common interests.  The Caregiver's Coalition of Rockville, Emergency Assistance, Elderly Homecare, Latino Outreach, Manna, Habitat for Humanity and the Kaseman Clinic are among organizations he helped found and grow.  Outside of Montgomery County he served as Adjunct Faculty at Wesley Theological Seminary, Treasure of the National Community Ministry Network and President of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation.   

Since 2006 Kasey has served as Senior Vice President of CTIS (philanthropy, community service and health disparities), and Vice President of Van Eperen & Company (strategic planning, marketing and corporate social responsibility).

He has degrees from Westmar College, Andover Newton Theological School and Yale Divinity School.  He has certificate studies and continuing education at Oxford University, American University, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, and Eden, Princeton, and Lancaster Theological Seminary’s. 

Currently he serves on the boards of the Primary Care Coalition, Open Health Systems Laboratory, Low Vision Center, Play Ball America and the Civilizations Exchange and Cooperation Foundation.  He and his wife, Dianne, have three adult children and seven grandchildren.  His hobbies are kayaking, photography, golf and reading.   

What does Kasey think about the County?
I consider it an honor and privilege to be to be part of a team committed to making Montgomery County the beloved community.  I have been working privately toward that goal since 1979 and now as a public servant I look forward to forging partnerships that can accomplish far more than any one individual, department or institution can do alone.  I know the resources of our community are more than adequate for meeting the needs and aspirations of our deserving residents.  I also believe our faith communities are exceptionally well positioned to help us become a more compassionate and welcoming community.

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Daniel Koroma

Eastern Montgomery Regional Center
3300 Briggs Chaney Road
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Office: 240-777-2584
Cell: 301-523-6214
daniel.koroma@montgomerycountymd.gov

African Community
Caribbean Community

Mr. Koroma is a Community Liaison at the County Executive's Office and the Community Liaison to the African and Caribbean communities. Mr. Koroma has worked with the many non-profits in the Washington DC area and sits on the Board of the Smithsonian National Museum of Africa Art. Prior to joining the County Government, Mr. Koroma worked as a Global Banking Strategist for Bank of American and later led the Global Trade Services Group for Bank of America in Northern Virginia.

When he was the Business Development Manager for seven years, Mr. Koroma conducted several business seminars in Montgomery County, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia. Mr. Koroma attended the University of Maryland, College Park where in majored in International Business and Public Policy. He also worked for the University's Computer Science Department for two years. Mr. Koroma and his wife live in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Bob Levey

Senior Fellow - Sister Cities
21 Maryland Avenue, Ste 330
Rockville, MD 20850
Office: 240-777-2584
robert.levey@montgomerycountymd.gov

Sister Cities

Bob Levey, a prize-winning journalist who has covered the Washington scene since the Johnson Administration, is a Senior Fellow supporting the Sister Cities program.

For 23 years, he wrote a daily column, "Bob Levey's Washington," for The Washington Post. The column looked at all aspects of life in the Nation's Capital. It won major awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Journalism Review. Currently he writes a monthly column for Senior Beacon Newspapers.

Seven times, Bob Levey was named one of the most popular columnists in Washington by Washingtonian magazine for his Post column. Earlier in his 36-year career at The Post, Bob Levey covered Presidential politics, Congress, local news and sports.

In 1999, Bob Levey was named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine in recognition of his community service through his column and as a hands-on volunteer.

Bob Levey has also had an extensive career in the electronic media. Over the course of more than 20 years, he worked for nine radio stations, four TV stations and one popular Internet site as a commentator and talk show host. Levey was voted the 1994 Radio Talk Show Host of the Year in the Washington market. In 1996, he was named one of the most important radio talk show hosts in America by Talkers Magazine. His on-line chats for washingtonpost.com, called "Levey Live," won consistently high ratings.

Bob Levey has also served as Senior Vice President for Development at Washington Hospital Center Foundation and as a journalism professor at four major research universities. He runs a consulting practice for local non-profits to help them refine their messages and distribute them more effectively.

Levey was born and raised in New York City. He attended The University of Chicago where he earned a bachelor's degree with special honors in English. He has spoken to college, business and social groups all over the country, and has received the top rating as a speaker by the International Platform Association, the country's leading speakers' bureau.

In 2000, Washington Post Books published Washington Album: A Pictorial History of the Nation’s Capital, a 200-page illustrated history of the local city. Levey co-authored the book with his wife, Jane Freundel Levey, a historian. Levey is the author of two other books, one a collection of columns, the other a look at local Washington.

In his spare time, Bob Levey has been a semi-professional folk singer, a union president and a national champion tournament bridge player. Residents of Bethesda, Bob and his wife are the parents of two children, Emily and Alexander.

Manager of the Gilchrist Center