REDTAIL FLIGHT ACADEMY - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Director
• Member of the Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Member of the Officers Team
• Treasurer

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors

Gabriel earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Fundaçao Armando Álvares Penteado, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as a post-graduate certificate in financial management at Ibmec Sao Paulo. He also honed his negotiation skills through training at Columbia Business School in New York City.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Officers Team
• President

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Military Officer and Nurse

Military officer and nurse Major General Irene Trowell-Harris was born on September 20, 1939 in Aiken, South Carolina to Irene Battle Trowell and Frank Trowell. She graduated from the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing in 1959 and the Aerospace School of Medicine Flight Nurse Branch in 1964. Trowell-Harris went on to receive her B.A. degree in health education from New Jersey City University in 1971, her M.P.H. degree from Yale University in 1973, and her Ed.D. degree in health education from Columbia University in 1983. In 1963, Trowell-Harris was commissioned into the Air National Guard, where she served as a clinical nurse, flight nurse, and flight nurse instructor and examiner in New York. In 1985, she was promoted to nurse administrator; and the following year she became the first Air National Guard nurse to command a medical clinic. In 1987, Trowell-Harris was named nurse advisor to the Air National Guard chief at the U.S. Air Force headquarters in Washington, D.C. In 1993, she was promoted to brigadier general, becoming the first African American woman general in the National Guard, and was named assistant to the Air National Guard director for medical readiness, doctrine and planning and nursing services in the Office of the Surgeon General. In 1998, Trowell-Harris was promoted to major general and appointed assistant to the director of the Air National Guard for human resources readiness, where she served until her retirement from the Air National Guard in 2001. In 2000, Trowell-Harris was named director of the Office of Health Care Inspections for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The following year, she was appointed director of the Center for Women Veterans for the Department of Veterans Affairs. She retired from the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2013. Trowell-Harris has taught at the Uniformed Services University, New York Medical College, Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing, and University of Missouri, Kansas City. Trowell-Harris has chaired nurse recruitment for the American Red Cross, Queens Division, New York; the ad hoc committee on physical fitness for the Air National Guard; and the Air National Guard Human Resources Quality Board. She has also served on the boards of New Jersey City University, the Lee A. Archer Jr. Youth Flying Program, and RedTail Flight Academy and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 2013, she established the Dr. Irene Trowell-Harris Endowed Leadership Fund at the American Nurses Foundation. Trowell-Harris's numerous honors and awards include the Legion of Merit and Meritorious Service Medal, three honorary doctorates, the Dr. James D. Weaver Society Award, and the VA Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community Award. In 1998, Trowell-Harris became the first woman to have a Tuskegee Airmen Chapter named in her honor, the Major General Trowell-Harris Chapter, in Newburgh, New York. In 2019, she was recognized by the Yale University School of Public Health as one of four Yale women pioneers in public health. Trowell-Harris resides in Arlington, Virginia. Major General Irene Trowell-Harris was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on June 10, 2022.

Job Titles:

• Director of the ANG
• Retired

General Weaver retired in February 2002 as Director, Air National Guard (ANG),after 35 years of military service. Upon retirement, he founded PAW & Associates, a consulting and lobbying firm that addresses issues related to defense and homeland security. General Weaver was instrumental in planning the first Total Force Joint STARS unit at Robins AFB, Georgia, and resolving a multitude of implementation challenges. Besides being involved in a multitude of defense force structure and readiness issues, he has expanded PAW & Associates efforts into information technology and medical arenas. General Weaver is actively involved in raising awareness and funds in Congress for the juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation which works to help find a cure for Type I diabetes. The Technologies for Metabolic Monitoring program is named after his daughter, Julia Weaver, who contracted juvenile diabetes at the age of two. As the Director of the ANG, General Weaver was responsible for formulating, developing and coordinating all policies, and plans and programs affecting more than 106,000 Air National Guard Citizen-Airmen serving in over 1,841 units throughout the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.. During his tenure, he oversaw the most aggressive modernization program in the history of the ANG which allowed Air Guard forces to become full partners in the US Air Force Aerospace Expeditionary Force. Previously, General Weaver commanded the 105th Airlift Group, Stewart ANG Base, New York, where he directed the largest aircraft conversion in the history of the ANG. In this position, he also administered the extensive modernization of the base, which was the largest military construction program in the history of the Reserve Forces. Commissioned through Officer Training School in1967, General Weaver is a command pilot with more than 2,800 flying hours in the C-sA, F4, O-2, T-37 and T-38 aircraft. He is a veteran of Operations |UST CAUSE, DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, and PROVIDE HOPE, as well as numerous other humanitarian missions. General Weaver is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board

Rich Walsh has 40 years of wide-ranging experience in commercial and business aviation, worldwide security programs and enterprise risk management. He has an extensive track record in leading organizations through business aviation integration/divestiture, identifying risks/rewards, driving balanced decision-making and executing on strategic plans that enhance financial, operational and risk outcome scenarios in large multi-national organizations. He is a subject matter expert on aviation and risk management best practices, leadership development, strategic crisis management, technology interface and operational controls that create value based, business aviation, security, enterprise risk and safety management programs. In previous roles he has served s as the Vice President of Aviation and Travel Security for multiple Fortune 100 companies, managing complex and dynamic global business aviation assets and the Travel Security organizations. Rich also served in multiple senior leadership roles at United Airlines. Key areas of emphasis included training, standards, compliance, quality management, and flight operations. Rich serves on the National Business Aviation Association Board of Directors and on the Tuskegee Airmen RedTail Flight Academy. He is a frequent keynote speaker on the subjects of DE&I, proactive risk management, human factors, organizational resiliency, automation in the workplace and strategic talent management. He has also served and led multiple crisis management teams and Corporate Reputational events. He authored the National Business Aviation Association training and automation guidelines for the Very Light Jet market introduction. He is type rated on 10 turbo-jet aircraft and has accumulated over 17,000 hours of global flight experience.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Member of the Officers Team
• Secretary

As an accomplished attorney, Stacey offers almost 20 years of experience in legal/compliance arena, negotiations, and mediation/arbitration. Throughout her career, she has excelled in providing clients with dedicated representation, negotiations, and settlements. Stacey is highly skilled in identifying core legal issues behind complex legal matters and crafting understandable and persuasive arguments. Today, Stacey's area of expertise includes real estate, family law, and bankruptcy. Her career started off with handling bankruptcy filings through the U.S. Trustees Program. She shifted to the Legal Compliance arena, and worked on major regulatory audits in the financial industry. With her desire to get back to her public interest roots, Stacey moved into the non-profit sector working with religious organizations to help improve the socio-economic conditions in under served communities. In that capacity, she motivated internal and external stakeholders and developed strategic methods to meet community needs, which included but was not limited to capacity building, operational and management assistance. Stacey successfully engages in relationship building by communicating with internal stakeholders and managing staff including volunteers while supporting and leading the board of directors towards fulfilling the organization's mission.