Board of Directors
Michael D. Herman, ESQ.
President
Former Vice President, 2020-2022
Michael D. Herman has been a practicing attorney since 1992. Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Washington College of Law at American University where he earned his juris doctor degree cum laude in 1992. He served eight years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Prince George’s County before becoming Chief of Staff to the Prince George’s County Executive.
Michael opened his own law firm in 2010, where he specializes in business law, litigation, land use/zoning, personal injury, and government relations. His clients range from small to mid-sized businesses, non-profit organizations, as well as individuals
Michael is also a former elected official, where he served four terms on the Town Council, and one term as Mayor of the Town of Riverdale Park, where he currently resides. Michael was a Big Brother, founder and former President of the Riverdale Boys and Girls Club He was honored as the Big Brother of the Year for the Washington D.C. area Chapter of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America, and as Athletic Supporter of the Decade by the Riverdale Boys and Girls Club.
Peter McPhun, CPA, MBA, and MA
Treasurer
Peter is a devout Christian and ordained minister. He earned a BBA degree with a major in accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College, an MBA degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and an MA degree from Western Seminary. Peter began his career in public accounting in 1984 at the New York office of Deloitte Haskins & Sells. He later joined the internal audit department at American International Group where he spend one year and then attended a graduate school.
Upon graduating in 1992, he joined the Portland, Oregon office of Coopers & Lybrand and later transferred to the Seattle office and then the Washington, D.C. office. In 1999, Peter left PricewaterhouseCoopers and joined Pepco Energy Services, Inc. (PES) as the Corporate Controller. He spent almost eleven years at PES and contributed to the exponential growth of that deregulated energy marketing company. After working for Microfinance International Corporation for approximately two years, Peter joined the United States Securities and Exchange Commission where he presently works as an accountant in the Division of Corporation Finance.
Peter has served as a lecturer at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business instructing undergraduate and graduate accounting courses. In his spare time Peter enjoys performing volunteer services, playing the guitar and reading.
Aimee Olivo
Secretary
Aimee Olivo is a passionate community builder and advocate for equity and social justice. She serves as the executive director of Art Works Now.
Previously, Aimee served as the Chief of Staff for Prince George’s County Council Member Dannielle Glaros (D-District 3). Aimee is most proud of her work to promote economic development, support non-profit organizations, improve the environment, and promote community in that role.
Aimee has held numerous volunteer leadership roles advocating for educational equity and student success. She was appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to serve on the Board of Trustees for Prince George’s Community College in 2010 and continued in that role through February 2022. She served as a member and chair of the Prince George’s County Commission for Education Excellence under County Executive Rushern Baker.
In 2012, Aimee was recognized by the Prince George’s County Social Innovation Fund as a member of their inaugural “Prince George’s 40 Under Forty” cohort. She graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University), in Washington, D.C., with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and earned her Master’s in Business Administration from Marymount University in Arlington, VA.
Jaynee Acevedo
Board Executive
Daughter of an international airline pilot, Jaynee and her family spent their lives traveling and learning from their home base of Long Island. After her four years at Penn State, she moved to Washington DC where she took a job at The Nature Conservancy. From there, she inevitably fell into the realm of hospitality, design, and food.
Most of her career was spent in special event design for embassies, banks, corporations, non-profits, and the multi-faceted museums and programs for The Smithsonian Institute. From there she and her husband purchased an abandoned 34-room mansion in Central Virginia, re-zoned, renovated, furnished, marketed, and opened a bed & breakfast which they operated for 10 years.
Returning to DC and the special events world, she was hired away by Computer Sciences Corporation where she fulfilled the role of Operations Manager of CSC’s global marketing and conference center, The Executive Briefing Center, hosting its highest-level clients for 13 years.
Before retiring, she was hired by Catholic Charities as the Executive Director of the SHARE Food Network, a mature food distribution network selling deeply discounted groceries within a footprint stretching from Baltimore to Newport News, with a full time staff of 10, and thousands of volunteers. During that time, she oversaw the transition of her Governing Board to an Advisory Council, and moved the central warehouse of 25 years to a new facility with six weeks’ notice.
In retirement, she writes, gardens, volunteers in the community, and takes spectacular photographs. She joined the Board of Passion and Compassion in 2021.
Ben Simon
Former President, Term 2020-2022
Ben Simon is the co-founder and former CEO of America’s leading affordable, mission-driven online grocer, Imperfect Foods. Imperfect serves most of the continental U.S., employing over 1,000 living-wage employees and recovering over 100 million pounds of food to date. Ben got his start in the world of food waste as an undergrad at the University of Maryland, where he founded Food Recovery Network, nonprofit aimed at eliminating waste in college cafeterias.
Jackie Mayi
Former Secretary, Term 2020-2022
Jacqueline Mayi is a Complaint Manager at the Department of Homeland Security with 35 years of Federal service. Jackie has dedicated the last 25 years to serving her community in various roles. Early in her service she accepted the position of Vice President of the Bladensburg Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and Vice President of the Bladensburg Community Civic Association (BICA). Later, she served as a Board of Directors on End Time Harvest Ministries (ETHM) and the National Science Foundation Child Development Center boards.
Jackie has served her church community at Christian Life Center for over 20 years in the children’s and youth departments. Jackie is the proud mother of four adult daughters and three grandchild and resides in Hyattsville, MD.