UP the Tempo – Year Up Baltimore

Pictured (LtoR) Roland Selby, Year Up Baltimore executive director; Derrick Taliaferro, event chair; Marcus Johnson, event performer/Flo… Wine founder/owner; and Marcellus “The Bassman” Shepard, WEAA 88.9 FM syndicated personality

Pictured (LtoR) Kenneth Fields, Howard E. Rollins Foundation president; Levon Moore, retired government worker;and Sean Augustus, University Psychological Center Recovery Network director residential admissions

Pictured (LtoR) Roxy Umphery, Roxy Writes ghost fundraising strategist; Kenneth Fields, Howard E. Rollins Foundation president; and Mike Hollimon, Heritage Auto Group sales manager

Pictured (LtoR) Jenine Feaster, Baltimore-based mental health associate; Monet Jones, Baltimore City Community College librarian; Christin Williams, Baltimore-based network specialist; and Deborah Mosley, Highfield House office assistant

Pictured (LtoR) Chamari McLean, Horsetail Technologies junior security analyst; and Jill Driver, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield IT service desk supervisor

Pictured (LtoR) Ed Mullin, SC&H Group chief technology officer/Year Up Baltimore board member; Scott Robertson, Year Up Baltimore director of corporate partnerships; Duane Reid, Year Up Baltimore site director; and Isabella Reid, 12

Pictured (LtoR) Faith Thomas, Enterprise Community Partners lawyer; April Bell, Year Up Baltimore board member; and Marcie Koteen, Verizon Enterprise Solutions client partner

Pictured (LtoR) Antoine Foy, iCivil, Inc. civil engineer; and Risa Humphries, Victory Medical & Property owner

Guests could browse a buffet in one room, and a silent auction and vendors’ offerings in another.

Then, they relaxed under a tent behind the mansion to listen to Marcus Johnson and the Urban Jam Band.