Woodrow B. Grant, Jr.

Equity Assurance and Compliance Branch

Nominated by Renée Yarbough-Williams, Linda Shevitz, and Maggie Green, MSDE

- Woodrow Grant (Woody) is an individual who holds true to his beliefs relating to human and civil rights from leading sit-ins as a college student to serving in the Peace Corps to serving for more than three decades as the Chief of the Equity Assurance and Compliance Branch at the MSDE. He coordinates the “Education This Is Multicultural and Achievement” (ETMA) Network and is Co-Chair of the Ad hoc Committee on African American Males. In addition, he is also an active member of the Achievement Initiative for Maryland’s Minority Students Steering (AIMMS) Committee, which makes recommendations to MSDE in areas relating to achievement disparities between student groups. Woody has been honored by the Maryland Multicultural Coalition for outstanding contributions to multicultural education and recently received an award from the Maryland Association for Equal Employment Opportunity Personnel (MAEOP). Woody volunteers his time for the Boy Scouts of America, Citizens for Maryland Libraries Board of Directors, Harford County Public Library Board of Trustees, and Prisoner’s Aid Association of Maryland, Inc. He is a mentor in the MSDE Lunch Buddies program, which mentors elementary grade boys in Baltimore City. He believes firmly that educators have what it takes to assure the achievement of all children and supports that belief daily providing a caring and nurturing atmosphere.