NCPN Advisory Board Members

Felicia Gray-Watson joined the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction as a Career Development Consultant in 2006. She became Section Chief for CTE Support Services in 2010, where she directs and provides leadership for Career Development, Tech Prep, Civil Rights, High Schools that Work, Instructional Management and Special Populations program. Prior to joining North Carolina Public Schools, Felicia spent fourteen years as a counselor and Career Development Coordinator with Wake County Public Schools.

Passionate about helping students recognize the connection between the classroom and the real world, Felicia enjoys providing opportunities and resources for students to make the connection. She directed the development of the NC Career Clusters Guide and was appointed to the Lt. Governor's Joining Our Businesses and Schools (JOBS) Commission. Felicia assisted with the implementation of NC First Gentleman's Students@Work initiative, which provided job shadowing opportunities for over 17,000 middle school students. Currently she coordinates the annual Career and Technical Education Summer Conference, and assists with the implementation of North Carolina's Career and College Promise Program. Felicia served on the 2011 NCPN conference planning team. She was recently selected as a 2011-2012 fellow in the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP).

Felicia is a member of the Association for Career and Technical Education (where she is a member of the Policy Committee), NC-ACTE, and the National Consortium for State Guidance Leadership (past president). Felicia holds an undergraduate degree in Home Economics, with a concentration in Child Development and a Master's degree in School Counseling. In her free time, she enjoys the company of family and friends, reading, Zumba, and traveling.

Mortenous A. Johnson, Manager, Office of Pre-College Programs at Sinclair Community College, is responsible for the strategic planning and innovative program development to provide supplemental education and college courses to late-middle and high school students. Mortenous serves as the College’s director for Carl D. Perkins CTE and is responsible for overseeing the programs legislative requirements as prescribed for postsecondary institutions. He manages a $4.2 million operating budget to include federal, state, private, and institutional funds to ensure student-centered learning opportunities. Mortenous has a simple guiding motto: Speak it into existence… but do the work!

Jeraline Marsh currently serves as a Career & Technical Education Specialist with the School District of Palm Beach County, FL. She is responsible for district Career Pathways initiatives, Criminal Justice career academies, CTE Data, and Marketing. She specializes in curriculum integration, developing career academies, developing career pathways consortium partnerships, building and implementing programs of study, articulation agreements, and counselor training related to student academic and career development. Jeraline has previously worked as a high school business teacher (5 yrs) and high school counselor and coordinator (8 yrs). Jeraline also serves as an adjunct instructor in Palm Beach Atlantic University's Graduate Counseling Psychology Program where she teaches Career Development Practices and Systems. Jeraline received her Doctorate from the Fischler School of Education and Human Services of Nova Southeastern University. Her dissertation was entitled "An Investigation of Computer Technology Use on the Job Responsibilities and Functions of High School Counselors.

Dr. Marsh is the President-Elect for the National Association for Tech Prep Leaders, President for the Florida Career Pathways Network, and Advisory Board member for the National Career Pathways Network and the Florida Association for Career and Technical Education.

In her spare time she enjoys conducting community service projects through her sorority, bowling, golfing, Zumba, and learning new computer programs.

Annette Parker has served as the Executive Director, National Center of Excellence in Advanced Automotive Manufacturing and the System Director, Workforce & Economic Development at the Kentucky Community & Technical College System since 2007. Previously, she was the Department Chair, of the Manufacturing Engineering Technologies Department at Lansing Community College from 2002-2007. Prior to that she served 12 years on the faculty of Lansing Community College teaching college degree seeking students, corporate training, and high school students a K-12 school in Michigan. Her industry experience includes 11 years at General Motors, 1 year at Steel Case, and 2 years at the Wohlert Corporation. Dr. Parker holds an associate degree in Industrial Drafting from Lansing Community College, a bachelor’s degree in Technical Education and a master’s degree in Career and Technical Education both from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Western Kentucky University.

On March 20, 2013, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Board of Trustees appointed Annette Parker the next president of South Central College. Parker takes over as president July 1.

In her current position as Interim Dean the Center for Workforce, Community & Economic Development, Sharon Peery is responsible for creating workforce solutions and lifelong learning options and for oversight of off-campus training centers, Procurement Technical Assistance Center, and the Small Business Development Center. Over the past seventeen months she has led the Southwest Virginia Career Pathways Partnership Consortium to develop, document, and implement a career pathways system for the Energy Industry.

Her personal career pathway has included thirteen years in career development at Southwest Virginia Community College, twenty-one years of marketing/marketing management with twelve years as a small business owner, two and a half years in the non-profit sector, and two years as a high school mathematics teacher.

Her formal education includes an M. ED. Degree in Student Personnel Services from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, a B.A. Degree in Mathematics from Columbia College, Columbia, SC, as well as a stackable Career Studies Certificate in Real Estate from Southwest Virginia Community College, Richlands, VA.

Mark is a product of Tech Prep initiatives. In the mid 1970's Mark was selected to participate in a new program in which high school students constructed a residential home. Since that experience Mark's career has been focused on employee training, education and development. Since 1998, Mark has been a program and project manager for the Boeing Company Educator Internship and Tech Prep student programs. Mark also serves on the Washington State Tech Prep Advisory Council in addition to various other boards and committees supporting education and training activities.