Roland Selby- Year Up Changing Workforce Development

Mr. Selby is the Executive Director for Year Up Baltimore and Interim Executive Director for Year Up Greater Philadelphia, a national non profit organization that provides workforce development for young adults 18-24 years of age. A native of Baltimore and an alumni of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Morgan State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. Mr. Selby attended Howard University School of Divinity in pursuit of a Masters of Divinity degree. Recently, Mr. Selby completed the Georgetown University Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program in the Summer 2018 Cohort. Prior to joining Year Up, Mr. Selby was a senior manager consultant with IBM leading various business units and large programs such as the Quality Assurance team for the Express Scripts project and the Quality, Risk, Issue, and Delivery team for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Mr. Selby is a Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He has 20 years management experience with fortune 100 companies such as American Express, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Lockheed Martin. Mr. Selby is married to Lynn Selby and they have 3 teenage children (Jordan, Jessica, and Jaden). He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, and King David Lodge #18 of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of MD. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Howard E. Rollins Foundation and the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel. Mr. Selby is also an Alumnus of LEADERship Baltimore's 2017 Cohort.