Board of Directors
Brett McAllister Tyler
Brett M. Tyler is a veteran of more than 30 years in the transportation industry. A graduate of Morgan State University and the British Transport Staff College, he began his career with C&O/B&O Railroads (now CSX) in Baltimore, Maryland where he developed marketing plans to increase the railroad’s steel shipments. Currently, responsible for corporate and retail sales programs for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Mr. Tyler’s responsibilities also include expanding transportation and non-transportation uses of WMATA’s SmarTrip® Card technology. Mr. Tyler was with the New York City Transit Authority and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) prior to joining WMATA and was instrumental in the formulation of customer service, sales and marketing policies and programs at both organizations. He also negotiated the agreement, which gave travel agents automated access to Amtrak’s train inventory through the airlines’ reservation systems. Married with one adult son, Mr. Tyler is active in his community including membership on the Board of Directors of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, The DC Chapter of Keep America Beautiful, the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County, VA, and the Business Round Table of Montgomery County, MD. He is also an active member of the American Passenger Transportation Association (APTA). A veteran researcher with over 30 years of genealogical research, including extensive research in Albemarle, Amherst, Fauquier and Orange Counties, Virginia, Mr. Tyler also serves as president of Heritage Associates, a firm that conducts genealogical research and informational seminars.
Angela Hughes Davidson
Angela received her undergraduate degree from Howard University and her M. A. in Counseling from the University of the District of Columbia. Her work experience includes many years in health care delivery systems. In January, 2013, she retired from Kaiser Permanente. In August 2013, she moved from Washington DC. and returned to Marshall in Fauquier County – where members of her family have lived for eight generations. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AAHA and participates regularly in the organization’s activities. In the past and for several years, Angela served as a volunteer teacher and board member for the Takoma Community and the NBC Lab schools in Washington, D.C., before and after school educational settings designed for children aged 3-12.
Donna Tyler Hollie
A native Baltimorean, and a retired administrator with that city’s Department of Social Services, Dr. Donna Hollie is an Adjunct Professor at Sojourner-Douglass College. She has researched her family history (the Blackwell’s, Chapman’s, Tyler’s, and Washington’s) for more than twenty-two years and has documented her Fauquier roots to approximately 1788. As a result of her interest in genealogy, she returned to Morgan State University to formally study history and was awarded An M. A. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 2000. She has contributed articles to a variety of historical and genealogical journals, has two entries in the Black Women in American: An Historical Encyclopedia and is currently researching for publication, “African American Women in Radio” and “A History of the African American Community of Sparrows Point, Maryland.” With her brother, she is co-founder of HERITAGE ASSOCIATES, an association dedicated to the research, preservation, and celebration of African American history and culture.