Jade Solutions, LLC Principal Appointed to Montgomery County Remembrance and Reconciliation Commission

Germantown, MD, December 16, 2019– On Tuesday, December 10 the Montgomery County Council confirmed Jade Solutions Principal Tina Patterson’s appointment to the County’s Remembrance and Reconciliation Commission. The commission will support community efforts to work with the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to recognize the victims of lynchings in Montgomery County and help the community understand and take steps to address its own history.

Ms. Patterson will represent The Montgomery County Planning Board, part of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Patterson will serve a three-year term as a non-voting ex officio member appointed by the County Executive after consulting with the Office of Human Rights.

“I’m honored to be appointed to this most esteemed commission,” said Patterson. “It is our duty and responsibility to remember and make amends for the past so that we can move forward as one community.”

About Montgomery County’s Remembrance and Reconciliation Commission
The Remembrance and Reconciliation Commission was formed on January 29, 2019 with a resolution by Councilmembers Will Jawando, Craig Rice and Hans Riemer. The commission was established to support the goal of bringing the county together to promote a better understanding of our history. The commission will work with the national EJI and other stakeholders to claim and install the county’s monument commemorating three locations in Montgomery County where lynchings have been documented. The commission will also be responsible for creating and installing historical markers, collecting and displaying soil from each of the locations, and also will design programs to advance the dialogue that the monuments, historical markers and soil should foster.

About Jade Solutions, LLCJade Solutions, LLC leverages more than 20 years’ experience to provide management consulting services in the areas of proposal and grants management support, Alternative Dispute Resolution and community engagement support, as well as project management and training services to a wide range of clients. Jade Solutions has delivered workshops to businesses on behalf of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), Montgomery County Chamber Veteran Institute for Procurement (VIP), Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) Business Development Accelerator Program (BDAP), Maryland Governor's Office of Small, Minority & Women Business Affairs. Jade Solutions is a  2019 Top100 MBE Award recipient.

Jade Solutions Principal, Ms. Tina Patterson, is a current member of the Montgomery County Planning Board and previously served as a member of the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission. For more than two decades, has been involved in advocacy, education and outreach on issues dealing with human and women’s rights. She has been a speaker and guest lecturer on various topics, including human trafficking, minority leadership, landmine removal and mediation She has been featured in several publications including the Association for Conflict Resolution‘s ACResolution magazine, the U.S. Geospatial Foundation's Trajectory magazine, as well as the George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership newsletter.
 
Jade Solutions is woman-owned, MBE/DBE/SBE, SWaM, WOSB and WBE certified.