Advisory Board
The people who help guide where The Harlem Angels goes next.
Lenise Joseph, M.A.Ed.
Educational Liaison & Outreach
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Lenise Joseph serves on the Board of Directors of The Harlem Angels as Educational Liaison, bringing a multidisciplinary background in education, theater, curriculum and instruction.
Lenise earned her Master of Arts in Education in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Arizona Global Campus, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, with a minor in Gender Studies, from Florida Gulf Coast University and a technical certificate in Associate Project Management from Seminole State College of Florida.
Her professional experience includes serving with the Tucson Unified School District, where she managed day-to-day operations in a K–8 school library, supported students, educators, and administrators, maintained educational resources and records, and developed systems to improve library operations. Her additional background encompasses stakeholder communication, research, documentation, customer support, and business process improvement.
As Educational Liaison for The Harlem Angels, Lenise brings an educator’s perspective to the entirety of the universe of The Harlem Angels, including the book series, TV scripts, and music videos rooted in the experiences of young people, schools, families, and communities. Her background in both theater and education allows her to approach The Harlem Angels from two complementary perspectives: the power of storytelling as an artistic medium and its potential to engage, challenge, and inspire audiences.
Lenise is also an alumna initiate and Life Loyal member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority through the Alpha Epsilon Chapter at the University of Arizona.
Jerold Franks
General Consigliere
Board of Directors
Jerold Franks, known to his friends as Jerry, serves on the Board of Directors of The Harlem Angels as General Consigliere. He is an independent casting director, lecturer, educator and actors’ advocate, and a former president of the Casting Society of America.
His casting credits include “Lost,” “Fame,” “Baghdad Café” and “Alice in Wonderland.” He served as Executive in Charge of Talent and Casting for 20th Century Fox Television, as Director of Talent and Casting for Columbia Pictures Television, and as Artistic Director at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera. His first solo casting assignment was the Emmy Award-winning series “Barney Miller.”
With his partner Al Onorato he was nominated three times for an Emmy for casting, and in 1989 he received the ARTIOS Award, the Casting Society of America’s highest honor, for “Baghdad Café.” He was honored with Awards of Excellence by the Southern California Motion Picture Council in 1995, 1997 and 2000, and received the 1999 Award of Excellence from the California Governor’s Committee for his work on “Kids Like These.” He went on to establish Jerold Franks Productions.
He holds a master’s degree in psychology, guidance and counseling from California State University, Northridge, and a master’s in marketing and public relations from UCLA. He lectured in theater arts from 1980 to 2002 at UCLA, USC, CSU Northridge, CSU Los Angeles, Cypress College and American University, and is the author of So You Wanna Be An Actor… Act Like One.
Further members will be introduced on this page.
The Harlem Angels is a growing property with books, music, video and screen development in progress, and it benefits from people who have done this kind of work before.
If you have experience in publishing, music, screen development or youth education and you would like to talk about the project, we would be glad to hear from you.
About the project
The Harlem Angels, LLC is a subsidiary of Green Key Management, LLC. The story, the characters and the music are all original work created for the series.
