Beahive Colony
Hive Executive Team
President (vacant)
Secretary
Colony Members
Najimah Roberson
Kim
Craig
Bea
Gallatin
MaDonna A. Awotwi
Taneisha Williams
Atiya Brown
CEO / FOUNDER
Samara Scott
Samara Scott, MHRM, SPHR
CEO / Founder
Beahive Housing Board Member
Samara Scott, Executive Director/Founder of Beahive Affordable Housing Outreach, Inc. has had businesses in Dauphin County beginning in 2005. Her passion for helping others pushed her to open a staffing agency in the city that she ran with her husband for almost 7 years helping countless residents.
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Samara currently works full-time as a Human Resources Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific and has been there for close to 3 years. She completed her studies at Penn State University with a bachelor's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and a master's degree from St. Francis University in Human Resources Management and Industrial Relations. She honed her skills over the years in various industries from education, healthcare, retail, and currently pharma manufacturing. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband, 3 adult children, and her cat.
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The vision for Beahive Affordable Housing Outreach, Inc. grew from Samara's personal experience, as well as watching what has become an affordable housing crisis over the last few years.
Jonathan Branam
Vice President
Beahive Housing Board Member
Jonathan Branham is an experienced Business Development Professional with a proven track record of building opportunities and maintaining strong relationships with new and existing national and international clients.
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​Jonathan has experience in the housing industry after being employed at PHFA. His background is in finance, he currently is the Funeral Home Manager for Hoopers Funeral Home which is a family-owned business.
Dennise Hill
Secretary
Beahive Housing Board Member
After graduating from Harrisburg High School and Harrisburg Area Community College, Mary worked for the Harrisburg Housing Authority and the City of Harrisburg’s Law Bureau. In 1990, she moved to Northern Virginia and began a 10-year career with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) who helped fund the launch of DIRECTV’s satellite.
She rose in the NRTC ranks to become Customer Service Manager of the membership group that provided satellite TV programming to rural America. Mary transitioned to Bell Atlantic – now called Verizon -- in the same capacity as they rolled out DIRECTV to their subscribers. She was awarded the Presidential Award for her dedication and commitment to service. Her interest in telecommunications led to working with VeriSign.
Ashley Smith
Treasurer
Beahive Housing Board Member
Ashley Smith is a mother of 2 amazing teenagers. By day she’s an Account Executive for an insurance company.
She's an entrepreneur, the event creator and host of Small Business Saturday HBG, a local monthly market that showcases Small Businesses. It has become a platform for new and established businesses, specifically those black and brown businesses who are not as frequently showcased. To date almost 500 businesses have participated.
She is passionate about serving the community. Fun fact, Ashley visits other cities often to specifically support black owned businesses and often volunteers at other community events. Small Business Saturday takes place at Italian Lake and other Central Pa locations.
