Our People
Founder of The Liberty Family Foundation, ("LFF")

Michael A. Liberty- Founder   www.michaelaliberty.com


Immediate Family Participants

Adriana M. Liberty- East Coast Executive Director LFF, is a philanthropist and equestrienne, currently studies Leadership and Spanish at Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Prior to Peace College, Adriana earned her high school diploma from Cheverus Jesuit Preparatory High School in Portland, Maine in 2007. Adriana has devoted much of her life to her equestrienne career and as a result, has achieved multiple regional, national and world championship titles with Morgan show horses since 2002. Adriana first began her volunteer work at Redbank Child Development Center in South Portland, Maine, as a helper in the toddler room. Adriana continued her volunteer work while in college at the Rosa Parks Center in Fulton Missouri, home of youth female correctional offenders; where she mentored two of their residents. After her work in Missouri, she traveled to Ethiopia for a five- week volunteer term with Projects Abroad. During her stay in Ethiopia she worked at the Enat Alem Orphanage in Addis Ababa where she aided in the general care of the children and read children’s books to the older children in English.  

George Liberty, Program Director

Maxwell Liberty, Program Director


Extended Family Participants

April Marie Liberty- President of LFF, is a violinist and violist, who earned her Bachelors in Music degree in viola performance in 2009 from a full-merit scholarship at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Prior to college, April graduated from high school in 2005 from the nationally recognized Walnut Hill High School for the Performing Arts with a focus on both musical theater and music performance. As a young musician, April studied at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston, MA from 1995-2005. Over the years, April has performed with many famous musicians, toured with orchestras to France, Italy and Spain, played numerous times with the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Frost Symphony Orchestra, Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra and continues to perform all throughout the South Florida area. April is currently the Young Musicians’ Junior and Intermediate Orchestra conductor and private instructor within the CGCC Community Arts Program Conservatory for the Arts, teaches group violin classes at Henry West Lab Elementary School grades K-3, the FYO S.T.E.P.S program at Hialeah Gardens Elementary School grades 3-5 and private violin lessons at P.A.C.E. Miami Homeschooling Enrichment program. As well as teaching in the above programs, April is also a private violin and viola teacher serving many students throughout the Miami area. 
Aside from her musical endeavors, April is President of Liberty Business Consulting, LLC, doing business as Three Brothers Paint & Body Shop.

Richard A. Liberty- Secretary of LFF, graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in accounting/corporate finance. Mr. Liberty has been an award winning investment professional of over thirty-three years. During the past fourteen years Mr. Liberty owned and operated his own investment advisory firm. Prior to that he was a branch manager of a Wall Street securities firm and an accountant for the international accounting firm Cooper & Lybrand. Mr. Liberty also co-founded an internationally marketed energy drink where he assisted in formula development, packaging and marketing strategies.
Mr. Liberty has been a Trustee and or Director of several charitable entities and organizations and has been head chaperon for New England Conservatory's ("NEC") international orchestral performance tour of Spain and chaperone of many other NEC performance tours including Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela.  

Dr. Stan Liberty- Director of LFF, is President of Kettering University of Flint, MI. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Liberty came to Kettering in 2005 from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he had served seven and one-half years as provost and vice-president for academic affairs. While at Bradley he was a member of the Board of the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce (PACC), chaired the PACC Transportation Committee, was a member of the PACC Business Advisory Committee, and served on the Peoria Civic Federation Transportation Committee. He also chaired the Research, Education and Innovation Team of Peoria NEXT, a science and technology based economic development initiative, and he was a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Peoria Area World Affairs Council. Before joining Bradley, he served as dean of engineering for 13-1/2 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as that university’s interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. He was the Nebraska representative on the Science and Technology Council of the States, a working group of the National Governor’s Association, and he advised Governors Orr and Nelson on science and technology matters. In 1995 he worked at Transcrypt International, a manufacturer of secure communications products, in a part-time position as director of advanced research and planning. He has also served as a director of two small corporations. He also served as department chair of electrical engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and as a faculty member at Texas Tech University, where he was founding director of Texas Tech's center for energy research, an associate dean of graduate studies, and a member of the Texas Energy Advisory Council. Prior to his academic career he was employed as a design engineer by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Dr. Liberty’s research has been supported by grants from several federal agencies including NSF, NASA and the Office of Naval Research. In 1976 he was named the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor in the United States by Eta Kappa Nu, and he is a 2005 recipient of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering Honor Award for “significant contributions to the advancement of engineering, or meritorious achievements in engineering.” Presently Dr. Liberty is a member of the Strategic Board of the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce and he serves on the Boards of: Kettering University; PalNet (a Flint area higher educational library consortium); the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Michigan, Michigan Virtual University, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, and the Tri-County Venture Capital Fund, LLC. 


Liberty Family Foundation ("LFF"), Officers 

Alan Theriault- Treasurer of LFF, is President of CU Financial Services a consultant to the credit union industry. Mr. Theriault is editor of the 200 page: "Conversion Guide - The Cooperative Banking Charter". M. Theriault’s executive background includes positions with a major Wall Street investment firm, as president of a mutual savings bank, as founder and senior executive of a mortgage banking and business-lending firm, and as founder and executive of a National Association of Securities Dealer (N.A.S.D.) Member firm.  

Directors

 George J. Marcus, Esq.- is the senior member of the Maine law firm, Marcus, Clegg & Mistretta P.A. George is well known throughout the northeast, and is widely recognized as the "go to" lawyer in Maine for difficult corporate and commercial situations. George has handled such diverse matters as representing a publicly held, Maine based, debtor in Chapter 11 proceedings in the District of Maine, representing Chapter 11 debtors who were integrated, state of the art, pulp and paper manufacturers, reorganizing and restructuring the ownership interests in a nuclear power facility, structuring the out-of-court liquidation of one of Maine's largest real estate companies, and, recently, representing Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company in the Delaware based Chapter 11 proceedings of Stone & Webster, Inc., regarding a $250,000,000 decommissioning contract between Maine Yankee and Stone & Webster. In the mid-1990's, George served as counsel to the Creditors' Committee in one of the then-largest Chapter 11 cases in the country, Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This year, the Maine Bankruptcy Court awarded George and the firm an accomplishment bonus for their work as counsel for the Creditors’ Committee in the Jackson Brook Institute Chapter 11 case. The Court recognized the firm’s extraordinary role in achieving a 100% dividend for creditors in a highly troubled case. Today, George is involved on behalf of diverse interests in a number of substantial bankruptcy cases pending in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, the District of Delaware and elsewhere, and serves as national bankruptcy counsel for a publicly held company headquartered in Maine. George is a 1976 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, is rated "AV" by Martindale Hubbell, and has been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America. In February of 2005, Chambers and Partners, a prestigious London firm that publishes global legal guides, announced that it would include George as a Leader in [His] Field in their new Bankruptcy Guide.  

Kevin J. McCarthy - is the Corporate General Counsel to The Liberty Group. Kevin received his BA from Bowdoin College in 1976 and his JD from Pace University in 1980 where he was an Editor of the Law Review. Kevin has been elected to the Falmouth (Maine) Town council and served as its Chairman. He has also been appointed to the Falmouth, Maine Zoning Board of Appeals and served as its Chairman. Kevin has also served as a Director and Chairman of the Board of Associated Grocers of Maine as well as Trustee and President of the Woodlands Club in Falmouth, Maine.