Vice President
Elbert L. Avery has spent most of his Life in the state of North Carolina; however, as a son of a military family, has also lived years in Omaha, Nebraska; Fairbanks, Alaska; Fairfield, Rapid City, South Dakota; Fairfield, California, Anchorage, Alaska, and Fayetteville, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Analysis and followed up with a Master of Business Administration degree, double majoring in Marketing and International Business.
Elbert worked thirty years in the private sector for IBM. Currently he works as the Business Services Manager in a Finance function for the City of Durham’s Community Development.
He currently serves on the boards of Cary Academy, Self Help Ventures Fund, and is a member of the Kappas of Durham Foundation. Elbert is also a member of Saint Joseph AME Church in Durham, North Carolina. He is also a former board member and is a Life Member of the General Alumni Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Elbert is both a current board member and Founding Member of the Light on the Hill Society Scholarship.
With respect to Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, Elbert is a 1979 initiate of the Theta Omicron Chapter. He served eight years as an Alumni Board Member of the Middle Eastern Province. Elbert is a former Kappa Man of the Year for the Durham Alumni Chapter and has been the Chair of the Little Brothers Program at R.N. Harris Elementary School. He is a Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated.
Elbert and his wife Katrina have one son, Jonathan. The empty nesters currently reside in Durham, North Carolina.