our founders
President
Charlene Turner Johnson serves as B.A.S.S., Inc.’s volunteer President & CEO. She has over 40 years of accomplishments leading neighborhood and faith-based community development organizations, Michigan Neighborhood Partnership, a Detroit city-wide intermediary, and the Michigan Nonprofit Association’s Metro Detroit office. She is an educator (M.Ed.) and an ordained minister (M.A.) by professional training. She has lived in Highland Park since 1954 and worked in the nonprofit and small business sectors of Highland Park since 2005.
Board chair
DeAndre Windom is the founding board chair of BASS Inc. He is a life-long Highland Parker, visionary, community activist, entrepreneur, mentor and philanthropist. He is a former Highland Park mayor, city councilman, and owner of HP Game, a clothing store that sells items that promote pride in Highland Park. He founded BASS initially to help young people escape drug abuse by creating rap music with positive messages. His vision has guided BASS through the years to its current holistic community economic development focus. Through his life’s work countless youth and adults have been empowered to improve the quality of their life through education, job training, employment, business ownership, community, cultural, and civic affairs. Beloved by many as "the Mayor who cares", he is a symbol of community and Parker Pride.