About Me
Affectionately known as “Mrs. Aâ€, Adrienne is the Owner/Executive Director of Studio “A†Modeling, Etiquette and Dance Academy in Randallstown, MD. She earned her Bachelors Degree at Hampton University and has done graduate work in the Masters of Divinity Program at Howard University. She is a wife and mother as well as a dancer, actress, teacher, model, life coach, personal/professional development trainer, and national motivational speaker, speaking in more than 100 cities across the country and 30 of the 50 states. Prior to opening her modeling, etiquette and dance academy, she was the National Director of the NAACP’s Back-To-School/Stay-In-School Program, a position she held for 4 years. She was appointed to this position by Kweisi Mfume, one of my mentors and dear friends.
She has recieved many awards and citations for her work with youth, women and under served populations. Most recently, she was a recipient of the 2006 Fullwood Foundation’s Valued Hours Award (2006) and The Educaters In the Community (EduSerc) Award (2007) for the countless number of hours that she has spent teaching, coaching, training, mentoring, and motivating youth. She was also voted Mrs. Congeniality by the other 53 delegates at the 2006 Mrs. United States Pageant(She was Mrs. Maryland United Staes 2006). Her many accomplishments have lead to her being featured in several news publications and television shows both locally and nationally. She has appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, Cafe B-more, Grace and Glory at Midnight, Maryland Public Television, 2 The Point, and Baltimore 2night to name a few. The Carvers Family was featured on the show "Home Made Simple" on The TLC network. She has also been featured in articles in The Sun Paper, The Waterloo United Communicator (Iowa), The Baltimore Times, The Baltimore County Times, The Owings Mills Times, The Woodlawn Villager, What’s the 410 Magazine and Name it Magazine!
Her passion lies with the development of America’s youth. She has taught dance for the Baltimore County Public School Systems Magnet Dance Program, Baltimore City College High School (Band), Milford Mill Academy (Band), and Woodlawn High School (Band). In 2000 she opened Studio “A†Modeling, Etiquette, and Dance Academy, a place committed to developing character, confidence, charm and charisma in every student. In addition to training tomorrow’s models and dancers, Studio “A†is Baltimore’s premier training center for the next generation of professionals prepared to compete with the world’s best and brightest! Her program specializes in self esteem building, goal setting, career planning, strengthening public speaking skills, and developing a commitment to academic excellence within each student. In 2005, she establish the Studio A Foundation and the Scholarship Cotillion Program. Over the past two years, the program, which offers a nine week personal/professional development seminar series to juniors and seniors in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area and culminates with an Awards Gala, has awarded more than $30,000 in scholarships to deserving juniors and seniors. She is an actress with Bill Grammet of Washington DC, a principal dancer with the Sisterly Grace Dance Company and the Studio A Dance Company, a former professional cheerleader for the NFL Baltimore Ravens and a professional model with Nova Modeling Agency. She is also a highly sought after pageant coach with an uncanny ability to help young girls build confidence with grace, poise, articulate speech and a polished finish. Many of my clients have won scholarship pageants at both the local and national levels.
Married to the love of her life, former high school chemistry teacher, now full time Comedian/Actor Stacey Carver, she especially enjoys the roles of wife and mother. She has three amazing children ages 7, 6, and 4. Her husband is her biggest fan ond was the one to encourage her to leave her job and commit her talents to her business full time. She gives God all of the glory for her many gifts and talents and her prayer is that when others see her, that they would give God the glory for the great things He has done both in her and through her.
