Ellie brings nearly 30 years of professional and lived experience to her executive leadership of building and refining The Justice Collective’s consulting model, business and talent development, and organizational culture of a team of 20+ highly qualified consultants who have served over 130 clients since 2015. Ellie is a dynamic, in-demand strategist, coach, researcher, and community builder.
Read MoreCharmaine McClarie is a C-suite advisor, keynote speaker, executive coach and executive presence authority who helps leaders have their best year ever. She has worked with leaders in 27 industries across five continents. Her clients include top executives from Cisco, Gilead Sciences, Impact America Fund, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, MasterCard, Starbucks and T-Mobile.
Read MorePsychologist, advocate, and educator, Dr.Wendi Williams, applies her work at the intersection of education and psychology to her scholarship and leadership praxis.
Read MoreOlivia Christian has been working as a brand strategist for more than 15 years. Her clients include global brands like Google, Visa, and Amazon as well as nonprofit organizations providing life-advancing support to women, children, and vulnerable communities throughout the US.
Read MoreVaneese Johnson, The Boldness Coach™, is a certified executive coach, brand strategist, and award-winning small business consultant with more than 25 years of experience.
Read MoreMs. Phyllis Bowie is a native San Franciscan raised by her Black Panther single Mom in the 60s. As an officer in the Air Force, Ms. Phyllis rose to the rank of captain and earned a computer science degree. For the last 9 years she's produced an award-winning food show, Living with Phyllis.
Read MoreAfiya Shani (aka Fi.) is a creative impact producer and educator empowering and uplifting Black people and people of color through social impact initiatives.
Read MoreKathryn is a Fellow in the Education Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she supports both the efforts of the K-12 Teaching and Learning and Open Education strategies.
Read MoreMarthea Alley-Caliz has over twenty years of experience working with nonprofits, community, and government groups that provide critical community services. Currently, she works as a Program Contract Manager for Behavioral Health Care Services as the lead for language and culturally-specific services, and she previously worked for the Alameda County Probation Department running their data unit.
Read MoreMy name is Kia Walton, I was born in Los Angeles, CA. I grew up in Richmond, CA with my mom, sister, grandmother and grandfather from 1993-2008. I attended Mira Vista Elementary School and Adams' Middle School in Richmond, CA, and graduated from El Cerrito High School, in El Cerrito, CA. I graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies in 2008.
Read MoreI’m an eighth grade English Language Arts teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana and doctoral student at Xavier University of Louisiana. My scholarship focuses on the character traits of Black Women teachers and how our identities inform how we create platforms of transformation for the Black students we teach.
Read Moreson / brother / husband / father / neighbor / community member / student / teacher / destroyer / builder / growth / transformation
Read MoreAbram Jackson was born in Tucson, Arizona, however, was raised in the east bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. Abram studied managerial econ at UC Davis for undergrad and realized that his passion was more in the realm of ethnic studies. Abram has an MA in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and a MAT from the University of Southern California in social science education. The Bay School of San Francisco is where Abram currently teaches. He is a humanities instructor, in addition to the 11th-grade class dean. Abram also teaches adjunct at SFSU in their Race and Resistance Studies Department.
Read MoreJulius grew up in Los Angeles, California, and was raised by a family of educators. He is a fourth-generation teacher in his family. After graduating from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, he moved to the Bay Area to pursue his teaching career and graduate studies.
Read MoreT’Amentanefer Lumukanda Camara-(TaNefer) was born and raised in Oakland, California. As a wife and mother of three she juggles parenting and family with community activism and leadership. Tanefer is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), infant feeding specialist/educator, certified doula and maternal health equity strategist.
Read MoreI was raised by a single-mother who suffered from severe sickle-cell disease. Early on, I planned to make it to college and become a doctor to help people like my mom. My journey towards a STEM career was not unique which is why I thrive working in health workforce development today.
Read MoreRadiant Health Strategies, LLC is a privately owned holistic health educational business founded by Dr. Phyllis Hubbard. Having used holistic healing strategies to eliminate the medication for and completely heal herself of a supposedly incurable illness (COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Dr. Phyl now develops and provides health prevention and intervention programs that help correct and restore imbalances in the mind and body, without the use of medications, through the use of a synergistic blend of holistic healing modalities.
Read MoreMercedes Scott is a MD/MPH dual degree candidate. She is a medical school at UCLA in the Prime-LA and Charles Drew programs, and is currently receiving her masters in Public Health at UC Berkeley (UCB). Ms. Scott is passionate about working in underserved communities and specifically wants to improve the health of Black women.
Read MoreKimberly (Kim) Scott is a Registered Nurse from the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a double Masters degree in Nursing Administration and Business Administration from Holy Names University. She has been speaking professionally for more than a decade on the topics of nursing and health care professions, motivation, health & wellness, diversity & inclusion, and nursing leadership.
Read MoreDr. Freeman Garrick was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and attended medical school at the University of Southern California. She trained in Emergency Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program in New York, serving as chief resident during her final year in 2001.
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