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 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 MoreSince relocating to Texas from Georgia in 2015, Ericka Blount has been actively involved in wine making, with a focus on Italian mead wines and use of local agriculture products. Her work with Blount Wine Therapy opens a new door for her to expand her passion of informing others about honey-based wines. Her goal for Blount Wine Therapy is to make wines that offers health benefits to enhance the social and emotional experience of each consumer.
Read MoreBritte Haugan Cheng, Ph.D., has been leading R&D in STEM instruction, learning technologies, and assessment for two decades. Applying this expertise, her work has focused on the development of innovative methods and infrastructure to address persistent problems in education, including serving as co-PI of the NSF project that conceptualized Design-based Implementation Research. At MenloEDU, she continues her work on STEM research projects coupled with strategic advising partnerships across research, funding, and policy communities.
Read MoreAasha’s work is guided by three questions: What’s being done? Is it working? And how can we make it work better? For over 15 years, she has been advising, designing, conducting, managing, and integrating robust research within and for organizations so that they can improve their processes, services, and products to meet their goals and make a positive difference in people’s lives.
Read MoreAcclaimed for her inventive take on modern soul food as well as comfort classics, Tanya Holland is the Executive Chef/Owner of the internationally renowned and beloved Brown Sugar Kitchen restaurant, located in Oakland, CA.
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