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Charmaine 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.
Psychologist, advocate, and educator, Dr.Wendi Williams, applies her work at the intersection of education and psychology to her scholarship and leadership praxis.
Olivia 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.
Vaneese Johnson, The Boldness Coach™, is a certified executive coach, brand strategist, and award-winning small business consultant with more than 25 years of experience.
Kathryn 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.
Belinda Bellinger is jubilant about youth empowerment, education equity, grassroots community organizing, spoken word/performance theater, and transformational healing work. For more than 15 years, she has created instructional spaces where students (and adults) are seen, heard, and encouraged to be their authentic self and empowered to enact liberatory social change. She received her Bachelors of Art in Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College and is currently the 7th-grade History teacher at Summit: Tamalpais in Richmond, CA. When she is not facilitating a classroom with her wit, she enjoys writing creative non-fiction, cooking, and fellowship with chosen family. Find her on Instagram @alovesupreme420.
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Mable Haddock has spent the past four decades advocating for and supporting social issue media and media makers of color. In her role as Founding Director of The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC, 1980-2005), Ms. Haddock was instrumental in developing and producing several award-winning programs for the public television schedule including Matters of race, unnatural causes, Mandela, the Fannie Lou Hamer story, and the state of black America, I and II. Through the NBPC RFP and Discretionary fund, Ms. Haddock provided development and production funding to hundreds of producers whose work subsequently aired on PBS. After retiring from NBPC in 2005 after 25 years, Ms. Haddock helped to develop and implement the Firelight Producers Lab, which provides professional development, mentoring, and support to help producers of color complete documentaries.
Ms. Haddock has served on the board of the Columbus Cable Advisory Board, the Pittsburgh and Columbus Public Access Boards, the PBS Programming Board, the CPB Multi-cultural advisory board, and the Ohio Arts Council multicultural advisory board. She has served as a panelist/reader for ITVS, POV, NEH, NEA, The Ohio Arts Council (3 year appointment), The Jerome Foundation (3 year appointment) and is an emeritus board member of NBPC. She has written and lectured nationally and internationally on the aesthetics, politics and role of black film. Awards include The Founders Awards from the Black Women’s Preservation Project, three CEBA Awards, the Leo Award from the Flaherty International Film Seminars, a New York Women in Film Award, Women of Achievement Award from the Columbus YWCA, a Trailblazer Award from Blackfilm.com, and a leadership award from NAMAC.
Industry: Public Media
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Dr. Nicole Norfles facilitates Council for Opportunity in Education’s (COE) STEM Community of Practice; is co-Principal Investigator on multiple National Science Foundation grants; directs and coordinates multiple U.S. Department of Education grants; and directs COE’s Onboarding Professional Development and TRIO Chicago Collaborative.
She previously served as Education Program Officer with the Oprah Winfrey Foundation; Policy Consultant with Casey Family Programs; Special Assistant to the founding President of COE; and Fellow at the Pell Institute. She co-taught a Michigan State University South Africa study abroad course; a Drexel University online leadership course; and George Washington University courses in educational foundations, leadership, and supervision.
Dr. Norfles presents at numerous national and international conferences, and serves on multiple boards; she received her doctorate from The George Washington University.
She previously served as Education Program Officer with the Oprah Winfrey Foundation; Policy Consultant with Casey Family Programs; Special Assistant to the founding President of COE; and Fellow at the Pell Institute. She co-taught a Michigan State University South Africa study abroad course; a Drexel University online leadership course; and George Washington University courses in educational foundations, leadership, and supervision.
Dr. Norfles presents at numerous national and international conferences, and serves on multiple boards; she received her doctorate from The George Washington University.
Regina Jackson has made it her mission to invest in the future of children. She has taken on the challenge of molding, and mentoring young people in her hometown of Oakland, CA. Regina believes her biggest challenge is combating hopelessness. When young people don’t have high expectations, they often won’t try. Because she and her staff believe that youth can perform at high levels, they often rise to meet and exceed those expectations.
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Location: Oakland, California
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.