Experience

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  Emerging Equity, LLC

  • CEO and Manager

    • Jan 2023 - Present

    Emerging Equity is a consulting firm who’s mission is to build transformational cultures in groups, institutions and systems using a human-centered equity development process. Through social equity, organizational development and leadership development, Emerging Equity cultivates communities and ...

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  biwa|Emergent Equity

  • Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    • Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Founding Partner

    • Jan 2020 - Sep 2022

    KEY GOAL: TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE GROWTH STRATEGY FOR EXPANDING B|EE’S REACH IN CULTIVATING INNOVATIVE CULTURE CHANGE FRAMEWORKS ACROSS SYSTEMS, INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS ALONG A LOCAL TO INTERNATIONAL PIPELINE.• Developed a State Wide level strategy for cultivating equity skillsets across 53 partners in a network. • Forged long-term relationships with philanthropic institutions in strategizing culture change within the philanthropic sector. • Branched into international organizational development work.• Developed new financial investment partnerships through reparations mechanisms.• Built internal systems and infrastructure for the company.

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  Emergent Equity

  • Chapel Hill, NC

  • Founder, Racial Equity and Organizational Development Consultant

    • Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
    • Chapel Hill, NC

    Supported local organizations in developing internal racial intelligence, equitable practices and authentic relationship building through training, coaching, consulting, collaborative investigation, technical support and iterative strategic road-mapping.

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  P2L: Mental Health, Mentoring, and Enrichment Services

  • United States
  • Mental Health Care
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Director of Programming

    • Feb 2016 - Dec 2016

    • Manage $1.2M in grants serving Title 1 schools in the NYC Community Schools Initiative. • Oversee program development. • Develop and manage operational systems.• Liaison with NYC agencies.• Coach and develop staff capacities to lead strategic initiatives.• Coach and consult clients on youth development, relationship building, self-awareness and racial consciousness. Select Accomplishments:• Initiated and directed focus groups to assess program design and implementation. • Evaluated the Stop Observe Analysis and Respond (SOAR) training program, which lead to the creation of a valid survey instrument for measuring emotional quotient of teachers and students. • Wrote and received a $30,000 Sustain It grant o Programmed, staffed and implemented the full scope of services. • Cultivated an outside donor, resulting in a $150,000 donation divided over three years. • Lead and coordinated a week-long gaming industry research trip to Los Angeles for high school students resulting in the expansion of the gaming initiative and access to opportunities for underrepresented students. • Recognized by The Center for Community Schools, the Office of Community Schools and by other Community School partners as a thought leader. • Facilitated professional development that has enhanced the way our client schools approach engagement with students.

  • Program Manager

    • Sep 2015 - Feb 2016

  • Program Support Specialist

    • Nov 2014 - Sep 2015

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  Arts-Education Exchange: Cuba

  • International

  • Co-Creator and Manager

    • Jul 2013 - Jul 2015
    • International

    • Co-created a collective of 25 Cuban and US artists, educators and organizers to develop a 10 day training program in the areas of youth engagement, program and financial sustainability, fiction writing, Theater of the Oppressed processes, curriculum writing, education in Cuba and the US, and so...

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  The Leadership Program

  • United States
  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Program Support Specialist

    • Sep 2013 - Nov 2014

  • Site Coordinator

    • Sep 2011 - Sep 2013

  • Teaching Artist

    • Aug 2008 - Sep 2011