Founder and CEOYouth Design Center Quardean Lewis-Allen is the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit youth creative agency and innovation hub, Youth Design Center, which provides a gateway for young people in his native Brownsville community to access education, technology, and mentorship to tackle underrepresentation in STEAM professions and cyclical poverty, as well as to …
CEO and Founder HBCUvc Hadiyah Mujhid is the CEO and Founder of HBCUvc, a nonprofit that is dedicated to changing how investment capital is formed and allocated to benefit historically underestimated groups. She has experience as both a tech founder and software engineer and is obsessed with leveraging technology entrepreneurship for economic inclusion. She is …
Executive Director and Founder Essie Justice Group Gina Clayton-Johnson is the Executive Director of Essie Justice Group, which she founded (named after her great grandmother Essie Bailey) in 2014 to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration’s harm to women and communities.Gina has spent more than a decade …
Co-Founder and Co-Director Movement for Family Power Erin Miles Cloud is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Movement for Family Power, an organization that works to end the Foster System’s policing and punishment of families and to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported. For nearly a decade …
Creator and Founder Rhymes with Reason (RwR) San Diego (CA) native Austin Martin is the creator and founder of Rhymes with Reason (RwR), an e-learning resource that helps students learn words and boost reading skills via hip-hop & popular music.In 2014, at Brown University, Martin founded Rhymes with Reason after he discovered that 67 of …
Co-founder and Executive Director R.A.G.E. Asiaha Butler is a longtime resident of Greater Englewood and is determined to uplift, inspire and change the perception of her neighborhood, which is often seen as a death trap. Butler has served on various boards and councils to ensure residents have a voice to address issues that face …