Our Team
Our Founder & CEO
Cherisna Jean-Marie, M.DIV.
Faith Leader | Community Organizer | Anti-Racist Activist
Our Founding Board Members
Rev. Dr. Brandon Blake
- Senior Pastor
- New Sunny Mount Baptist Church - St. Louis, MO
Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas
- E. Rhodes Professor of Ethics and Society
- Vanderbilt Divinity School - Nashville, TN
Dr. Shauna Flemming
- Health Scientist
- Washington, DC
Dr. Dante Bryant
- Assistant Professor of Social Work, Affiliated Faculty Race & Social Equity Academy
- UNC Charlotte / College of Health and Human Services - Charlotte, NC
Cemerè James
- Racial Equity and Child Advocate
- Children's Defense Fund - Washington, DC
Attorney Jay Cliffton
- Attorney & Entrepreneur
- The Law Office of Jay Clifton - Nashville, TN
Our Advisors
Pat Clark
- Chief Program Officer for the Fund for Nonviolence (FNV)
- Fund for Nonviolence - Austin, TX
Rev. Dr. John Welch
- Chair, Board of Directors | Gamaliel Network
- Pittsburg, PA
Andrea Barbour
- Public Planner
- Nashville, TN
Arlene Avakian
- Professor Emeritus Women Studies
- New Hemisphere, NE