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