ABOUT

Our Team

 

Pro-Black. Pro-Queer. Pro-Women.

We’re not just a Black-led, queer-led, woman-led nonprofit. The Black diaspora is baked into everything we do. We center Black freedom, Black joy, and Black liberation. We name the compounded impact of racism, homophobia, and transphobia on undocumented queer folx, on Black transwomen, on unhoused LGBTQIA+ youth, and gender-nonconforming loves. We name the ways that women are marginalized in work life, and design specific Beloved practices to center women, specifically women of color and queer women. 

 

The Trellis Model.

The Trellis is our management philosophy. We believe that, as part of the human condition, we are always learning and growing in different ways. We designed The Trellis because we want to be intentional about how our team members grow. In the Trellis, we name the competencies and ways of working that we value, and define the ways that we’ll support team members to further develop those competencies.

Rhonda J. Broussard

Founder & CEO

She/Her

Lauren Young

Senior Director, Data & Analysis

She/Her

Troy Wiggins

Director of Operations, HR & MarComm

He/Him

Maurisa Li-A-Ping

Chief of Staff

She/Her

Nikki Williams

Associate Director, Equity in Schools

She/Her

Shawn Gaines

Associate Director, Equity at Work

He/Him

Manny Godoy

Associate Director, Equity in Schools

He/Him

Maria Patrizia Santos

Associate Director of Research

She/Her

Lesley Brown Rawlings

Vice President, Strategy

She/Her

Kevin Lewis

Director, Curriculum & Training

He/Him

Dr. Nnenna Odim

Associate Director, Participatory Action Research

She/Her

Dr. Nicole Caridad Ralston

Senior Director, Education & Programming

She/Her

Sarah Ball

Grants Administrator

She/Her

Stephanie Taylor

Chief Operating Officer

She/Her

Erica Freedman

Customer Happiness Manager

She/Her

Nicole Ford

Associate Director, PAR Houston

She/Her

Executives in Residence

Ileana Ortiz

Associate Director, Equity at Work

They/Them

Shantell Lee

Associate Director, Equity in Schools

She/Her

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Dr. Michael Goetz

Board Member

He/Him

Dr. Sasha Rabkin

Board Member

He/Him

Massimiliano Gasparri

Product Manager

He/Him

Nicole Williams Beechum

IRB Committee Member

She/Her

Stanley Thangaraj

IRB Committee Member

He/Him

Henrika McCoy

IRB Committee Member

She/Her

Darren Isom

Board Member

He/Him

Jana Sikdar

Board Member

She/Her

Dr. Jonas Chartock

Facilitator

He/Him

Sandra Gutiérrez

Curriculum & Instruction Specialist

She/Her

Bryn Pernot

IRB Committee Member

She/Her

David J. Lewis

Onboarding & Training Design

He/Him

Margeaux Randolph

Product Manager

She/Her

Dr. June Christian

Global Inclusion Strategist

She/Her

Ana Aparicio

IRB Committee Chair

She/Her

Rashida Govan

IRB Committee Member

She/Her

Advisory Council

  • Kira Hudson Banks

    Mouse and Elephant

  • Matt Chingos

    Urban Institute

  • Tanya Clay House

    NEO

  • Joiselle Cunningham

    Pathways to Creative Industries

  • Aimee Eubanks Davis

    Braven

  • Krupa Desai

    Education Leaders of Color

  • Lisa Dorner

    University of Missouri

  • Heather Schwartz

    RAND Corporation

  • Derwin Sisnett

    Maslow Development

  • Phil Tegeler

    PRRAC

  • Tom Vander Ark

    Getting Smart

  • Mary Wells

    Bellwether Education Group

  • Kira Van Niel

    Boeing

  • Ellen Winn

    School System Leaders Fellowship

  • Kriste Dragon

    Pahara Institute

  • Rachel D'Souza-Siebert

    Gladiator Consulting

  • Elsa Duré

    Education Leaders of Color

  • Vanessa Foster-Cooksey

    Regional Arts Commission (RAC)

  • Antoinette Hayes-Triplett

    Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative

  • Christie Huck

    City Garden Montessori Charter School

  • Roxana Maiorescu

    Emerson College

  • Ian Rowe

    Vertex Partnership Academies

  • Carmita Semaan

    Surge Institute