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

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Lauren Young

Executive-in-Residence

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Troy Wiggins

Director of Operations, HR & MarComm

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Maurisa Li-A-Ping

Chief of Staff

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Nikki Williams

Associate Director, Equity in Schools

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Shawn Gaines

Associate Director, Equity at Work

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Manny Godoy

Director, Curriculum & Training

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Maria Patrizia Santos

Associate Director of Research

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Lesley Brown Rawlings

Vice President, Strategy

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Kevin Lewis

Director, Education & Programming

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Dr. Nnenna Odim

Associate Director, Participatory Action Research

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Dr. Nicole Caridad Ralston

Executive-in-Residence

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Sarah Ball

Grants Administrator & Evaluation

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Stephanie Taylor

Chief Operating Officer

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Erica Freedman

Customer Happiness Manager

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Dr. Nicole Ford

Associate Director, PAR Houston

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Executives-in-Residence

Beloved Community's executives-in-residence support our mission by sharing their expertise and experience, providing guidance to our team, cultivating relationships with clients, and managing the development of our shared vision into practices that support our work.