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
Senior Director, Data & Analysis
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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
Associate Director, Equity in Schools
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Maria Patrizia Santos
Associate Director of Research
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Carla Melaco
Director of Equity Tools & Programming
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Lesley Brown Rawlings
Vice President, Strategy
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Ashley J. Funk
Director, Business Development
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Erica Badowski
Associate Director, Adult Learning
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Dr. Britany J. Gatewood
Senior Research Coordinator
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Malena Data Ernani
Associate Director, Business Development
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Kevin Lewis
Director, Curriculum & Training
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Dr. Nnenna Odim
Associate Director, Participatory Action Research
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Dr. Nicole Caridad Ralston
Senior Director, Education & Programming
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Sarah Ball
Grants Administrator
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Stephanie Taylor
Chief Operating Officer
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Erica Freedman
Customer Happiness Manager
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Nicole Ford
Associate Director, PAR Houston
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Ileana Ortiz
Associate Director, Equity at Work
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Shantell Lee
Associate Director, Equity in Schools
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Jana Sikdar
Board Member
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Dr. Jonas Chartock
Facilitator
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David J. Lewis
Onboarding & Training Design
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Nicole Williams Beechum
IRB Committee Member
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Stanley Thangaraj
IRB Committee Member
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Darren Isom
Board Member
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Margeaux Randolph
Product Manager
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Sandra Gutiérrez
Curriculum & Instruction Specialist
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Bryn Pernot
IRB Committee Member
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Rashida Govan
IRB Committee Member
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Dr. Michael Goetz
Board Member
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Massimiliano Gasparri
Product Manager
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Dr. June Christian
Global Inclusion Strategist
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Ana Aparicio
IRB Committee Chair
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Henrika McCoy
IRB Committee Member
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Advisory Council
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Kira Hudson Banks
Mouse and Elephant
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Matt Chingos
Urban Institute
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Tanya Clay House
NEO
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Joiselle Cunningham
Pathways to Creative Industries
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Aimee Eubanks Davis
Braven
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Krupa Desai
Education Leaders of Color
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Lisa Dorner
University of Missouri
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Heather Schwartz
RAND Corporation
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Derwin Sisnett
Maslow Development
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Phil Tegeler
PRRAC
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Tom Vander Ark
Getting Smart
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Mary Wells
Bellwether Education Group
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Kira Van Niel
Boeing
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Ellen Winn
School System Leaders Fellowship
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Kriste Dragon
Pahara Institute
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Rachel D'Souza-Siebert
Gladiator Consulting
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Elsa Duré
Education Leaders of Color
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Vanessa Foster-Cooksey
Regional Arts Commission (RAC)
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Antoinette Hayes-Triplett
Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative
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Christie Huck
City Garden Montessori Charter School
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Roxana Maiorescu
Emerson College
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Ian Rowe
Vertex Partnership Academies
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Carmita Semaan
Surge Institute