Our Team

Core Team

Afua Addo

Deputy Director of Programs and Training

Dr. Sandra (“Chap”) Chapman

Deputy Director of Programs and Curriculum

Zalika Coleman

Administrative Manager

Rachel D. Godsil

Co-Founder and Co-Director

Jason Craige Harris

Senior Advisor

Fahima Islam

Director of Assessment and Research

Jakita Miller

Director of Operations

john a. powell

Board Chair

Aya Taveras

Director of Story and Representation

Rebecca Willett

Deputy Director of Programs and Operations

Perception Partners

Anurima Bhargava

President, Anthem of Us

Richard Buery

Public Service Fellow, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Yasmin Cader

Founder, Cader Adams Trial Lawyers

Devon Carbado

Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law

Anjali Chen

Senior Consultant, Catalyst Collaboratives, LLC

Sheila Foster

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown

Yolonda P. Harrison

Founder and CEO of YPH Consulting LLC

Dushaw Hockett

Founder and Executive Director, Safe Places for the Advancement of Community and Equity

Jerry Kang

Perception Partner

Leah Landerman

Project Manager

Jessica MacFarlane

Race Equity Consultant and Facilitator

Zipporiah (Zipp) Mills

Facilitator & Content Developer at the Center on Culture, Race & Equity at Bank Street School of Education

Shantel Palacio

Education Policy Analyst, DE&I Consultant, Founder of Brownsvillain LLC

Rachel Perry