Elise Elizondo, a proud Afro-Cubana, was born and raised in South Florida in a bilingual household. Elise describes herself as diverse, open-minded, creative and altruistic.
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CBCF leadership, staff, board, and council members.
Kaylin Henderson
Kaylin Henderson is a dedicated and accomplished social policy professional, focusing on how to mitigate the processes which produce inequality at an institutional level.
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Nicholas Stewart, an emerging leader in environmental justice, reparative planning, and community advocacy, was raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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Folashade Wilson has dedicated her academic and professional career to using intersectional social justice frameworks to advance policies that improve the health of systematically marginalized populations.
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Olivia Yansaneh is from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, born and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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Ashley Hodo, a native of Griffin, Georgia, is a passionate advocate for generational wealth building and economic mobility.
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Dr. Uché Blackstock is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, appears regularly on MSNBC and NBC News, and is a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine.
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Darrell Booker is a dynamic leader at Microsoft’s Philanthropy division, renowned for spearheading one of the company’s pivotal initiatives: the Nonprofit Tech Acceleration for Black and African American Communities.
Read MoreDr. Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Co-founder and Executive Director of AAPF and Faculty Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS) is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law.
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