SOUTHERN EQUITY COLLECTIVE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• BUSINESS MANAGER
• Strategist

Apphia is a respected strategist, executive, and former Naval Officer with 10+ years of experience in healthcare, technology, and military operations. As Chief Operations Officer of the Southern Equity Collective, she leads the design, execution, and continual improvement of equitable, growth-oriented policies and processes so that SEq is consistently modeling effective, anti-racist business practices. A results-driven, innovative, and strategic professional with an equal passion for equity and efficacy, Apphia's work is grounded in the concept of servant leadership. She specializes in cultivating and elevating the talents of those around her, with an eye towards fostering diverse, cohesive teams that deliver excellence at every turn.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member / Audrey KS

Lane is a respected facilitator and consultant with 20 years' experience in talent pipeline development, leadership development, strategy, and project management. Previously, Audrey led racial equity initiatives at the South Carolina Public Charter School District and Charleston County School District.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Coach
• Executive

Caroline Mauldin is an executive coach, facilitator, and organizational consultant helping clients find their way through complex dynamics and complicated narratives. As an advisor to senior leaders and teams across corporate and social impact sectors, her consulting practice is grounded in empathy, inclusion, and efficiency. In addition to her work with SEq, Caroline leads Happy & Bennett, a boutique consultancy specializing in strategy and communications. Her past experience includes leading a statewide foundation for public education, serving as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of State under President Barack Obama, co-founding four social impact organizations, and advancing impact investing and financial inclusion initiatives at Accion International and the Omidyar Network. Caroline holds a MBA from MIT Sloan and a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a fellow with the Center for Public Leadership and studied systemic racism and social justice under Dr. William Julius Wilson and Dr. Ron Ferguson, among others. Based in Atlanta, her work has appeared in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Economist, CNN.com, The USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Post & Courier, and The State Newspaper. Caroline currently chairs the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy of South Carolina. Subscribe to her monthly reflections on being human at work here.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder

Born and raised in Nashville Tennessee, Caroline Randall Williams is an award-winning author, activist, public intellectual, performance artist, and scholar focused on the language we use to untangle and unlearn America's racist past and present.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member
• Founder of Panorama Advisors

A native of Birmingham, AL, David is the Founder of Panorama Advisors where he supports clients to build equity-centered teams, create strategies that work, and bring those strategies to life. He has worked foirst hand in the non-profit, corporate, philanthropy, and public education sectors, and brings an understanding of the complexities of social change.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Creative Strategist

Jonas Chartock is a creative strategist, social entrepreneur, and educator with a demonstrated history of impact in the nonprofit and government sectors. With a specific career focus on adult professional learning, he has spent the majority of his coaching and facilitating time on advancing leaders' awareness and resulting actions regarding issues of organizational growth as well as race, power, and privilege. A student of anti-racist practice, Jonas has learned from the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond "Undoing Racism," Beloved Community's "Equity at Work," the Race and Equity Institute's "Groundwater," the Campaign for an Equitable New Orleans seminar program, and Overcoming Racism among others. Jonas was the national founder and first chief executive officer of Leading Educators. In addition to managing multiple strategic planning efforts as CEO of Leading Educators and raising over $35M to support its work, Jonas has led strategic retreats and planning efforts for organizations large and small. His consulting clients have included Educators For Excellence, New Orleans & Company, Deans For Impact, Education Board Partners, the Louisiana Restaurant Association, the Discipline Revolution Project, the Charles Butt Foundation, and Great Public Schools Now. Jonas came to Leading Educators from the Charter Schools Institute of the State University of New York where he served as executive director of the nation's largest university-based charter school authorizer. Previously, he served as the founding president and chief executive officer of the Charter School Policy Institute in Austin, Texas, and as executive director of Teach For America in Houston, Texas. Jonas began his career as a teacher in the Compton Unified School District. He holds a BA from Cornell University, MA from Chapman University, Ed.M. from Harvard University, and Ed.D in educational leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Jonas currently serves on the boards of Propeller, Inc. and Leading Educators. He is also a professional actor, and resides in New Orleans, LA, with his son.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

Originally from Cameroon, via Houston, Gabe now lives in NYC. He joined Teach for America after college and taught French, AP Bio, and Physical Science in the Mississippi Delta. He went on to launch an education nonprofit focused on college access and success that he led for six years. Gabe's main values of service and gratitude have guided both his professional and personal life.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

Jamie Beale Howe is an influential voice in strengthening companies' commitment to social citizenship by sharpening their focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion. As an accomplished commercial real estate executive with 20 years of experience, she delivered transformative business results via leadership in operations, capital planning, and major portfolio integrations.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

Jonathan is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, IN. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in American Culture from University of Michigan.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

KJ is a native of North Charleston, SC, and a proud graduate of South Carolina State University. KJ has been a featured speaker, moderator, host, or panelist for many organizations, including Creative Mornings Charleston, SURJ (Standing Up For Racial Justice), the Charleston Democratic Party, SXSW (South by Southwest), and the Columbia Museum of Art.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

LaTisha is an education revolutionary, who has exhibited innovation at the classroom level, as a principal and at a district-level over her twenty-five-year career. Known for her ability to develop education leaders, LaTisha has coached and strengthened educational systems in the Midwest, Southwest and the East Coast through Vaugh-Brandon Consulting.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

Lindsey has more than decade's worth of experience working with nonprofit organizations on issue advocacy, social justice, community changes, and economic development. She has experience in marketing, fundraising, strategic planning and applied research.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member
• Spokesperson, Campaign Strategist

Michael is an experienced spokesperson, campaign strategist, and public defender who served on the Obama and Clinton presidential campaigns. With a demonstrated history of working with media, he is skilled in political communication, public speaking, legal writing, and civil litigation and is a regular contributor on TV and in print.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• CEO of the Global Foundation for Education & Economic Mobility

A proud Gullah Native of the Sea Islands of Charleston, SC and resident of Atlanta, Quinetha is a graduate of Tuskegee University and Webster University, where she earned an MBA. She holds national certification by the National Development Council and NeighborWorks in Economic Development Finance, Community Development and Grant-writing. Quinetha serves on the boards of the South Carolina Community Loan Fund, The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina, and the Palmetto Project. Quinetha Frasier is a dealmaker, serial social entrepreneur, and management consultant. Her specialty is building funding relationships among social impact entities, grantmakers, corporations, and impact investors.

Job Titles:

• Collective Member

Susan is an Alabama native and the Principal and Owner of Kennedy Consulting LLC, where she brings almost 20 years of direct legislative experience to her work as a consultant. She takes great pride in her community, and her work focuses on economic development, tax policy, and compliance, and education reform.

Job Titles:

• Engineer
• Collective Member

Taylor is an engineer and psychometrician whose work extends from measuring & mitigating environmental harm in underserved communities to creating and facilitating culturally relevant methods of data assessment. She has previously worked with higher education consortiums, private sector consulting groups, and government agencies to develop and maintain more equitable systems of data collection and management.