Our Team
Full-time Team
Charli Cooksey
Founder & CEO
Allison Gibbs
Director of Leadership Development & Special Projects
Keisha Mabry Haymore
Director of Entrepreneurship
Yoni Blumberg
Vice President of Community Wealth Building
Cara Pugh
Director of K12 Systems Change Initiatives
Camille Greer
Director of Organizational Sustainability
Edgar Payano
Entrepreneur Development and Outreach Lead
Vanessa Pimblott
Lead of Community Building and Partnerships
Emily Brennan
Executive Assistant
Suzanne Cade
Economic Justice Public Policy Fellow
Kate Keator
Program Operations Impact Fellow
Kathryn Coleman
Early Childhood Education Public Policy Fellow
SUPPORT TEAM
We are fortunate to work with a talented group of extended team members, who help drive our work.
LaShana Kelley
Organizer, Economic Justice
Whitney Bembenek
Bilingual Storytelling Lead
Nikki Kamp
Program Assistant
Emma Grady-Pawl
Program Assistant
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Roo Yawitz
Claudia Mendoza
Crystal Martin
Abdul-Kaba Abdulla
April Fulstone
Ryan Strode
PARTNERS
Leadership for Educational Equity
Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being
National Conference for Community and Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis
Urban Strategies
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
East St. Louis Center
Missouri Foundation for Health
Black Futures Lab
St. Louis Promise Zone
Incarnate Word Foundation
MEMBERSHIP
St. Louis Equity in
Entrepreneurship Collective
MOVE
Metropolitan Congregations United