Our Team
Full-time Team
Charli Cooksey
Founder & CEO
Yoni Blumberg
Vice President of Community Wealth Building
Camille Greer
Director of Organizational Sustainability
Edgar Payano
Entrepreneur Development and Outreach Lead
Alicia Alexander
Vice President of Development
Amina Abdul-Malik
Director of Investments
Kate Keator
Director of Data & Data Strategy
Nikki Peterson
Changemaker Program Manager
Coral Bello-Martinez
Economic Justice Organizer, STL
Antoine White
Lead Economic Justice Organizer, ESTL
Luke Melton
Director of Political Strategy
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