Our Team
Full-time Team
Charli Cooksey
Founder & CEO
Christopher Dennis
Chief of Staff
Allison Gibbs
Chief Operating Officer
Yoni Blumberg
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Community Wealth Building
Paula-Breonne Vickers
Director of Early Childhood Power Building
Kevin Lashley
Director of Communications
Michael Atty
Senior Director of Organizing and Campaigns
Saida Cornejo Zuñiga
Recruitment and Capital Access Lead
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Andrew (Roo) Yawitz, Chair Emeritus
Marissa Cohen
Erica Henderson
Mary McKay
Rebeccah Bennett
Laura Horwitz
Jerina Phillips
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