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
Director 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 Economic Justice Organizer
Emily Brennan
Executive Assistant
SUPPORT TEAM
We are fortunate to work with a talented group of extended team members, who help drive our work.
Stacey Pugh
Program Operations Associate
LaShana Kelley
Organizer, Economic Justice
Whitney Bembenek
Bilingual Storytelling Lead
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