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
Mina Aria
Director of Organizing & Campaigns
Emily Brennan
Executive Assistant
Nikki Peterson
Changemaker Program Manager
Kate Keator
Program Operations Impact Fellow
Coral Bello-Martinez
Economic Justice Organizer, STL
SUPPORT TEAM
We are fortunate to work with a talented group of extended team members, who help drive our work.
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