Darius White is a first-generation college graduate turned English teacher with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Stanford University. A decade into teaching, he works as a full-time high school English teacher and writing coach in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as serves as a board member for the San Francisco Education Fund, which provides volunteers and financial support to the local public school district. He uses his physical classroom and social media platforms to invite activists, advocates, allies, and educators into radical collaboration, inclusion, and liberation work. Lastly, when he is not lesson-planning or grading, he is building out his online platform, JustBlackThoughts.com, an information center and community for Black men in education to connect, converse, and co-create change.

A proud San Francisco Bay Area native, Amber Clayborne founded the Kerengende Foundation on the principles of community, education, and care. With a graduate degree in Human Resource Management, Amber integrates service, teamwork, and resource-mapping into her nonprofit work with survivors of sexual abuse and their families. Through educational workshops and community partnerships, the foundation empowers youth, families, and communities to better understand and prevent sexual abuse and trafficking. Amber is a mother, grandmother and an advocate for children and families impacted by sexual trauma. Her greatest hope is to have a community so informed about body safety, consent and prevention that there will be a significant decline in traumatic incidents experienced by children. She is deeply committed to ensuring a safer world for our children.

Micah Prior uses he/him pronouns and is a social worker and public health professional. His work focuses on social and economic development to create “economic engines” that holistically address root causes of poverty and racial inequality structuring our society. He is primarily an independent contractor and works in a variety of domains ranging from research, grant writing, consulting, project management, data analysis, policy advocacy, health intervention development, and racial health disparities. At his core, personally and professionally, he seeks to position himself to better understand, dismantle, and address white supremacy and racism.

​Jose is a consultant and Lived Experience Expert on Domestic Child Sex Trafficking, Public Speaker, Author, Advocate and Activist. He has worked with several anti-human trafficking organizations around the globe, to spread awareness on trafficking, specifically within the LGBTQ+ Community and on males. He has been featured in several publications and has worked with law enforcement, DHS and the DOJ to name a few.

David is a United Methodist pastor and Director of Rainbow House, an LGBTQIA+ inclusion center in Edwardsville, IL. He has worked with youth, young adults and families for nearly 4 decades as a teacher, coach and minister. He has a Masters in Christian Education and is a certified John Maxwell coach and speaker. His passion is to help those who do not belong, belong! This includes those often marginalized in our culture, especially the LGBTQIA+ community. He works to create safe space in the community through support, education and advocacy. He has a commitment to help change the narrative that sexual minorities have to choose between their faith and their identity. David is the proud father of 4 children and grandfather of 2.

Tamara’s passion for youth advocacy and community organizing started when she was 16 years old. After losing several childhood friends to gun violence and the criminal justice system, Tamara has devoted her career to improving conditions and systems impacting youth, particularly Black youth.

Tamara serves as the Juvenile Justice Council Coordinator with the St. Clair State’s Attorney’s Office in the Children’s Justice Division. Her work focuses on cross-sector partnership building, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice and education systems, improving youth mental health access, and building the community’s capacity for youth justice transformation and healing. In previous roles, Tamara has served in after-school programming, maternal health education, coordinating resident services for public housing families in North St. Louis, community engagement, and program evaluation.

Tamara graduated from Saint Louis University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice with a Minor in Education. She also has a graduate degree in Human Resource Management from Lindenwood University. She has over twenty years of adolescent development experience.

Kevin Hopkins has served as a juvenile justice case manager and is presently employed as a family engagement specialist within an at-risk school district. He has experience working with the families of preschool through high school students, community college students, and adult learners.