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FOUNDER & CO-FOUNDER
Rev. Dr. Charles F. Boyer
Founder
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
--- Malcom X
Rosalee Boyer
Co-Founder
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
--- Shirley Chisholm
STAFF
Gantry Fox
Director of Operations
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
--- Malcom X
Racquel Romans-Henry
Policy Director
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
--- Fannie Lou Hamer
Richelle Terese
Research & Public Relations Director
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
--- James Baldwin
Tuoyo Nanna
Finance Director
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
― Booker T. Washington
Jared Hunter
Senior Organizer
We will all, at some point, encounter hurdles to gaining access and entry, moving up and conquering self-doubt; but on the other side is the capacity to own opportunity and tell our own story.
— Stacey Abrams
Shadura Lee
Organizer
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
— Thurgood Marshall
Symone Sparks
Digital Strategist
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
— Dr. Mae Jemison
Rhonda Lige
Executive Administrative Assistant
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”— Desmond Tutu
FELLOWS
Amber Scott
Black Theological Fellow
The time is always right to do what is right.
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rev. Robin Tanner
Chief Strategy Fellow
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
--- Toni Morrison, Beloved
Retha Onitiri
Restorative Justice Fellow
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
— Ida B. Wells
Rev. J. Amos Caley
Abolition Campaign Fellow
Freedom is never given; it is won.
— A. Philip Randolph
TRENTON RESTORATIVE STREET TEAM
Tracy Syphax
Program Coordinator
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
— Rosa Parks
Keyion Jones
High Risk Interventionist
Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.
--- John Lewis
Diane Bellamy
High Risk Interventionist
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
--- Madam C.J. Walker
Antonio Bellamy
Restorative Justice Fellow
The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious.
― Stokely Carmichael
Quason Pittman
Outreach Worker
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
- Huey P. Newton
Pete Lewis
Outreach Worker
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
— Sojourner Truth
Micheal Hilton
Outreach Worker
​He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
— Muhammad Ali
OUR BOARD
Deborah Jennings
Chairman
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
— Barack Obama
Eisa Jackson
Secretary
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made."
— Michelle Obama
Willie Moorer
Chaplin
"Character is power."
— Booker T. Washington
Jerome C. Harris
Board Member
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
— Marcus Garvey
Frances Harwell
Board Member
"There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kim Wellons
Board Member
"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right."
— Aretha Franklin
Hosea Johnson
Board Member
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
— Maya Angelou
Rev. Dr. Lesly Devereaux
Board Member
"Don't agonize, organize.”
— Florynce Kennedy
Kimme Carlos
Board Member
"The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace."
— Chinua Achebe
Karen Bellamy Lewis
Board Member
Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out.
— Tina Turner
Rev. Dr. Timothy Levi Adkins-Jones
Board Member
"Don't agonize, organize.”
— Florynce Kennedy
Rev. Micah L. McCreary, Ph.D.
Board Member
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
— Chinua Achebe
Rev. Dr. Timothy Levi Adkins-Jones
Board Member
We have a wonderful history behind us…and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.
— Carter G. Woodson
Kimme Carlos
Board Member
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
— Alice Walker
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