
OUR VILLAGE


Dailishi Rodriguez
Board Co-Chair
Founder
Hey There Beautiful

Kim Waldon
Board Co-Chair
Executive Director, Mount Vernon Family YMCA

Maria Neve
Board Treasurer, Senior VP, Head of Human Resources, Americas, SONY Music Entertainment

Cathline Burgos
Board Secretary
Educator, New Jersey Department of Education
Black Women's Blueprint operates as a reduced hierarchical member organization. Our organization strives to operate with equally distributed power regardless of titles, and ensures decision-making power by our member base, which includes male-identified individuals, youth, women and gender-fluid persons across a vareity of ethnicities. The organization’s eight board of directors and nearly 180 volunteers on the advisory board are reflective of the culturally specific community that this project wishes to serve.

Geraldine Dease
Board of Directors
Investigator, NYC Human Resources Administration

Rosemary Didi Jordan
Board of Directors
Founder, Rasmali Wellness

Whitney D. Smith
Board of Directors
Educator, Democracy Prep Public Schools

Bethy Victorin
Board of Directors
NYC Administration for Children's Services
OUR TEAM
BWB has made bold staffing moves to take its last mandate of reconciliation and healing to the next level. Our Executive Directorship transitioned to a Co-Executive Directorship model, shared by Farah Tanis and Sevonna Brown. Ms. Brown assumes Co-Executive Directorship of the initiatives under the umbrella of BWB, focusing on reproductive health and integrative medicine for survivors, while Ms. Tanis assumes Co-Executive Directorship of BWB with a primary focus on its new flagship initiative, Restore Forward.

Farah Tanis
Co-Founder,
Co-Exectutive Director

Cecile Lipworth
Director of Strategic Development

Sevonna Brown
Co-Executive Director

Eve Admasu
Executive Assistant

Anne Duckett
Finance Manager

Naimah Johnson
Clinical Director

Orlene Gray-Davis
Chief Program Officer

Shabieko Ivy
Counselor

Cryxine Costanzo
Data and Fundraising Manager
Faculty & Consultants


Iakowi.he'ne' Oakes
Intercommunal Peace Building & Reconciliation Consultant

Jennifer Billig
Principal Consultant and Lead Faculty, administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)

Terrence Harewood
Faculty, Professor of Multicultural Education

Johndalyn Armstrong, MA
Trainer / Facilitator

Tonya Lovelace
President & CEO
Lovelace Consulting Services, Inc.

Nan Stolzenburg

Debra Inwald
Founder, Principal Consultant, Community Planning and Environmental Associates
Founder & CEO
Works-In-Progress Associates