Board of Directors

Rolando Brown

Rolando Brown is an award-winning Community Developer, Artist, and Entrepreneur. With more than 20 years of executive consulting experience across a range of industries and sectors, Rolando serves as a capacity building coach and a growth marketing consultant. His core areas of expertise are growth strategy and marketing operations. Before the global pandemic of COVID-19 …

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Anjali Sawhney

Anjali Sawhney is a Certified Integral Life Coach, New Ventures West (2005) & a trained international Leadership Embodiment Teacher (based on Aikido and Mindfulness, 2010). She has been studying & working with the Strozzi Institute since 2018 including participating in numerous in person and online teaching teams. She has coached & led workshops for hundreds …

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Stacie CC Graham – Treasurer

Dr. Stacie CC Graham is a sought-after expert on leadership, equity, and inclusion. Stacie works cross-industry as a management consultant supporting charities, SMEs, startups and corporations in creating and integrating equity and inclusion strategies across all areas of the business. Her degrees are in economics and psychology. Stacie is the founder of OYA: Body-Mind-Spirit Retreats, …

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Peg Birk

Peg is the Founder & CEO of Interim Solutions, a Minneapolis based specialty firm that works with foundations, non-profit organizations and associations undergoing management and organizational changes. Peg partners with boards of directors, staff and stakeholders to maximize leadership transitions. Peg brings to her change management expertise, executive experience as the executive director for the …

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Tesfaye Tekelu

Tesfaye Tekelu is co-founder of two non-profit organizations: Aikido Ethiopia and Awassa Youth Campus (which works with youth empowerment, conflict-resolution, gender equality and HIV awareness in Ethiopia) and Institute for Social Advancement (which works in education, in the US and Southern Africa). Tesfaye is responsible for introducing Aikido in East Africa, and currently holds a …

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