CO-FOUDNER & CEO, VILLAGE IS POSSIBLE

Model: Stages of Change

(for those working with youth who have experienced sexual exploitation)

Healing Centered Engagement Facilitator. Trauma-informed care expert.

FOUNDER & CEO, LEAD

Model: Mosaic Parent Hub (connecting foster parents with each other)

LEAD (a hub to uplift those with lived experience superpowers)

MBA. Lived expertise as a foster youth. Trust and community-builder.

CO-FOUNDER, OUR LIVED EXPERIENCE

Model: Anti-racist Community-centered Approaches in Child Welfare

Youth justice policy specialist. Community organizer. Now at PEN America bringing poetry to those serving in prison. Previously at Boston University’s Center for Antiracism.

CEO Proximate Solution Consulting

Advancing partnerships with individuals who have acquired experience through their involvement with systems.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALIANZA FOR YOUTH JUSTICE

A Chicano social entrepreneur, community organizer,

and leader in the fight to end youth incarceration.

CO-FOUNDER, JUMPSTART

Model: JUMPSTART USA

Seasoned Entrepreneur. Re-entry specialist.

Pioneering Equitable Standards in Homelessness Care & Advocacy

A brand, community, and platform building tools, resources, and connections for people on healing journeys.

CEO, GROCHARITY & ANCESTORS’ DREAM APOTHECARY

Community Organizer, Nonprofit Coach and Spiritual Herbalist helping BIPOC Visionaries succeed in rebuilding and uplifting their communities.

CO-FOUNDER, OUR LIVED EXPERIENCE

Model: Adverse Professional Experiences

Cares about the people who care about people. Developed a framework called Adverse Professional Experiences, about the adverse experiences she saw occur while leading a national fellowship program.

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL, COLLECTIVE EVOLUTION CONSULTING

Practical Wisdom: Co-creating spaces & places of belonging

Attorney + Social Worker. Background as a policy advocate. Former owner of the Curious George Store. Small-business-owner-coach. Master EDI facilitator.

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL, ELLEN SCHULTZ CONSULTING

Practical Wisdom: Advancing Equity through Measurement

“Using data to tell stories grounded in lived experience is one way to

unblock progress toward a more equitable future.”

CO-FOUNDER, OUR LIVED EXPERIENCE

Model: PRESENCE & TRUST

Nurse. Led both non-profit and for-profit start-ups focused on whole person care. Special talent for making acronyms for models. Joyful about facilitating unlikely collaborations.

TALENT ECOSYSTEMS

INNOVATOR

Lynn facilitated a national community of practice known as Talent For

Good, dedicated to the effectiveness of the social impact sector.

FOUNDER, A SPARK CONSULTING

Passionate about improving public system, increasing accessibility and engaging lived experience experts as part of system transformation. Served as first human-centered design advisor for Community Solutions with the goal to support a holistic understanding of community systems