Board of Directors

Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change.

Elliott is the great grand-nephew of civil rights matriarch Amelia Boynton, lead strategist in the Selma Voting Rights Campaign who was beaten unconscious on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the right to vote.

Ebony Magazine's Top 100 influential African Americans of 2013

Graduated from Troy University of Montgomery in 1994 with a degree in Counseling and pursued Doctorial studies at Walden University.

Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law

"I was born in a time of protest, when civil rights leaders would sleep in our house—as many as 50 or 100 curled up right there on the floor,"

Director of Global Initiatives at Greenwich Academy

Master Degree in Education