Cecelia Alvarado's higher education work includes 15 years as professor/chairperson of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Department at Santa Barbara City College, seven years as a Senior Associate at the Wheelock College Institute for Leadership and Career Initiatives and as an adjunct faculty member at Pacific Oaks College, UC Santa Barbara and currently at George Mason University. Her independent consulting work incorporates dismantling racism work with servant leadership principles, accountability to communities and culturally appropriate program development. For the past 35 years, Cecelia has combined teaching of adults and children, organizing in communities of color and technical assistance with local, state and national organizations and boards, non-profit groups and schools with a variety of issues and areas of need such as: leadership development, anti-bias curriculum development, bilingual education, faculty development, organizational development and ensuring community self-determination. She has authored articles and books on some of these topics as well.

Bree Carlson is a lead trainer with more than 10 years of organizing experience in community, labor, and electoral projects. Working extensively throughout the United States and abroad, Bree has provided training and facilitation to groups ranging from grassroots community organizations and state-wide coalitions to regional intermediaries and national organizations. Bree has assisted in the creation and implementation of the Dismantling Racism curriculum and has trained hundreds of organizations in the DR process, board development, strategic planning, and fundraising.

M. E. Dueker is a lead trainer who most recently served as executive director of Project Underground, a human-rights and environmental organization in Berkeley, CA. Dueker brings 12 years of organizing experience in various contexts, including campuses, small communities, membership organizations, national organizations, international solidarity work and electoral efforts. Dueker has gained a broad practical knowledge in the non-profit sector through experience in administrative, fundraising, management, board of directors, lead organizer and consultant roles in non-profits across the United States. Dueker has conducted dismantling racism and organizational development trainings for social change organizations nationwide for the past 7 years.

Delmarie Hines has worked in administration in social change organizations for over15 years. Her work has involved building organizations with equitable human resources practices and work cultures that foster a productive, pro-active, empowered workforce focused on fulfilling the organizations mission while treating colleagues and the community with dignity. Delmarie currently works at the Environmental Support Center in Washington, DC which builds the capacity of grassroots environmental activists and environmental justice organizations. 

Michelle Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker working at Counseling and Psychological Services at University of North Carolina. Growing up she always had a passion for social justice work and was greatly influenced by her mother's work as a special education teacher in the city schools of Richmond, Virginia. She attended the University of North Carolina's School of Social Work and graduated in 1996 with a Masters in Social Work. While attending UNC she was very involved with the Black Student Caucus and the Women's Caucus. She worked as a social worker at East Chapel Hill High School (N.C.) where she developed several diversity programs. In her current position, she has helped lead efforts to assess outreach efforts and services to students of color.

Tema Okun has worked with community-based, social change non-profits for over 20 years. She has served in a variety of roles, including development director, training director, and interim executive director. Tema has worked with literally hundreds of organizations on organizational development issues including fundraising, long-range strategic planning, member and board development, issue and organizing campaigns. She worked with the late Kenneth Jones for 14 years (6 of those at ChangeWork) doing both organizational and anti-racist organizational development work with a wide range of organizations and communities. Tema has a B.A. from Oberlin College, Ohio (1975) and an M.S. in Adult Education from N.C. State University (1997). She is currently a doctoral student at UNC-Greensboro.

Suzanne Plihcik is a community organizer and facilitator for the Partnership Project, a collaboration working to strengthen neighborhood and institutional relationships through an increased understanding of systemic racism. She and her partners conduct anti-racism workshops and teach the skills of anti-racist community organizing. Additionally, she conducts organizational development workshops and provides meeting facilitation. She is past director of Project Greensboro, a community building organization working with Greensboro neighborhoods and the agencies that serve them.

Before joining Project Greensboro, she was executive director of the National Alliance for Non-Violent Programming, a coalition of national organizations seeking to reduce violence in entertainment through media-literacy. Her community and civic experience includes extensive work with public schools and service on the Merger Task Force and the Commission on the Needs of Children. She is a founding member of the Greensboro Public School Fund, Dance on Tour, and Friends of Public Education.