Partners

Our Partners

Meet Our Partners

Olajiwon McCadney is smiling at the camera.

Olajiwon McCadney (he/him & they/them) is the Chair for Diversity Studies & the Executive Director for Intercultural Student Success & Strategic Partnerships at HACC, Pennsylvania Community Colleges. Additionally, McCadney is a board member for the National Association for African Americans in Human Resources (NAAAHR) as well as serves as a facilitator for the national team with the national team for the Center for Restorative Justice at the University of San Diego. Lastly, McCadney holds an MSEd in Organizational Leadership & Performance Technology from the College at Potsdam, State University of New York as well as certification in Professional Coaching and is a current doctoral candidate at Northeastern University.

Olajiwon has worked with us since 2021, when they joined our Antiracism Listening and Learning Series as a co-creator and co-facilitator of discussions on How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. He is also working on creating the 2023 Series on Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. Olajiwon helps guide the work of this grant and was a part of our August 2022 Planning Retreat.

Lolan Buhain Sevilla is holding a piece of paper that reads Fight like hell for the living.

Lolan is a cultural worker & organizer who strives to root their work in community, study and practice. They have spent the last decade cultivating an expertise in cross-sectoral nonprofit administration, specializing in crisis management, program strategy, and board development that is grounded in an anti-oppressive framework, and trauma informed lens. Lolan currently works as the Organizing Director at Funders for Justice, and formerly served on the Board of Directors for CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities & the Audre Lorde Project. A member of the National Writers Union (Local 1981), they have numerous publishing credits, including the recently co-authored “Individual Struggle, Widespread Injustice: Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Peoples’ Experiences of Systematic Employment Discrimination.

Lolan has worked with us since early 2020, when they helped us create our Needs Assessment. Lolan has also been a co-creator and co-facilitator of our Antiracism Listening and Learning Series since early 2021, and has led 2 Series on So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, and 2 Series on How to Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi. They are also working on creating the 2023 Series on Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. Lolan helps guide the work of our grant, and was a part of our August 2022 Planning Retreat.

Carolina Kroon is smiling at the camera.

Carolina Kroon (she/her/hers) Carolina is a visual producer, educator and activist who collaborates with organizations and individuals working towards social justice. For more than two decades she has assisted in representing communities, conspiring with many of the countries’ most effective publications and non-profits. She has facilitated and taught visual literacy and production with many people ranging in age from 8-80 in both community and academic settings. Her organizing has been focused within the LGBTQ and Women’s communities. She is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Carolina has worked with us since early 2020, when she helped us create our Needs Assessment. Carolina has also been a co-creator and co-facilitator of our Antiracism Listening and Learning Series since early 2021, and has led 2 Series on So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, and 2 Series on How to Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi. She is also working on creating the 2023 Series on Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. Carolina helps guide the work of our grant, and was a part of our August 2022 Planning Retreat.




Needs Assessment

View a list of everyone who worked with us on our Needs Assessment.