our team

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Erika Bernabei’s (she/they, white queer) work connects intentions and impact, in solidarity with Black, Indigenous and communities of Color and our collective humanity. Through Equity & Results, Erika leads the strategic design and implementation of whole organization and collaborative work to achieve racially equitable results. Erika works with small and large organizations, collective impact initiatives and public agencies to use results-driven, racial equity principles to build capacity for impact.

    Equity & Results uses antiracist principles, developed by the People’s Institute, elders, scholars and organizers, to transform how systems work and strategically disrupt common practices and replace them with actions that address the root causes of the problem. Erika is an expert in Antiracist Results-Based Accountability (AR RBA), and has worked with groups locally and nationally to successfully use this tool.

    Prior to E&R, Erika worked at PolicyLink for nearly a decade, co-leading the development of the Promise Neighborhoods Institute to support more than 50 place-based partnerships implement a results driven infrastructure and as an Assistant Commissioner in the New York City Department of Homeless Services. She has a MA in Education Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University and a PhD in Educational Leadership from New York University.

    Erika lives in New York State with her partner and dog, and loves people, getting out of town, food and music.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Ronak Davé Okoye (she/they, Indian/South Asian) has worked for over 15 years to operationalize racial equity through systems change in local governments and nonprofits across the country. She worked most recently as the Chief of Strategy & Operations at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR), an urban policy think tank. In her role, Ronak is responsible for developing and implementing SPUR’s vision for change through organizational development, local action and complex political systems. Prior to SPUR, Ronak held various leadership roles within the public sector. As the Director of Community Benefits at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Ronak sat at the intersection of communities and big infrastructure, overseeing over $50M in community and environmental justice investments and revamping the agency’s affordability and shut off policies to center water as a human right. Prior to this, Ronak served in San Francisco’s Office of the Mayor as Deputy Director for HOPE SF, a multi-sector public housing transformation and reparations initiative disrupting intergenerational poverty through the development of equitable, mixed income communities and mobility pathways, without mass displacement. Her foundations in government were built working with the honorable Mayor Thomas Menino in the City of Boston where she built community health equity programs.

    Ronak began her career in the technology sector where she practiced human centered design and agile management, which undergird her constituent-driven and operational approach to government. Ronak also dedicates her time to many advocacy efforts for women’s reproductive rights and racial equity.

    She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and both an M.A and M.S from Tufts University where she investigated the intersections of health outcomes with the built environment, community development, and sociopolitical inequities. Ronak lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and two sons. She loves exploring the world through the eyes of her children, being outside, and experimenting with new recipes.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Marcais Frazier (he/him, Black) is responsible for providing executive coaching, Results-Based Accountability (RBA) consultation, and performance management technology support to individuals, communities, and organizations that desire to make clear, measurable impact.

    In his role as the Clear Impact Academy Director, Marcais founded and led the development of the Results-Based Accountability Professional Certification – a learning platform designed to certify the knowledge and application of the RBA framework. As a part of the online training, he has coached over 200 national and international professionals, including CEOs, executive directors, program managers, government leaders, consultants, funders, and staff.

    Marcais Frazier is a certified transformational coach through the Coach Diversity Institute– a distinction recognized and credentialed by the International Coaching Federation. He is currently consulting and providing technical assistance in the application of RBA to the Food and Drug Administration and the NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity Office. He is also serving as a skills coach in NHLBI Leadership Lab 2.0.

    Marcais is from Atlanta, Georgia – a city known as much for its southern hospitality as for its contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. As the city continues to evolve its legacy steeped in notable faith leaders, musicians, and comfort foods, he hopes to play an integral role in ushering in the new wave of community and culture.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Ashley’s (she/her, Multiracial Black Woman) passion for cultivating representative leadership stems from a deep love of the Milwaukee community and a belief that people, when given the opportunity to, can powerfully drive change within their own communities. She has over ten years of nonprofit leadership and experience working to achieve racial and educational equity nationally and locally. Ashley has been facilitating Antiracist Results Based Accountability with Equity and Results for nearly two years and has facilitated interpersonal and institutional racial equity conversations for over ten years. Her approach is centered on deep relationship building and creating the conditions necessary to have difficult and honest discussions that result in meaningful change and impact for organizations and the communities they support.

    Ashley also serves as the Chief Programs Officer for Public Allies Inc. where she shapes organizational strategic direction and ensures its national network effectively implements programs that empower emerging leaders, foster inclusive communities, and drive positive social change. Prior to her tenure at Public Allies, Ashley served as Special Assistant to the Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, where she designed and launched the Department of Black and Latino Male Achievement, addressing critical equity issues within the education system.

    Ashley is a native of the Sherman Park community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she resides with her family. She enjoys spending as much time outdoors as possible and thrives on travel, live music, and great meals shared with those she loves.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Theo Miller (he/him, Black) has over 20 years of experience leading community and neighborhood development solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems. An expert facilitator and educator on racial inequity and social change for Equity & Results, Theo has taught in university, criminal justice, corporate and community environments around the world.

    Miller was most recently a Senior Advisor for the Office of Mayor London N. Breed, and the director of HOPE SF, the nation’s first large-scale partnership aimed at transforming dilapidated and segregated public housing neighborhoods into vibrant, racially equitable mixed-income communities without mass displacement of residents. HOPE SF is a twenty-year human and real estate capital commitment, now spanning three mayoral administrations in San Francisco. Theo’s work created ladders of opportunity for longstanding underserved families, particularly African Americans and Pacific Islanders, through deep investments in mixed-income housing, networks of community leadership and resident voice, and education, health and employment services.

    A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Theo was inspired in college by the youth residents of New Haven, where he worked as a community organizer and mental health counselor. Throughout his career, he has advised and led businesses, universities, hospitals and elected officials in urban areas across the country to redesign policy, create new models of collaboration, and achieve dramatically better results for low-income communities of color.

    Prior to his appointment to the Office by the late Mayor Edwin M. Lee, Theo managed community benefits for the SF Public Utilities Commission, was a corporate attorney at the firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, a commercial broker and real estate developer, and a lecturer and Fellow at the Hutchins Institute at Harvard University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bar Association, and lives in Oakland and has two young daughters.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Andrés (he/they, Latinx) is a first-generation queer Peruvian-American living in Portland, Oregon. He is a policy wonk at heart, and thrives on the “how?” of movement building work. They believe knowledge and wisdom come in many forms, few of which are formal education. He has a Bachelors in Politics and Women and Gender Studies from Willamette University, and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University.

    They currently work as Chief of Staff for Oregon Futures Lab, a non-profit working to create BIPOC political power in Oregon. Previously, Andrés worked for the City of Portland, first developing renter protections in the Housing Bureau, then as a Senior Policy Advisor for Commissioner Chloe Eudaly. He has served on advisory bodies including the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission and Willamette University Alumni Board, and is currently Board Chair of ROSE CDC, and a founding board member of Portland: Neighbors Welcome.

    Andrés draws inspiration from the intellectual founders of the movement (Anzaldua, Estaban Muñoz, and the Combahee River Collective are some favs) while grounded in the reality that for our work to remain for the people, it must be accessible to all.

    Nothing about us, without us.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Elodie Baquerot Lavery (she/her, white) is an experienced senior executive with a demonstrated history of working across the public, non-profit, philanthropic, and private sectors to design and implement large-scale change efforts in service of racial justice. As the long-time Chief Operating Officer of two national non-profit organizations and a history of working in local and federal government, she has a deep and practiced understanding of what it takes - at the individual and institutional levels - to adaptively shape change from the inside-out. Much of her work falls at the intersection of antiracism and organizational development. Throughout, she deploys her facilitation, coaching, strategic planning, and operational skillsets to support organizational change that centers humanity and drives meaningful impact.

    Most recently, Elodie served as the Chief Operating Officer at Public Allies, a 28 year old national social justice organization committed to changing the face and practice of leadership by recruiting, training, and supporting talented young leaders, with a passion for social impact, to create meaningful change in their communities. Before that, she spent nine years as the COO of Living Cities; a leading racial economic justice organization focused on harnessing the collective power of 18 of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions and partnerships with localities across the country to close the racial income and wealth gaps in American cities. While there, Elodie managed the organization’s transformation from ‘start up’ to maturity; overseeing the implementation of an innovative results-oriented approach, driving strategic engagement with the Board of Directors, and overseeing talent/HR, culture, and finances.

    Prior to joining Living Cities, Elodie was a presidential appointee in the Obama Administration, where she served as a senior member of Secretary Shaun Donovan’s Office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Previously, Elodie was a Housing Fellow at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She has also worked as a Research Associate at Monash University and at the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

    Elodie is a member of the Antiracist Ecosystem of practitioners who work together for greater antiracist impact and is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA) and the London School of Economics (MSc). She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

  • Antiracist Impact Facilitator

    Drusilla Roessle (she/her, white) lives in rural Vermont with her dog and partner on a small farm. Dru works and volunteers with community-based organizations, nonprofit boards, government, and philanthropy to align values with organizational practices, strengthen learning and evaluation practices, and understand their impact.

    Dru has been a Results-Based Accountability trainer/practitioner since 2011, and now facilitates use of Anti-Racist RBA across the country as a member of the team at Equity & Results. She grounds her facilitation in principles of relational justice, believing the way we practice care with one another sets the conditions for any systems change effort to root.

    Dru served as Director of Performance Improvement at the State of Vermont Agency of Human Services for ten years. In her role, she facilitated planning, performance management, and continuous improvement across departments and community partner networks. Dru provided training, TA, and leadership coaching to all other state agencies and relevant legislative committees in results-based policymaking for equitable outcomes. She facilitated multi-year community and stakeholder engagement processes to create population data platforms for community organizing.

    Dru is energized and inspired by Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, in addition to many other founders and contemporaries of the movement – Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Bayo Akomolafe, adrienne maree brown, Melanie Goodchild, Robin Wall Kimmerer… and countless colleagues and friends.

    Dru’s education has focused on gender equity and policy, state welfare systems, and restorative justice, and she now studies the practice of disrupting patterns of domination in problem-solving methodologies through her work and schooling. Dru volunteers on boards in Vermont committed to confronting cultures of white supremacy and reimagining wellbeing in Vermont.

  • Collaborator

    Dr. JaNay Queen Nazaire (she/her, Black) is building a world where every person has the right to a healthy, abundant and connected life. A facilitator, convener and researcher, she is actively working to dismantle oppressive systems and restructure power and resources to enable an authentic multiracial democracy for future generations.

    Dr. Queen Nazaire builds relationships and networks across sectors to empower and mobilize leaders as they advocate for people who have been left out and systematically denied social, political and economic power. She uses her leadership positions to create wealth and wellbeing for people of color, with a particular focus on Black communities, as equity and liberation for the historically marginalized will benefit every person. In her role as co-founder of Black Gravity, she serves as the gravitational pull that brings together organizations and initiatives creating and sustaining Black wealth, with the goal of closing the racial wealth gap by 2060.

    As a Senior Advisor for PSG Equity, a private equity growth firm, she partners on social justice initiatives across a portfolio of 14,000 employees, expands access to diverse talent and creates connections for investable opportunities. As a PolicyLink Senior Fellow, she advises the economic mobility strategy to support moving 100 million Americans out of poverty.

    Throughout her career, she has worked with public, private and philanthropic stakeholders across the country, providing creative, solution-focused leadership and strategy and deploying millions in public and private capital to overcome social and economic challenges for people and places. Previous positions include senior leadership roles at Living Cities, a national philanthropic collaborative, and Clear Impact, a social sector consultancy.

    A consummate educator, Dr. Queen Nazaire serves as faculty and advisor for leaders and students, namely for the Health Foundation of Western and Central New York, FUSE Corps and the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. She is a collaborator with Equity & Results, a board member for Global Electronics Council, and serves on numerous advisory committees, including Ureeka, a platform that democratizes access and opportunity for entrepreneurs, and the Association of Enterprise Opportunity’s Tapestry Project, which accentuates and accelerates Black business development.

    She speaks, writes and facilitates on topics such as impact investing, collective action, data-driven decision making, systems change, racial justice and disruptive leadership.