Shequila Roberts
Shequila facilitates workshops for women and youth. Her target audience is single mothers. Her goal is to emotionally and mentally develop mothers, with the aim of improving mother-child positive bonding, and increasing the mother’s involvement in their child’s education. Shequila began her servant-leader advocacy by providing resources for at-risk youth. She pivoted to focus on […]
Olivia Blase
During her time in Crave, Olivia worked for nonprofits that served women and youth in Orlando. In 2020, she moved to Spain to teach English where she worked for two years in a school with kids from immigrant families. Now, she works as a freelancer, offering marketing and operations support to various organizations and companies, […]
Marquis McKenzie
Marquis innovation is to teach at risk youth entrepreneurship with the goal to keep them from reentering the judicial system. He has created the Community Outreach Enterprise Corporation entrepreneurship program with a goal of transforming participants lives by showing them first, other ways to make legal money and second, to connect each participant with mentors […]
Jarvis Wheeler
Jarvis Wheeler is the Statewide Director of Community Partnership Schools with Children’s Home Society of Florida. He is responsible for developing best practices, increasing support to the field, to ultimately improve outcomes in the schools that CHS leads across the state from Pensacola to Miami. Wheeler joined CHS in 2013, serving as the community partnership […]
Blu Bailey
Blu Bailey is the founder of The Write, an organization focused on mentoring teens through creative writing, poetry, spoken word and hip hop culture. She began with life-skills workshops with youthful offenders at 33rd Street Jail and currently works with poetry clubs in schools and local creative spaces. Her mission is to pioneer safe spaces […]