Meet Our Talented Team

LaShauna is the owner and principal operator of Seeds of Change Consulting and Kindred Seedlings Farm. She possesses a demonstrated record of collaborating with communities, both faith-based and secular, to address race, food justice, land ownership, and equity issues. Building on her experience in leadership, management, and administrative roles with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, she has devoted her current professional life to advancing racial equity and building better food systems locally and beyond.

With more than 20 years of experience in social justice philanthropy, Millie has the skills and insight to help funders and nonprofit organizations achieve their goals. Millie has worked on all sides of the funding table – with grassroots organizations, intermediaries, family and private foundations.

Crystal is the co-founder of Seven Directions of Service with her husband. She is a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in Burlington, NC. Crystal is also an expert in her field of Strategic Intelligence, Political Campaigns, and Public Administration.

Brian D. Crisp is a North Carolina native who has served schools and churches for over thirty years, focusing on creating equity through a systems approach that examines individual, cultural, and structural dynamics. Brian resides with his partner, Charles, in Harnett County, where they foster community through anti-racist principles and practices.

Jenn is a southern girl, raised in Appalachia, who spent nearly two decades living in the Boston Metro area. Upon returning back to North Carolina in 2013, Jenn continued her journey working in academia where she became deeply invested in working alongside young adults who grappled with a keen curiosity for challenging oppressive systems.

Trina is a life-long resident of North Carolina with Northern European ancestry. She engages in facilitation, coaching, and strategic planning with an emphasis in engaging with folks racialized as white to identify our barriers and embrace a joyful future.

Marcus Alexander Hill is a dynamic artist, activist, and community leader, known for his commitment to social change, grassroots economic decolonization, and equitable and accessible public health.

Min Jae Kim (Min Jae/she/her) brings a unique blend of systems thinking, spiritual grounding, and transformative leadership to Seeds of Change Consulting. As a first-generation queer Korean immigrant and community minister, Min Jae approaches organizational development through the lens of liberation and collective healing, believing that true restoration comes through returning power to those most marginalized.

Tanya is a community organizer and public education advocate. She received her MBA from Mississippi State University and her MSW from UNC-Charlotte. Her experience includes working in corporations and in public education and communities as a social worker She enjoys using a business, community-oriented, anti-racist lens in consulting work.

Yasmeen is passionate about the power of data to connect those at the grassroots with those at the grass tops. She is an evaluator and researcher. Yasmeen has a BA in Public Health Studies from Elon University. She also has an MPH with a concentration in health policy from the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Kana is a farmer and sustainable food systems advocate and consultant based in Forsyth County. She applies a racial equity lens to her work and believes in community-based solutions to create systems-level change.

Hetal is a Program Manager for MDC’s Rural Forward program where she works to support local leaders to amplify their work in the community. In her role, she provides many services such as facilitation, consultation, conflict resolution strategies and leadership coaching to rural leaders.

Abbey is based at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) where her focus is increasingly on supporting coalitions to become effective multi-racial teams. Abbey takes a particular interest in the work of white women to address power and whiteness so that a culture of interconnection is possible.

Rachael Reichenbach (they/them) is a social justice facilitator, DEI consultant, and cultural organizer building individual and organizational capacity to align healthy culture with effective strategy. They coach individuals and facilitate groups through the processes of disrupting white supremacy culture; furthering justice, equity, diversity, & inclusion goals; and operationalizing social justice values internally and externally.

Lexy Roberts is a community engagement specialist and equity-driven leader, skilled in Results-Based Facilitation and Liberatory Design. She works to foster collaboration and systems change in education and nonprofit sectors, and trains others on addressing structural racism through her roles with the Racial Equity Institute and various equity initiatives.

Karinda is a midwife by practice and a racial equity consultant by trade. Her career began as an undergraduate anthropology student studying cross-cultural birth practices in Cape Coast, Ghana. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Davidson College, her BSN from UNC-Chapel Hill, and her MSN from Frontier School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Mtende is a multi-faceted person with experience in software development, real estate investing and spoken word poetry to name a few. She operates in the belief that there are many creative ways to solve a problem.

Alice Sarti is a mother, writer, advocate and professional asker of challenging questions. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU and a Master’s degree from Duke in postcolonial African and African-American literature. Alice has worked in a wide variety of roles including non-profit work for educational equity, arts in activism, equitable mental health access and the cultivation of challenging and compassionate white affinity spaces.

Beverly has a BS degree in Public Health Education with a concentration in Community Health and a dual Master’s degree in Business Administration / Health Administration. She has over five years of racial equity work in varying sectors including early childhood development, public health, and community organizing.

Lunch Lady cooking up culturally relevant, climate conscious, regional food systems supporting school meals.

The Rev. Breana van Velzen (none/they), M.Div., M.S.W. is a professional facilitator experienced in non-profit consulting, leadership, strategic planning, board management, grant writing, human resources, diversity, equity, and inclusion change-making, and community organizing, with a specialty in theo- ethical praxis for parachurch ministry and faith-based institutions across religions. 

Mìchelle is a licensed clinical mental health counselor – associate with a background in health equity, community education, and public health systems. Throughout her career she has worked in a variety of settings, including health care, local government, non-profit and behavioral health services.