Our Team

The Staff

Aziza Lucas-Wright, Executive Director

Erika Tate, Chief Operating Officer/ Director of Programs

Dr. Yolanda Gorman, Evaluator

Norma Mtume, Finance

Vina Crum, Quality Assurance

Edwina Fisher, Prevention Coordinator

Shavon Moore-Cage, Senior Outreach Coordinator & Family Health Ambassador

Kimberly Hopson, Outreach Coordinator

Kassandra Thomas, Administrative Assistant

Remembering our beloved Founder and former Executive Director (1994 - 2018), Ms. Sharon Blackburn.

Board of Directors

Brenda Anderson, President

Michael Browning, Member-At-Large

Nason Buchanan, Member-At-Large

Deborah Parra, Member-At-Large

Ali Powell, Member-At-Large

Madalynn Rucker, Member-At-Large

Mary Starks, Member-At-Large

Advisory Council

Robert Aguirre, People Coordinated Services of Southern California

Charlene Williams, Ward AME Church and Dangerfield Institute for Urban Problems 

Douglas Johnson, Avalon Carver Community Center 

Jovita Murillo, Community Faculty - Charles Drew University