We are strategists. We are communicators. We are catalysts.
As lifelong learners, we recognize the road to consistent anti-racist practice is steep and fraught—and yet it is necessary work.
We are actively doing it ourselves, so we know it can be done.
We commit to creating the space for real work with long-term positive effects, and we only work with clients who commit to the same.
The strength of the Southern Equity Collective (SEq) lies in its network of consultants—a highly-curated group of trusted leaders from non-profit, business, and government sectors.
We are individually and collectively committed to advancing racial equity through deep listening, pragmatic design, and effective facilitation.
As consultants, we enter into every client engagement with a singular focus on their unique dynamics and challenges, as well as the recognition that the longitudinal systemic change we seek will only come through the collective action of many.
With partners in Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston, Charlotte, Nashville, and New Orleans, SEq brings substantial expertise on corporate and nonprofit strategy, funding, communications & branding, governance, social impact, and public policy.
SEq curates every project team according to specialized experience and knowledge relevant to each client’s needs.
Born and raised in Nashville Tennessee, Caroline Randall Williams is an award-winning author, activist, public intellectual, performance artist, and scholar focused on the language we use to untangle and unlearn America’s racist past and present.
Caroline Mauldin is an executive coach, facilitator, and organizational consultant helping clients find their way through complex dynamics and complicated narratives. As an advisor to senior leaders and teams across corporate and social impact sectors, her consulting practice is grounded in empathy, inclusion, and efficiency.
Quinetha Frasier is a dealmaker, serial social entrepreneur, and management consultant. Her specialty is building funding relationships among social impact entities, grantmakers, corporations, and impact investors.
Jonas Chartock is a creative strategist, social entrepreneur, and educator with a demonstrated history of impact in the nonprofit and government sectors. With a specific career focus on adult professional learning, he has spent the majority of his coaching and facilitating time on advancing leaders’ awareness and resulting actions regarding issues of organizational growth as well as race, power, and privilege.
Apphia is a respected strategist, executive, and former Naval Officer with 10+ years of experience in healthcare, technology, and military operations. As Chief Operations Officer of the Southern Equity Collective, she leads the design, execution, and continual improvement of equitable, growth-oriented policies and processes so that SEq is consistently modeling effective, anti-racist business practices.
Lindsey has more than decade’s worth of experience working with nonprofit organizations on issue advocacy, social justice, community changes, and economic development. She has experience in marketing, fundraising, strategic planning and applied research.
Jamie Beale Howe is an influential voice in strengthening companies’ commitment to social citizenship by sharpening their focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion. As an accomplished commercial real estate executive with 20 years of experience, she delivered transformative business results via leadership in operations, capital planning, and major portfolio integrations.
Taylor is an engineer and psychometrician whose work extends from measuring & mitigating environmental harm in underserved communities to creating and facilitating culturally relevant methods of data assessment. She has previously worked with higher education consortiums, private sector consulting groups, and government agencies to develop and maintain more equitable systems of data collection and management.
Originally from Cameroon, via Houston, Gabe now lives in NYC. He joined Teach for America after college and taught French, AP Bio, and Physical Science in the Mississippi Delta. He went on to launch an education nonprofit focused on college access and success that he led for six years. Gabe’s main values of service and gratitude have guided both his professional and personal life.
Audrey KS Lane is a respected facilitator and consultant with 20 years’ experience in talent pipeline development, leadership development, strategy, and project management. Previously, Audrey led racial equity initiatives at the South Carolina Public Charter School District and Charleston County School District.
KJ is a native of North Charleston, SC, and a proud graduate of South Carolina State University. KJ has been a featured speaker, moderator, host, or panelist for many organizations, including Creative Mornings Charleston, SURJ (Standing Up For Racial Justice), the Charleston Democratic Party, SXSW (South by Southwest), and the Columbia Museum of Art.
Michael is an experienced spokesperson, campaign strategist, and public defender who served on the Obama and Clinton presidential campaigns. With a demonstrated history of working with media, he is skilled in political communication, public speaking, legal writing, and civil litigation and is a regular contributor on TV and in print.
Susan is an Alabama native and the Principal and Owner of Kennedy Consulting LLC, where she brings almost 20 years of direct legislative experience to her work as a consultant. She takes great pride in her community, and her work focuses on economic development, tax policy, and compliance, and education reform.
LaTisha is an education revolutionary, who has exhibited innovation at the classroom level, as a principal and at a district-level over her twenty-five-year career. Known for her ability to develop education leaders, LaTisha has coached and strengthened educational systems in the Midwest, Southwest and the East Coast through Vaugh-Brandon Consulting.
Jonathan is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, IN. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in American Culture from University of Michigan.
A native of Birmingham, AL, David is the Founder of Panorama Advisors where he supports clients to build equity-centered teams, create strategies that work, and bring those strategies to life. He has worked foirst hand in the non-profit, corporate, philanthropy, and public education sectors, and brings an understanding of the complexities of social change.
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