Our Team

We are a grassroots collective of community members and leaders seeking to make Lancaster County a community that works for everyone. We believe the work must continue until our government, criminal justice system, schools, health care and other institutions are free of systemic bias.

Join us at the townhall on March 18th from 8:30am - 12pm for a discussion on the current inequities in Lancaster and how we can create summit for tangible change.

Sobeida Rosa

Co-Founder, Lancaster Changemakers Collective

Zeshan Ismat

Professor of Geoscience

Chair, International Studies Program

Franklin & Marshall College

Makeda Flowers

Juvenile Probation Officer, Sr.

Dr. Damaris Rau

Retired SDoL Superintendent

Deb Napolitan

Member of the Dismantling Racism Committee at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster

Marty Kelley

Chair of the Dismantling Racism Committee at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster

Reverend Gerald Simmons

Senior Pastor Faith Tabernacle Church

Board Chair, Faith Tabernacle Transformation and Development Inc.

Carlos Wiley

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

John Maina

Founder, CEO

Central PA Equity Project

Emerson Sampaio

CEO HUBUB

Jeff Hawkes

Retired Lancaster journalist, an advocate with the Lancaster County Bail Reform Coalition, and a member of the Dismantling Racism Committee of Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster

Not pictured:

Ahmed Ahmed, Lancaster City Council
Howard Hanson, retired assistant principal, McCaskey High School
Joshua Hunter, director, Crispus Attucks Community Center
John Maina, founder, Central Pennsylvania Equity Project
Beth Reeves, Lancaster Friends Meeting and POWER Interfaith
Dr. Karen Rice, School of Social Work chair, Millersville University
Blanding Watson, president, Lancaster chapter, NAACP