"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
Boston-born and world-trained, Derek Lumpkins works and lives at the intersection of intentional community engagement and meaningful social change. He draws upon over a decade of experience supporting the growth and visibility of communities of color in the for-profit, non-profit, and higher education sectors. His experiences provide him with the insight to recognize performative approaches to equity, inclusion, and community engagement that are insufficient in addressing the complexity of 21st-century situations. As such, he has an eye on sustainable relationships and fresh perspectives, and works with clients to design progressive, creative, ethical, and socially-just solutions that push at the boundaries of the status quo to create meaningful change.
Derek’s support of community engagement through public arts initiatives includes having been a member of the Boston Cultural Council, Massachusetts Governor Patrick’s Public Art Task Force, and Boston Mayor Walsh’s Arts and Culture Transition Team. He has spoken about community engagement and cultural economic development at NEFA’s Creative Communities Exchange Conference, the International Town Gown Association conference, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and at Northeastern and other Boston area universities.
Derek has also been mentioned in Bostinno and The Boston Globe and he has appeared on CityLine and Basic Black. Additionally, Derek has lived, worked, and studied in Japan, England, and Spain, and he holds an MS in International Studies and Diplomacy from the University of London, SOAS.
Derek Lumpkins
Brianna Boggs is a leadership coach and consultant to executives and boards of directors in periods of growth and change. She focuses on racial equity (dismantling white supremacy culture, supporting leaders of color in white-founded organizations, helping white leaders build tolerance for the discomfort that comes with authentic racial equity work, preparing organizations for transition) and fundraising (building skills, confidence, and creative strategies; responsibly transitioning funding relationships from founders to new leaders).
As co-founder and co-facilitator of the Racial Equity Leaders Learning Circle, with Rebecca Jackson and Madeline McNeely, Brianna developed the curriculum and facilitates a 10-month cohort for nonprofit senior leaders seeking to dig deeply into the personal side of leadership on racial equity and implement new practices to improve their organizations.
Prior to her coaching and consulting work, Brianna’s career focused on fundraising and communications in social justice organizations including GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders). At Trinity Boston Connects, she led public-facing strategies for the organization’s work to unlock opportunities for youth of color in Boston. At The Boston Foundation, Brianna led fundraising for StreetSafe Boston, a gang violence intervention strategy aimed at reducing homicide amongst the most active gangs in the city and, through counseling and job training, providing young people a way up and a way out. Brianna has served as a board member or volunteer for organizations including the Boston Women’s Fund, One Love Foundation, GLAD, the Ms. Foundation, the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund, Coro Allegro and InnerCity Weightlifting. She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from the Ohio State University. She is a proud midwesterner who descends from a country music singer/songwriter and an opera conductor. She lives in Dorchester, MA with her husband Sean.
Brianna Boggs
Rebecca N. Jackson, MSW is a clinically trained facilitator, teacher, consultant and coach. Her career began in a small Mattapan church where she served as pastor from 1999-2005. Rebecca completed her MSW in 2009, and has since focused on young people and families who have experienced trauma.
She joined Trinity Boston Connects in 2012 and founded its Organizational Equity Practice (OEP) in 2017 where her team provided specialized equity consulting and training services to local and national organizations. Madeline McNeely and Brianna Boggs were Affiliates of OEP and co-founded the Racial Equity Leaders Learning Circle. As Chief Program Officer at Trinity, Rebecca led a strategic planning process for the organization’s five programs and developed new human resources processes based in equity and restorative justice.
Rebecca teaches at Harvard, Boston College and Bridgewater State University. Through LoveSeed, Rebecca applies her decades of leadership and teaching experience in supporting mission-driven organizations to strengthen their equity practices, internally and externally. Rebecca creates spaces where people can have difficult but necessary conversations, learn, grow and thrive. She builds sustainable and brave leaders, teams and organizations that bring their equity values to life.
Rebecca N. Jackson, MSW
Yvonne Ng has more than 20 years of annual fundraising and stewardship experience in the nonprofit sector. She has helped build a multi-unit annual giving program from the ground up and has collaboratively raised more than $30M for open education from individuals, corporations, and foundations.
With solid experience in strategic planning, marketing and communications, and events management, she is inspired by the role of nonprofits and community-based organizations in leading the way for creating local change with global implications.
Yvonne Ng
Madeline McNeely is a multi-sector, interdisciplinary leader. She is a master level coach, a coach’s coach, consultant, facilitator, trainer and faculty member with over 25 years of experience. Her clients, ranging from former gang members and youth workers to surgeons and C-Suite executives, come from the non-profit, government and corporate sectors. Madeline has coached and consulted to over 100 corporate and non-profit organizations, small businesses and leaders.
Madeline’s leadership experience includes Managing Director at The Tracing Center, the educational non-profit based on the Emmy nominated documentary, Traces of the Trade and as Co-Program Director of City Year Boston overseeing 300 corps members and many staff. Organizational areas of expertise include culture change, leadership and organizational development, equity-based strategic planning, team building and group dynamics, executive transitions, facilitation and collaboration skills, executive leadership and career coaching, supervision, community and board development, meeting mastery, communication, leadership and neuroscience, Conversational Intelligence and Open-Space Technology. At Harvard Extension School (HES) graduate program, Madeline teaches Nonprofit Leadership and Community Engagement. At HES’s Division of Continuing Education Professional Development Program, she teaches Leadership Coaching Strategies, Executive Leadership Coaching: Mastery Session and has offered Leadership Coaching in the Virtual Age. She is also a certified Integral yoga teacher. McNeely earned her bachelor's degree in International Development from Lewis & Clark College and an M Ed from Temple University.
Madeline McNeely
