Curtis Renee (they/them)
Board President
As a Black Lives Matter (BLM) Detroit Co-Lead, Curtis focuses on keeping the organization in alignment with its mission and vision, as well as in harmony with the broader BLM region and network. For the past 15+ years Curtis has had experience in developing, creating, and implementing programs in line with the larger vision of profit and nonprofit organizations (Leaps & Bounds Family Services, Urban Leadership Specialist, Feedom Freedom Growers, and Detroit Area Restorative Justice Center). They also regularly work as a Legal Observer and are a founding member of The Detroit Safety Team.
Affiliations: Black Lives Matter Detroit: Grassroots, Detroit Safety Team
Liz Jacob (she/her)
Board Secretary
Liz is a Staff Attorney at the Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice. Liz works as an environmental justice and civil rights lawyer to advance environmental, social, and economic justice alongside communities of color and low-income families in Detroit, Michigan. Liz is dedicating her life to working in community to collectively dream and build a transformative new world grounded in mutual aid, community care, justice, and equity so that all people and the planet can thrive. Liz is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and Yale Law School. Liz currently serves on the board of the Detroit-Michigan National Lawyers Guild and the People’s Solar Energy Fund.
Affiliations: Sugar Law, National Lawyers’ Guild, Detroit Peer Respite
Erin Butler (she/they)
Board Treasurer
Erin is an organizer born and raised in Detroit. Currently they are working on campaigns to create a peer respite (an alternative to carceral hospitalization for people in crisis) in Detroit, archive the lessons learned from abolitionist movements in Detroit, move antiracist white people towards radical action, read, write, and learn with people inside of prisons, and organize mineral rights owners for climate justice. She is proud to be a board member for this values aligned organization.
Affiliations: Detroit Safety Team, Detroit Peer Respite, Standing Up for Racial Justice
Ashley Calhoun (she/her)
Board Member at Large
Ashley Calhoun is a fundraising and development professional who has spent her career working to support projects that resource work from the ground up, and from margin to center.
She enjoys empowering others to support and strengthen their communities through philanthropy, volunteerism, and sustainable change. Ashley has been in the nonprofit industry for 10 years and has focused on development for five years. She wants to create a global community of individual, organizational, and corporate supporters who connect to organizational missions through relationship building and resource sharing.
She is currently a board member for the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Detroit Chapter, and she leads the Marjorie S. Fisher Fellowship program for new and/or young nonprofit development professionals. She graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Art History.
Affiliations: Association of Fundraising Professionals – Greater Detroit Chapter, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, CultureSource, Michigan Primary Care Association, InsideOut Literary Arts Project, The Detroit Writing Room, Detroit Narrative Agency
D Khalife, PA-C (they/he)
Board Member at Large
D is a queer, trans masc allopathic medicine care worker with roots in south Lubnan. He is humbled to provide care in folx homes and in a family medicine practice in Banglatown, Hamtramck.
Dearborn Heights was home for most of their childhood and he completed his physician assistant training at University of Detroit Mercy. Their most formative teachers were the young queer and trans folx they worked with at Ruth Ellis, and the plants of the herbal medicine lineage of Canaan that were their first medicine.
Their north stars are the principles of liberatory harm reduction, healing justice, trauma-informed care, and transformative justice.
D feels very strongly that Sailor Moon should’ve had a Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus spinoff. He discovered this year that every 7-Eleven has all-beef hot dogs (pigs are haram), and it’s been their emotional support hot dog spot since.
Affiliations: Metro Medical Center
Jennifer Lynn Miller-Allgeier, NP (she/her)
Accountability Steward*
Jenn Miller-Allgeier, CPNP-PC is a Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who received her Master’s of Nursing and two Bachelor degrees, in Biology and Nursing, from Wayne State University. She has worked as a Registered Nurse in the Pediatric Oncology Hematology and Renal, Labor and Delivery, Mother-Baby, and Perinatology Research. She has worked in Adolescent Medicine since 2015 in School-Based and Community Health programs including the Ruth Ellis Health & Wellness Center. She joined the Adolescent Medicine Team as a Nurse Practitioner in March 2022. Jenn’s current work in Adolescent Medicine focuses on the care of youth and young adults, providing care for eating disorder recovery, management of mental health concerns and gender affirming care.
Affiliations: University of Michigan Child and Adolescent Gender Services
Danielle Flint, LMSW (she/her)
Accountability Steward*
Danielle is a passionate, social change agent, working to break generational curses within families and the systems with which they interface. She recognizes that individuals have work to do to improve the quality of their lives.
Danielle is experienced at working within systems that attempt to serve and support these individuals. Her passion for youth and families has brought her to the point of eagerly supporting those who maintain the goods and services those youth and families need to survive.
A Founding Partner / Clinician at Imani Ya Kupinga, a cooperative group therapy practice, her experience includes 17 years in Human Services, specializing in youth and families, with 7 years experience in child welfare and 10 years experience in nonprofit leadership. Additionally, she is experienced in the supervision of full and part-time clinical and macro social workers, supervisors, volunteers, and interns, and holds the National Association of Social Workers’ Certificate in Core Supervision. She has advanced training in ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and other trauma care, Restorative Practices, and Association of Fundraising Professionals training (with a history of successful work in grant writing and fund development). She has experience as both a recipient and provider of in-depth coaching, training and education for individuals, groups, and organizations, on the topics of anti-racism and cultural responsiveness and nonprofit leadership.
Affiliations: Imani ya Kupinga – Faith in Resistance
Noel Regulus Spring, LMSW (they/he)
Accountability Steward*
Noel is a white, ace, trans Millennial who practices somatic therapy at his private practice in Detroit, Apricity Abounding LLC. Noel specializes in care for people who have experienced complex trauma, and believes that if he can recover, you can too.
Noel is proud to have an undergraduate degree in Women’s and Gender Studies that built the foundation of their commitment to anti-oppressive practice and liberation for human and non-human animals. In their hometown of South Bend, Indiana, Noel poured themself into grassroots organizing around reproductive justice and abortion access. During their MSW, Noel focused their research around best practices to support survivors of sex trafficking, and studied abroad in Kolkata, India where they were deeply inspired and humbled in their learning about empowerment models by and for sex trafficking survivors.
Prior to opening his practice, Noel worked in community mental health and at a non-profit organization. These experiences taught him ALOT about the ways that organizational power dynamics in the mental health world often reflect the same Imperialist drive for power and control that creates and feeds both structural and interpersonal oppression, abuse, and exploitation. He is critical of the Mental Health Industrial Complex, and passionate about supporting healers of all types to have choice and agency over their work, which is why he co-founded a professional collective called Healer’s Choice to drive that mission. He dreams of a world where more healers are empowered to believe that they can create something better for themselves, the people they accompany in healing, and the communities they live in.
Noel loves face tattoos, tromping through the meadows at Palmer Park with his dog, and reading in bed with his four cats.
Affiliations: Apricity Abounding LLC, Healer’s Choice
*As Accountability Stewards, identified Board Members are personally available to clients who need support in addressing harm or ethical violations they could experience in the course of their work with our care providers. By inviting members of our Board of Directors to directly monitor grievances of this nature, we entrust them with holding us accountable to the highest possible standards of ethical practice, and to supporting us to directly acknowledge and address any harm we might do in the course of our work.
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