Our Team
Dr. Beverly Wright
Founder & Executive Director
Dr. Beverly L. Wright is an award-winning environmental justice scholar, advocate, author, civic leader, professor of Sociology, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), the first-ever environmental justice center in the United States. Under the Biden administration, Dr. Wright was appointed to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, where she advises on how the federal government can address current and historic environmental injustices.
Windy Beck
Water & Energy Justice Project Researcher
Amanda Bonam
Interim Network Manager, NBEJN
Kim Boyd
Executive Assistant to Dr. Beverly Wright
Celeste Cooper
Grants & Special Projects Manager
Kim Dunn
Technical Training Director, Worker Training Program
Simone English
Research Associate
Dr. Nicole Ford
Assistant Director of Operations & Training
Monique Harden
Director of Law & Policy and Community Engagement Program Mgr.
Ginger LeBlanc
Communications Director
Bruce McClue
Technical Training Mgr., Worker Training Program
Michelle Nwagwu
Evaluation Coordinator
Javonda Nix
Community & Student Engagement Program Mgr.
Olivia Lopez
Government Affairs & Community Engagement Manager
Rachel Capuchina-Pickens
Associate Director Law & Public Policy
Rhonda Smith
Finance & Operations Manager
Kim Sawyers
Salesforce Admin and Data Manager
Barbara Shelby
Wrap Around Service Facilitator, Worker Training Program
Michelle Wales
Director of Development & Grants Management
Mary Williams
Director of Community & Student Engagement
Dr. Danielle Wright
Navigate NOLA – Division Director
Della Wright
Director of Evaluation & Assistant Director of Navigate NOLA