Is What Liberation Looks Like

Alex Miller is a passionate advocate for racial and gender justice. Before becoming a project coordinator at Be the Change, Alex worked in early childhood education and youth development, where she designed programming that prioritized racial equity to build safe, inclusive communities. A key part of Alex’s approach to program design and coordination is noticing a lack of culturally relevant information and working with her community to address how to fill the gaps. Alex is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Through her research, Alex hopes to address the gap in historical representation of Black Trans figures by preserving the histories and kinship of Black Queer and Trans people in the United States. When she is not working, you can find Alex hyping up her daughter’s gymnastics skills, doing puzzles, visiting local libraries, and having dance parties with her family.

Kelsey Rogoff is a program manager at Be the Change Consulting. Kelsey has over a decade of youth development and instructional experience ranging from teaching highschool and enrichments. During her time as an educator, she cultivated a classroom culture that uplifted her student’s leadership skills and broadened their social justice analysis. Post pandemic, she augmented her curriculum to support student and families mental health and wellness needs, and supported tutoring to close learning gaps. As a second generation chicana from Boyle Heights Kelsey leverages her lived experiences to ensure underserved communities have the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to thrive. In her free time, will you find Kelsey in the gym, coaching Crossfit and being your biggest hype woman.

 Lauren they/them supports a diverse client portfolio in youth development, systems change, antiracist capacity building, strategic planning, and facilitation. Lauren brings 17 years of direct client servicing, project/speaker bureau management, coaching, and education to their work. They have a holistic antiracist analytical approach for individual/ group think dynamics and can transmute organizational information into a meaningful story.

Sangita Kumar is the founder and principal of Be the Change Consulting, LLC, a results-based organizational development firm located in Oakland, CA. Sangita oversees a team of 13 to support a diverse client portfolio in systems reform, change management, capacity building, program development, strategic planning, and curriculum design.

Sangita is a proud first-generation leader respected for her ability to wed technical training to a trauma-informed facilitation approach that motivates teams to reimagine workplace culture and practices. Sangita brings 15 years of experience in Project Management, Organizational Assessment, Instructional Design, and Facilitation. Her passion for racial equity drives the firm’s service model.