
Our Board of Directors

Shaundel Spivey
Executive Director & Co-Founder of BLACK Inc.
Favorite Quote
“Until the lions have their own historians, The Hunter will always be the victor.”
-African Proverb

Jazzma Holland
Co-Founder of BLACK Inc., & Board President
Occupation
Edgewood College Assistant Director of Student Diversity Equity and Inclusion Programming &, Host of AllThatJazz Podcast
Favorite Quote
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never realize how amazing you can be.”
Maya Angelou

Ebony Hyter
Board Vice President
Favorite Quote
“If you are not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who being oppressed and loving the people doing oppressing.”
Malcolm X

Veeda Walker
Board of Directors
Favorite Quote
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position in life, as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington

Angelica Williams MS, LPC, SAC-IT
Board of Directors
Occupation
Integrated Care Therapist (Behavioral Health Consultant) at Gundersen Family Medicine La Crosse
Favorite Quote
“You are your best thing.”
Toni Morrison

Quartell “Q” Roberson
Board of Directors
Favorite Quote
“Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you, let them make you even hungrier to succeed.”
Michelle Obama

Andrew Alvaro Rasmussen
Board Secretary (non-officio)
Occupation
Operations & Development Associate BLACK Inc.
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
Octavia Butler

Andrew C. Bakkum
Board of Directors
Favorite Quote
“There are three ways in which one can deal with injustice. One can accept it without protest. One can seek to avoid it. One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.”
Bayard Rustin
Interested in joining the board or have a question for us?
Contact us and we’d be happy to chat!