
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 LMSW
Board Vice President
Occupation
Care Coordination Quartz Health Solutions
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
Occupation
Retired Educator
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

Loucresie Rupert MD
Board of Directors
Occupation
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
CEO of Insightful Consultant
Favorite Quote
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—. I took the one less traveled by,. And that has made all the difference…”
Robert Frost

Carolyn Colleen Bostrack, PhD, MBA
Board of Directors
Occupation
Owner Acton Academy Midwest
Founder Fierce Foundation
Favorite Quote
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like life, I’ll rise.”
Maya Angelou

Quartell “Q” Roberson
Board of Directors
Occupation
Family & Cultural Connections Coordinator (Cultural Liaison) School District of La Crosse
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

Travis John Bordeau
Board of Directors
Occupation
Sales Account Manager, Radisson Hotel La Crosse
Favorite Quote
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing and what sort of person you are.”
C.S. Lewis

Andrew C. Bakkum
Board of Directors
Occupation
Vice President | Wealth Management Banker US Bank La Crosse
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

Andrew Alvaro Rasmussen
Board Secretary (non-officio)
Occupation
Operations & Development Associate BLACK Inc.
Favorite Quote
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
Octavia Butler
Interested in joining the board or have a question for us?
Contact us and we’d be happy to chat!