Meet Cohort 1
With a vision for building something meaningful, our founder brings a blend of big-picture thinking and hands-on experience. They set the tone for everything we do.
Darlene de la Cruz
Leiry Santos is an administrator at NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, where I work to support inclusive spaces that elevate students of underrepresented backgrounds. She loves history and finds safeguarding our shared stories as central to both her work and identity.
Leiry Santos
Álvaro Ramírez is a senior year philosophy student in the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), from the Dominican Republic, as well as a research assistant of urban planning and black geographies research regarding his home country. He's currently studying Dominican intellectual history in the mid twentieth century.