White and Black Women Archetypes

Cyndi Suarez is the former president and editor-in-chief of NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly). She is author of "The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics", in which she outlines a new theory and practice of liberatory power. Suarez has worked as a strategy and innovation consultant with a focus on networks and platforms for social movements. She has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector—in community-based, advocacy, organizing, consulting, infrastructure, and philanthropic organizations. She is passionate about elegant design and designing for power. Her studies were in feminist theory and organizational development for social change.

Dr. Yanique Redwood is the author of "White Women Cry" & "Call Me Angry: A Black Woman’s Memoir on Racism in Philanthropy."

Kerrien Suarez is president and CEO of Equity In The Center, a fieldwide initiative to influence social sector leaders to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to achieve racial equity. In 2018, EIC published the influential report Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture. Suarez is a management consultant with over 20 years of experience leading engagements to refine programs and scale impact for national nonprofits and philanthropies. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has been a fellow and lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Whitney Parnell is the founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps. Her movement work involves racial justice efforts and equipping effective allies through truth telling, bridge building, empathy, and action. Parnell is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where she majored in English and Spanish and minored in communications and journalism. She served with Americorps and worked in the houselessness field before founding Service Never Sleeps, in 2015.