ABOUT

Danielle A. Stewart

Danielle A. Stewart, Ed.D, MBA, BA is the President of iChange Collaborative. She is an innovative leader, organizer, educator, facilitator, and curriculum design expert in transformative racial equity education. She co-founded iChange’s first Summer Diversity Institute for Educators in 2013 and has facilitated virtual affinity groups for people of color ever since. In addition to developing iChange, she established The Community Empowerment Foundation and In School Spirit to ignite positive school academic outcomes for students of color and pursue continued research in improving their experiences in school. In addition to her love of teaching and learning, her passion is fulfilled when using her creative skills in a variety of ways, in order to give back to the community. Danielle currently resides in Atlanta, GA.

Martha Caldwell

Martha draws on the power of story to make the psychological dimensions of social identities visible. She has facilitated hundreds of conversations about race, gender, and social class experience with thousands of professionals. Her interactive, inquiry-based teaching style incorporates social emotional learning, identity formation theory, and ethics to achieve results that enhance empathy, inspire innovative thinking, and catalyze leadership development.

Martha’s articles on inclusive best practices have appeared in Independent Schools Magazine, Greater Good Magazine, Youth Today, Middle School Journal, and EdWeek. She is a co-author of Let’s Get Real: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender Identities in the Classroom, Facilitating Conversations about Race, and Gender and Sexuality: An Educator’s Guide.

Treava Milton

Treava Milton is an organizational development professional, teacher and advisor, committed to healthy organizations, explorative education and flourishing family life. Her global commitment is to foundational principles for building healthy systems.
Treava’s background in administration, education and change management-related roles spans 20 years. Early roles in non-profit operations subsequently earned her a Community Service Citation from the City of New York. In latter directorial faculty roles, Treava co-coordinated robust diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at St. Andrew’s School, co-authoring Introduction to Community Life (designed to introduce new students to diverse communities); co-created and administered Navigating the Demands of Independent School Culture for A Better Chance (a pre-entry workshop designed to prepare young women of color for the Independent School space); collaborated with faculty, students, staff and volunteer colleagues on myriad community service projects.
Treava also taught (English), coached (Volleyball), and advised 9th grade girls. She also consults on foundational infrastructure-related projects with organizations in Birmingham, AL. Her credentials include an honors MS in Organizational Leadership from Nyack College, BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and certificate of attendance from the Bread Loaf School of English.

Oman Frame

Oman Frame has more than twenty years of experience in teaching and diversity leadership. He is a gifted motivator and educator who combines real world topics with academic rigor to makes learning personally meaningful. Oman conducts professional workshops in diversity, equity and inclusion issues at conferences and in schools around the nation. He creates curriculum that helps educators and students understand the effects of oppression on underserved communities and inspires commitment to social justice. Oman directs diversity, equity and inclusion efforts for the Paideia School in Atlanta, GA, where he also teaches sociology. He is active in coordinating Race Day, an annual full-day program that gives voice to the unique experiences of students of color in schools, and Gender Day, a day of focus on the struggle for gender equity. Oman was featured in Ned Hollowell’s Positively ADD: Real Success Stories to Inspire Your Dreams and has been an 11 Alive News Teacher of the week.

Eddy Hernández

Eddy Hernández has twenty-five years experience in education. He is the Assistant Dean of Students at the Paideia School in Atlanta, GA, where he teaches courses in LGBTQ history; language, culture and history for Spanish heritage speakers; and Modern Languages, including French; Spanish; and Italian. Eddy also develops and implements student programming, including Race Day and Gender Day. He also advises Paideia’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance student group and is a faculty liaison for the LGBTQ Parent Organization. He presents his workshop “Talking about LGBT issues in Schools” at professional conferences and for faculties and staff in schools. Eddy has facilitated professional development training for educators in race, gender and sexuality issues for the past eight years with iChange. He also facilitates our LGBTQ Educators Resource Group.

José Cordero

José Cordero has twenty years experience teaching early elementary school. He develops diversity enrichment curriculum for younger elementary students, primarily five and six-year-olds. His curriculum units include: talking about race and gender using picture books, teaching slavery through stories of resistance; a inclusive social curricula based on Vivian Paley’s “You Can’t Say You Can’t Play;” and Puerto Rican history and cooking. He is the author of a series of story books designed to build empathy in his students. José is also a gifted musician and incorporates music from around the world into his classroom. He has a published CD of sing-a-long songs for children that features songs of the Civil Rights Movement. Outside the classroom José is a Floortime play therapy and Tomatis practitioner who works with individuals on the autism spectrum to increase capacity for interaction. He is a teaching consultant with Emory University’s Social Emotional and Ethical (SEE) Learning curriculum, a faculty group facilitator trained in the Critical Friends Group method of professional learning and community development, and has facilitated affinity groups for international and mixed racial family adoptees at the People of Color Conference.

Wendy Rose

Wendy Rose has 30 years of experience in business consulting and development. She has worked as a consultant for major corporations including Pfizer, Intercontinental Hotels, Siemens, and Georgia-Pacific. Ms. Rose has started her own company and been involved in a number of startup companies. She has extensive experience in financial management, work management, contract administration, communication management, marketing, and sales management. She holds a degree in business administration from Northeastern University.

Chuck Cogliandro

Chuck is a graduate of General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) with a degree in electrical engineering. After a couple years full time with GM as a project engineer, he took a leave and decided to follow his passion in music and drumming and has been happy as a musician, music instructor and drum carver, concentrating in West African percussion music for almost 30 years. Chuck is also trained in several complementary medicine and healing modalities; he holds a 4-year certificate from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and a 3-year certificate in Family Constellations and has a private practice. Since 2016 Chuck has been active in social justice and racial healing with Coming to the Table, both as a local group co-facilitator and on the board of advisors of the national organization. He dedicates this work to the creation of a more just and truthful society. Chuck lives in Lithonia, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, on the edge of an oak forest with his wife Kelly, two cats, and five chickens.

Kelly Lyn

Kelly’s active journey as anti-racist began at an Outward Bound
training in 2003. She has worked since then to uncover her unconscious bias, to become more effective when talking to racism skeptics, and to grow as a facilitator of brave spaces for young people and adults. She is a co-facilitator of Coming to The Table Atlanta and iChange Collaborative, and she has been a coach for David Campt’s Effective Engagement School. Kelly’s career path as an educator began in 1997 and has followed her vision for what is possible in the world, rather than the expected. The beauty of her journey has been a wide variety of opportunities to grow and give in multiple contexts. She has been a university professor, an Outward Bound Instructor, a life and career coach, an assistant principal of a middle school, and is currently the STEAM coordinator for a K-8 independent school. No matter who the students are or where a class is held – in a classroom, online, or in the wilderness – she believes in the power of inclusive, integrated, immersive, and hands-on learning to support effective social interactions and an engaged learning environment.