Shannon Sullivan
FOUNDER
Shannon loves podcasts, reading, and the days when she doesn’t get called because of what her kids did at school. She was the founding Executive Director of the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance and has been consulting with non-profits full-time for the past 8 years. She partners with clients to articulate big questions and design innovative and effective processes to address them through research, facilitation, and outcome development. Shannon also provides conflict resolution and culture-building services as a trained mediator and circle-keeper. She is an activist for criminal legal system reform and racial justice. Please check out her other passion at www.interrogatingwhiteness.org.
SooJi Min-Maranda
SooJi Min-Maranda believes in the power of personal stories. Whether providing direct services, advocating for policy change, or fundraising for nonprofit organizations, Min-Maranda begins with personal narratives that illustrate the need for programs, policies, and resources that raise the voices of those underserved and underrepresented in mainstream society. A seasoned nonprofit executive with nearly 20 years of senior management experience, she advocates for strategic partnerships and efficient, effective resource allocation. Min-Maranda is also an experienced executive coach who offers individualized coaching support that is grounded in empathy and deep listening to attend to the whole person. As a coach, SooJi creates brave spaces for her clients to process and apply adaptive approaches to leading one self and others from the inside out. Working in partnership, she will help the individual reflect on key learnings, use a racial equity and gender lens to problem solving, and hone in on the systems and structures needed to embody their authentic leadership style with confidence, clarity, and courage.
Daniel Jones
Daniel (Danny) Jones is the coordinator of the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) and a skilled and expert facilitator who co-facilitated both the Ending Perpetual Punishment convening and the 2019 Unlock the Box convening toward abolishing solitary confinement. After being illegally sentenced to life without parole as a juvenile, Danny returned home in March of 2019 ready to continue to work on the criminal justice system from the outside.