Creating Safe Spaces

Originally, from the Bronx, NY, Alexandra Nicole has decades of experience within operations, marketing, and logistics. She holds a wealth of knowledge of navigating a variety of spaces having worked for Fortune 500 companies, global logistics operations, and, now, her role within the public sector. Her educational background includes bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Business. Her graduate background includes an MBA and a certification in nonprofit management. Currently, she is completing her Master’s in Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Natalya Davis is Vice President at independent record label Pick Six Records. As a veteran executive, Davis has garnered wide success in the music industry in her formidable 15+ year career. She has worked on campaigns for artists including Beyoncé, J. Cole, John Legend, Maxwell and Rita Ora.

Upon graduating from Harvard College, Davis worked as a management trainee at Epic Records/Sony Music. Over an eight-year period sat Sony, she earned four promotions within the US and International marketing departments concluding her time as a global product manager at Columbia Records.

Davis has consulted with artist management companies including Turn First and Benchmark Entertainment. At Paradigm Talent Agency, she was instrumental in the development of the Artist Strategy team and featured on Billboard’s Hip Hop Power Player list in 2019.

In addition to her career in music, Davis has a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She also serves as a labor doula.

Kasara E. Davidson, Esq. is the Founder and Managing Director of Diaspora Travel & Trade. She has almost 15 years of corporate legal experience and over 20 years of consulting experience in business development and program/project development and management. Throughout her career she has been dedicated to socially responsible business practices and therefore has an understanding of business entities beyond their products and services, and an appreciation of their potential beyond their profit margin.

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Alissa Mayers is a graduate of Brown University with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Africana Studies. Her graduate work focused on Rehabilitation Counseling and Counseling Psychology, earning Masters degrees from The George Washington University and the University of Maryland, respectively. While at the University of Maryland she with youth and families and educational opportunity programs. Her focus was to understand the psychological factors that contributed to student achievement and create programs to meed students at their point of need. Working at Pre-College Programs at the University of Maryland as the Research Coordinator started her off in the direction of educational outreach and she now works with the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University as the Public Programs Manager where she continues that work. Additionally, she has a deep love and appreciation for baking and culinary arts and created an online bakery called Born and Bread. She specializes in premium home-style desserts and supplies desserts for other commercial businesses. She has been able to combine her love of baking and educational and enrichment based programming during the pandemic by developing mindful baking classes with a good friend who is a mindfulness consultant for teacher and student leadership and wellness.