Board of Directors
EBONY ROSS
Board Chair | (she/her)
Ebony Ross is a Coach and Consultant who partners with social justice leaders, organizers, and movement builders to provide thought partnership, leadership development, and organizational development strategies that connect heart, vision, and strategy. She has spent three decades working collaboratively to support and build beloved communities, creating and facilitating communities of practice, fellowships, and cohorts that provide learning resources and strategies for healing, love, and connection. Ebony is an experiential trainer and organizational strategist with extensive experience facilitating and leading large-scale change and emergent strategy initiatives, creating and implementing year-long fellowships and cohorts, and leading collective impact and community mobilization projects. She brings warmth and a decisive nature to her work and loves to cook delicious food for the people she loves. She secretly thinks that she should be a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and enjoys long walks with her partner and dogs.
CLARA LONG
Secretary | (she/her)
Clara is the Director of Policy and Organizing at Human Impact Partners (HIP). She is a strategist, advocate, organizer, and human rights lawyer who works to build power with social movements for the intertwined goals of community safety, economic security, housing justice, and climate justice. Prior to her work at HIP, Clara was the Associate Director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch, contributing to campaigns to abolish the immigration detention system, transform border policies that criminalize and abuse migrants, and bring back people deported to harm in the racially discriminatory deportation machine, among others. She has taught human rights law and advocacy at the University of California Berkeley and Stanford University and additionally holds master's degrees in communication as well as environment and development.
JON GODBOUT
Treasurer | (he/him)
Jon is the Director of Programs & International Development at Builders of Hope. In addition to his work at Builders of Hope, Jon also co-founded iBuild Global and manages the deployment of the iBuild app and services into new markets. Prior to Builders of Hope, he served as a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM within their Public Sector Strategy and Analytics department where he specialized in project management, strategic planning, data analytics, and process improvement. He worked with diverse clients, including the United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, and various other governments helping them to overcome logistics challenges. He graduated from Colby College in 2008 with a BA in International Economics. He has a high degree of enthusiasm for addressing problems associated with social inequality, economic sustainability, and extreme poverty. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.