Kyle Jacobs uses his talent for media and technology as a tool for more inclusive conversation about sustainability and environmentalism.

He's a graduate of Virginia State University and Columbia University.

His journey didn't start off rosy. He made it through abuse and the criminal justice system, all with help and support from Black women.

Chauncey was raised in Ohio, earned her bachelor's in Georgia, and launched her career as a Mississippi Delta Corps Member of Teach for America. She comes from a family that prioritizes education. Her grandfather is a doctor and her grandmother has a masters in social work, achieving that success when it was much harder for Black people to even go to college.

Although she faced high expectations and reached them, she knew there was more to her than degrees and titles.

She followed that intuition to Ghana, where she started to prioritize herself for the first time and continued applying lessons she learned from therapy, including inner child work.


Identities: Black-American, Black woman, woman of color, daughter
Profession: higher education, education policy
Themes: inner child work, self-care, travel

Victoria is a first-generation Asian American who has never taken any opportunity for granted. Her curiosity and tenacity led her to graduate from high school early and from college early, the University of Utah’s Eccles School of Business. Still, her road was far from what is expected. Her passion for education has her pursuing a career in academia while navigating being expected to be a "model minority" and managing mental health.

• Identities: Asian-American, woman of color, daughter, first generation, queer
• Profession: higher education
• Themes: mental health, tokenism, model minority