Our Board of Directors
Shaundel Washington-Spivey
Executive Director & Co-Founder of BLACK Inc.
Favorite Quote
“Until the lions have their own historians, The Hunter will always be the victor.”
-African Proverb
Quartell “Q” Roberson
Board of Directors President
Occupation
Family & Cultural Connections Coordinator (Cultural Liaison) School District of La Crosse
Favorite Quote
“Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you, let them make you even hungrier to succeed.”
Michelle Obama
Ebony Hyter LMSW
Board of Directors Vice President
Occupation
Care Coordination Quartz Health Solutions
Favorite Quote
“If you are not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who being oppressed and loving the people doing oppressing.”
Malcolm X
Terrell Mallett
Board of Directors Treasurer
Occupation
Business Banking Relationship Manager | U.S. Bank
Favorite Quote
“There are two rules in life: Number 1, never quit! Number 2, never forget rule number one.”
Duke Ellington
Jazzma Holland
Board of Directors & Co-Founder of BLACK Inc.
Occupation
CEO of All That Jazz Podcast
Assistant Director for Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programming, Edgewood College
Favorite Quote
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never realize how amazing you can be.”
Maya Angelou
Loucresie Rupert MD
Board of Directors
Occupation
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
CEO of Insightful Consultant
Favorite Quote
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—. I took the one less traveled by,. And that has made all the difference…”
Robert Frost
Carolyn Colleen Bostrack, PhD, MBA
Board of Directors
Occupation
Owner Acton Academy Midwest
Founder Fierce Foundation
Favorite Quote
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like life, I’ll rise.”
Maya Angelou
Travis John Bordeau
Board of Directors
Occupation
Sales Account Manager, Radisson Hotel La Crosse
Favorite Quote
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing and what sort of person you are.”
C.S. Lewis
Heather Quackenboss
Board of Directors
Occupation
Human Development and Relationships Educator (UW Madison Division of Extension, La Crosse County)
Favorite Quote
“Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.”
Audre Lorde
Andrew C. Bakkum
Board of Directors
Occupation
Vice President | Wealth Management Banker US Bank La Crosse
Favorite Quote
“There are three ways in which one can deal with injustice. One can accept it without protest. One can seek to avoid it. One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.”
Bayard Rustin
Andrew Alvaro Rasmussen
Board Secretary (non-officio)
Occupation
Operations & Development Associate BLACK Inc.
Favorite Quote
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
Octavia Butler
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