ENMASSE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founder
• Principal Consultant

Albert E. Smith Jr., Founder/Principal Consultant at en masse, delivers 15 years of expertise in leading global diversity and inclusion efforts and human resources transformations for multinational organizations, nonprofits, and governments. Albert E. Smith Jr., Founder/Principal Consultant at en masse, delivers more than 15 years of expertise in leading global diversity and inclusion efforts and human resources transformations for multinational organizations, nonprofits, and governments. A collaborative, strategic, and results-oriented leader, Smith is an organizational learning and development practitioner, global diversity and inclusion strategist, movement intellectual, and keynote presenter and facilitator. His professional services and practice specialties have helped organizations including American Airlines, Bose, Target, Live Nation, Pew Research Center, Toyota, Silicon Valley Bank, Morgan Stanley, EMD Serono, QVC, Oracle, PVH, Pen America, U.S. Capitol Architect, FCB Global, Pegasystems, Saatchi Wellness, Publicis, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services engage more than 1 million employees in diversity and inclusion efforts. His service focus areas include coaching, plenary and group facilitation, strategic leadership development, culture audits and needs assessment, curriculum design and delivery, and enterprise-wide systems integration. Trained in black cultural studies, queer theory, religious studies, ethics, and critical race studies, Smith has studied at Oxford University, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University. Today, he leverages his academic and professional expertise to help for-profit leaders and the nation's leading voices in activism transform equity commitments into results for executives, employees, and citizens across the world. A fierce and unapologetic advocate for those "behind glass walls," Smith's experience has included leading diversity and inclusion efforts for billion-dollar organizations, developing agency-wide strategy for federal entities like the National Institute of Health, and delivering facilitating keynotes and trainings for the National Parent Teacher Association and the Royal Bank of Canada. A road warrior, art collector, style aficionado, master storyteller, and by some accounts, an "angelic troublemaker," Smith has a natural knack for words and a mastery for understanding what big audacious ideas will help organizations win the future.

An energetic and creative leader, Charlie prides himself on his ability to solve problems. He is a practiced inclusive leader and an expert storyteller with over 10 years of experience in strategic marketing, branding, and communications. His professional work also encompasses workshop creation and facilitation, public speaking, and data-based insights/strategic analysis. To Charlie, effective messaging goes beyond the written and spoken word-or what is said-and is most closely tied to what is done. He finds messages are only as effective as how clearly they reflect emotional responses to tangible actions and experiences. Charlie champions the pursuit of equality at an individual level through the practice of inclusive leadership as a means to combat microaggressions and unconscious bias, and his conversations and workshops reflect this notion. Charlie holds degrees from Georgetown University and Arizona State University and has worked with commercial, nonprofit, association, media, and federal government clients in his professional career. In addition to his role at en masse, Charlie leads the marketing and communications arm of Taoti Creative, a Washington, D.C.-based full-service creative agency.

Job Titles:

• Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Justin S. Hopkins is a licensed clinical psychologist in the District of Columbia, where he operates a psychotherapy practice for adolescents, adults, and couples, and is a consultant for en masse Consulting. His educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Hampton University, a Masters and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Regent University, and postdoctoral study at George Washington University. Dr. Hopkins works with a wide array of concerns including depression and anxiety, relationship and familial issues, communication skills-building, and work and academic stress. In addition, his practice specializes in trauma-informed care for marginalized and minority status individuals. His expertise in trauma is shaped by his work experience on the PTSD Clinical Teams of the Hampton and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. In addition, as a Staff Psychologist at Georgetown University Law Center, Dr. Hopkins provided lectures on secondary trauma to the staff of law clinics, as they offered pro bono legal services to communities in need. An expert in gender-, racial- and LGBTQ-related oppression, Dr. Hopkins uses his clinical expertise and academic knowledge to advise corporations on addressing societal traumas, confronting oppressive norms, and fostering equity and inclusion in the workplace. He further provides keynote speaking, group facilitation and trainings on the intersection of trauma and identity formation, and sustainable emotional growth.

Earnest is a forward-thinking human resources executive with a track record of success in driving transformation and delivering impact and outcomes for high-growth startups, Fortune 500, and public organizations. Prior to tech, Earnest served as Director of Human Resources for an educational non-profit where he implemented HR across the entire organization as their first HR executive. Previous to this organization Earnest was at the Cambridge Housing Authority where he was the youngest HR executive in the organization's history. Earnest also worked for the Boston Public Schools (BPS) as their Human Capital School Business Partner. Earnest received his BA in Psychology from Roger Williams University and recently completed the Next Generation Executive Leadership Program with the Partnership located in Boston, MA. Earnest is located in Washington, DC.

Job Titles:

• Founder and Executive Director of for Freedom 's Sake
• Writer

Frank Leon Roberts is an American activist, writer, political commentator, and college professor known for his involvement in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Roberts is currently a faculty member at The New School. In 2015, Roberts course "Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest" received national attention for being one of the first such courses offered on a university campus. He has been a frequent media commentator on issues related to the intersections of race and gender in American public life. A community organizer and public speaker, Roberts's varied perspectives on #BlackLivesMatter's influence on public debates about race and racial inequity have been cited by The New York Times, BBC Radio, NBC, CBC, Univision, The Chronicle of Higher Education and a variety of national outlets. Roberts is also the founder and executive director of For Freedom's Sake, a New York City based grassroots social justice organization that mobilizes black and brown communities through teach-ins and public dialogues. He is a 2019 Roddenberry Foundation Fellow.

Margareth J. Bennett is a diversity and inclusion practitioner and equal employment and affirmative action administrator with over 35 years in the Federal Government sector and 28 years in diversity programs, equal employment opportunity, and civil rights. Margareth joined the Goddard Space Flight Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in September 2015 as the Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity. Prior to NASA, Margareth served as Director of the Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Division at the National Institutes of Health. Within EDI, Margareth supervised an organization with over 20 full-time employees and contractors and managed an operating and programming budget of $8M.

Monique Moultrie, Ph.D.Dr. Moultrie's scholarly pursuits include projects in sexual ethics, African American religions, and gender and sexuality studies. Her research has been supported by a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Grant, a GSU Dean's Early Career Award, and an American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant. Her book Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women's Sexuality was published by Duke University Press in December 2017. Her forthcoming research is a book-length study of black lesbian religious leadership and faith activism. Her recent publications include a co-edited volume A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z, 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmillan 2014); an article, "Putting a Ring on It: Black Women, Black Churches and Coerced Monogamy" in the Black Theology (2018) journal; a book chapter "Black Female Sexual Agency and Racialized Holy Sex in Black Christian Reality TV Shows" edited by Mara Einstein, Katherine Madden, and Diane Winston (Routledge 2018); an article "#BlackBabiesMatter: Analyzing Black Religious Media in Conservative and Progressive Evangelical Communities" in the Religions (2017) journal; a book chapter "Critical Race Theory," in Religion: Embodied Religion edited by Kent Brintnall (Palgrave Macmillan 2016): 341-358; and an article "After the Thrill is Gone: Married to the Holy Spirit but Still Sleeping Alone," in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 33 (2011): 237-253. Outside of the university, Dr. Moultrie was a consultant for the National Institutes of Health and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender-Religious Archives Network. She is a Content Development working group member for Columbia University's Center on African-American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice's Scholars Group, a group of religious scholars collaborating at the intersection of religion and reproductive justice. Within the larger American Academy of Religion guild, Dr. Moultrie is the Status of Women in the Profession Chair and a former co-chair of the Religion and Sexuality unit.

Ravi K. Perry, a native of Toledo, Ohio, holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University, each in political science. Dr. Perry is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University. An expert on Black politics, minority representation, urban politics, American public policy, and LGBT candidates of color, Dr. Perry is the editor of 21st Century Urban Race Politics: Representing Minorities as Universal Interests, a book that discusses the efforts of African American, Latino and Asian mayors to represent the interests of minorities in historically White cities in the United States. His second book, entitled Black Mayors, White Majorities: The Balancing Act of Racial Politics, focuses on the challenges Black mayors face in representing Black interests in majority White, medium-sized cities in the state of Ohio. His third book, published with his mother, is The Little Rock Crisis: What Desegregation Politics Says About Us. In it, Perry and Perry frame the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories - individual and collective - have motivated Little Rockians for social and political action and engagement.

Job Titles:

• Consultant
• Editor
• Consultant and Project Director With En Masse Consulting

Stephanie Gilmore (she/her) is an activist, editor, consultant, and award-winning author and educator. In 2020, she founded Formore Editorial Services, a boutique and highly select editorial firm. Its mission to assist those who have been marginalized by white hetero-supremacy in the publishing world by shaping ideas into words; words into proposals, articles, or manuscripts; and manuscripts into represented books in the marketplace. She achieves this mission by working with some of the most provocative thinkers and writers in our time: people who are writing usable histories for an inclusive and forward-thinking future; people who are unafraid of challenging us to think bigger and broader; people who push to the edge of knowledge and from the precipice, recenter the lives and stories of those who may not appear in the annals of history books and archives but whose very bodies and lives shaped the word in which we live today. To diversity and inclusion work, Stephanie brings attention to the naming and disempowering of white supremacy. She also focuses analytical attention to the concept and experience of "belonging" - to bring and be accepted and accommodated for one's whole self, undivided. Through decades of qualitative research on sexual violence on college campuses, she has delivered informative, timely, and powerful to over 50 universities. She currently consults with Fortune 500 companies to assess their diversity and inclusion reports before publication; she also provides one-on-one consultation for how to prepare reports and analyze D&I data. Prior to her work as a Consultant and Project Director with en masse Consulting, Stephanie taught at selective liberal arts colleges, edited 7 academic journals (in one capacity or another, and often several capacities at once), and advised feminists, queer people, and people of the global majority through her intersectional feminist and antiracist methodologies in American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. She is the editor of Feminist Coalition and the author of Groundswell; both books have been highly acclaimed by academic and lay readers alike. She has also published numerous academic and public articles on reproductive justice in Alabama, antiracist feminism, and student activism. The Feminist Wire named her a "Feminist We Love" and-being loved remains her greatest and most humbling honor.