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AAAG – Members

The African American Ambassadors Group is a grassroots group of community leaders who protect, uplifts, celebrates, and empowers the African American community in Providence by developing and advancing the City of Providence policies that dismantle oppressive systems and extinguish racial, social, and economic equity gaps for African Americans.

Members of this group have created and follow these guiding principles:

  • Attack the Issue not the Person
  • Bring your community with you
  • State views and ask genuine questions
  • Share all relevant information
  • Use specific examples and agree on what important words mean
  • Explain reasoning and intent
  • Focus on interests, not positions
  • Test assumptions and inferences
  • Jointly design next steps
  • Discuss undiscussable issues
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Collaborate internally and externally
  • Be decisive and bold
  • Maintain transparency
  • Be accountable to each other and to our communities
  • Members of the AAAG, when expressing their concerns, will refrain from speaking on behalf of the group or individual group members without the express consent of the group or group member

African American Ambassador Subgroups

Education Reform

Police Advisory

Housing Insecurity/Eviction Defense

Internal Policy Reform

Youth Voice

Mental Wellness

Food Insecurities

Members

Alice Dele – CEO, Msaliceinspires, LLC
Anita Bruno – Founder, RI Women in the trades/ Carpenter local 330
Annette Alves – Federal Hill House
Anthony Carrion – Dean of Students, Nowell Leadership Academy
Brooke Waldron
Caterina Cable – Community member
Cedric Huntley – Executive Director, Nonviolence Institute
Celeste Johnson – Community member
Chase Baptista – Providence Public School District
Charles Newton – Administrator, State of RI
Cheryl Galloway – The MET School
Cheryl Isom-Wie – Director, The MET School, Coordinator, Consultant and facilitator at STEM Based Education
Corey Brown – Providence Police Officer, Community Mentor, WE GOT NEXT
Cris Potter – Founder, Red Rooster Solutions
Crisolita Figueiredo – Community and Political Activist
Damali Metts-Ferruzola –
Deborah Harris – D.A.R.E
Denise Debarros
Desmond Ranglin
DJ Rukiz – The Juice 88.9 online radio
Doug Victor – South Side Community Land Trust
Dwayne Boo Hackney
Elise Swearingen
Enrique Sanchez – BLM RI PAC, Reclaim RI, Prov DSA, Rhode Island Socialists, PSL RI
Georgina Sarpong – Co-owner,Abundance Farms, Black Lives Biz
Gerald Perkins – Owner, Dominion Pest Control
Gina Fisher-Cook
Dr. Hume Johnson -CEO and Brand Strategy Partner at Hume Johnson Consulting LLC,RWU
Jacob Brier
James Monteiro
Jamiere Wilson
Jennifer Hopgood
Jessica Brown
Jessica Vega – City Counsel Ward 5, Central Falls
Joseph Bruce – Artist
Joshua Franco
Juan Cameron
Julius Kolawole
Justin Russillo
Kathleen Egersheim – Awakening Church
Keith Stokes – Rhode Island Black Heritage Society/1696 Heritage Group
Kenya Fullen – Dept of human services
Kendra Ault – College Unbound
Kenia Richards – Clinical Therapist, Community member
Kie Hamrick – Community member
Latifat Odetunde
Marchae Belcher – Community member
Marco McWilliams -Founder PBSS, Center for Reconciliation, the Swearer Center Brown University, College Unbound
Mary Beth Meehan
Michael Shepherd – City of Providence Staff
Nico Page
Nicole da Cruz
Pamela Hughes – Mount Hope Cowboys
Regina Clement – Delta Sigma Theta-Prov Alum
Richard Hemphill
Rochanda Delves- Community member
Sade Lee – Community member
Sonia Thomas – Dunamis Synergy, West Elmwood Housing Development Corp
Taritha Hill-Cooper – Simply Mom, Inc
Teresa Guaba Community member
Theresa Guzmán Stokes – Rhode Island Black Heritage Society/1696 Heritage Group
Tiarra Mack – RI State Senate District 6
Wayne Montague – WINN Residential