Meet the Co-Directors and Mediators

Latoya Gayle

Co-Director

Latoya Gayle is a social entrepreneur currently and Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Boston Schools Fund and previously served as Executive Director for Boston School Finder. She was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Phenomenal Moms, a Boston-based organization that aimed to reduce educational, social, and economic opportunity and achievement gaps by increasing engagement in schools and communities among parents and families of color. Latoya is also a Racial Equity Strategist. Latoya is currently planning to launch a Policy and civic capacity lab where she hopes to support Black communities in building and sustaining bases of power that can create the changes they desire to make for the good of their children and communities. Latoya also co-direct Vital Villages' social justice mediation program

Jasmine Lee

Co-Director

Jasmine Lee is a recent graduate of the Masters in Public Health program at Boston University. Prior to her masters, she coordinated leadership and college mentoring programs at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. Jasmine also served as the Art Director of R Visions for Chinatown at the Chinese Progressive Association and directed temporary art interventions addressing gentrification and job shortages. In 2019, she trained as a mediator through Vital Village Network’s Social Justice Mediation Program (SJMP). Through her service pathway project, she co-facilitated workshops in collaboration with the Boston Public Health Commission’s Violence, Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Youth Organizing Institute as well as other community events. Jasmine recently joined the SJMP Leadership Team as a Co-Director alongside Latoya and Anusha.