Inaara works in non-profit organizations, supporting community-focused institutions working to make a direct impact in the lives of vulnerable communities, especially those experiencing housing and food insecurities. From serving in communications at the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to managing relational stewardship partnerships at local faith-based organizations, Inaara brings her marketing, fundraising, group facilitation, and events management skills to the projects she leads. Managing large teams, Inaara is skilled in implementing systems that initiate long-term, sustainable growth. Inaara is active within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the umbrella organization that encompasses 100+ Quaker meetings in the Mid-Atlantic region. Along with serving in numerous capacities at her local Meeting, she also serves as the Clerk of the Addressing Racial Wounding Committee for the Friends General Conference.

Inaara graduated from Harvard University with a Joint Bachelor of Art degree in History & Literature and Theater, Dance & Media, with a minor in South Asian studies and a language citation in Urdu/Hindi. Currently, Inaara resides in Philadelphia and serves as the Director of Advancement at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square. Inaara is proud to hold the role of Board Chair for Community Dialogues for Action.

Qàdriyyah is a Licensed Social Worker who has worked in the field of Social Services for close to a decade. Qàdriyyah graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development and Family Studies, with a focus on Child Development and later Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research (GSSWSR) with her master’s degree. 

She began her career serving children and families in Philadelphia's child welfare system. During her later years working in the child welfare system, her focus was on behavioral health working to assess the behavioral health needs of the children and families. Her work as a Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit Social Worker serving newborns with Chronic Lung Disease or bronchopulmonary dysplasia and particularly their parents during life changing journeys fed her interest in social justice. 

As a Social Worker at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Qàdriyyah continues to provide therapeutic counseling to patients, family and caregivers in distress in response to diagnoses and treatment. Grief, Loss, Trauma and Anxiety are areas she works to support individuals in day-to-day.

During her clinical training at Bryn Mawr GSSWSR, she maintained equal concentration on social inequities which flourished her eagerness to maintain driven by social justice. Currently as she builds upon her clinical skills she considers systematic, unjust disparities in health outcomes, as well as access to medical services. These inequities are driven by the social determinants of health—such as education, race/ethnicity, income and geography. In the near future she hopes to support individuals impacted by these inequalities in her private practice called MAJOR HEALING L.L.C.

When people ask me, “What do you do?” I always pause. Saying, “I’m a consultant,” does not begin to cover it. Over the years, my work has included being a right-of-way engineer, surveyor, Registered Technology Tutor in the Commonwealth of Virginia for people who are vision impaired, software developer for the vision impaired and other entities, marketing director for nonprofits and for-profits, sales representative for an artists’ collective, web designer, homeopathic practitioner, wood carver, puppet builder, and the first small-appliance “repair lady” for Sears and Roebuck during the era when Equal Employment Opportunity efforts encouraged companies to recruit women into non-traditional jobs. I am also the founder and director of three 501(c)(3) organizations: Vision Impaired Foundation, Sapphire Trust, and most recently, Puppetry 4 L.I.F.E. — Learning Intentionally For Excellence. 

Fortunately, thanks to the Girl Scouts’ Handyman Badge, my grandfather, and a Christmas-break job at Sears during my freshman year of college, my natural instinct for tinkering and “fixing things” has always been part of the underlying principle of who I am. Everything I have done has been rooted in the same purpose: to make things better than they were before and to improve the quality of life for the people around me. Two affirmations guide me deeply: “Life always supports me,” and “I will never miss what I am meant to have.” These have become even more meaningful through my recent discovery of Human Design. In Human Design, I am a 3/5 Emotional Projector. That explains a lot about my life.

Through both my successes and my mistakes, I have gathered a lifetime of practical wisdom. There is no formal “how-to manual” for the kind of path I have lived. But there is experience, discernment, creativity, resilience, and a lifelong commitment to helping others improve what they are building, how they are living, and who they are becoming.

That is what I do.

Ron Gladis considers himself a recovering electrical engineer. A true Renaissance man, Ron has also been an artist, teacher, photographer, film director, author, caregiver and speaker. Throw in his current positions as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center, a comprehensive community resource that provides caring and professional psychotherapy, counseling, and training to individuals, couples and families, and as President of The Mariah Fenton Gladis Foundation, a non-profit that supports underserved communities through programs that bring a sense of love, compassion, and forgiveness to those with a desire to create better lives, and you get the picture. A wealth of experience. Oh, and yes, he is currently learning to speak Italian.

Darryl Jones was the President and CEO of Maryland Nonprofits from 2008 until 2011, when he had to retire due to an injury. Prior to Maryland Nonprofits, Jones served as Executive Director of Communities in Schools of the Nation’s Capital. During his tenure as Vice President of the National Crime Prevention Council, Jones trained executives in leadership and coalition building, and was the keynote speaker, lead facilitator and curriculum writer for the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as many other organizations. Jones is a retired police officer where he was an academy instructor, a member of the SWAT team, and served three terms as the union president.

Jones is a Kellogg Fellow, and has received dozens of awards and honors for leadership and volunteerism. He studied political science at Howard University, and Management and Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Marianne Kaplan brings more than thirty years of Human Resources and Business experience to her Organization Development, Executive Coaching, and Training work. Marianne has held positions of increasing Human Resources or Operations responsibility at General Electric, Exxon, SmithKline Beecham, QVC, and Corning Besselaar. Throughout her career, Marianne has provided a variety of Human Resources services for all levels of employees. In the last 30 years, much of her work has involved consulting with corporate executives around organizational development issues. In March of 1996, Marianne established an independent consulting group, Kaplan Consulting Network. The goal of her organization is to increase the effectiveness of organizations as systems or the effectiveness and satisfaction of individuals working within these systems. A primary focus of Marianne’s work is in the area of inclusion, power, and diversity.

Marianne’s volunteer work has included board participation in the Mariah Fenton Gladis Foundation and the Social Justice Initiative, the predecessor of Community Dialogues for Action. She has also served as adjunct faculty to the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center, delivering presentations and workshops on a variety of soft skills and gestalt principles. She has also served as a Bereavement volunteer at Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester, PA, until its closing in 2022.

Dr. Isabel Sangeun Lee is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Salem State University in Massachusetts, where she has been teaching since 2024. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, focusing her research on bicultural and bilingual Asian human service workers, their working conditions, and burnout. Expanding her macro social work pedagogical approach to the global level through her teaching and research, she was appointed the Faculty Fellow for Global Engagement at Salem State University (2026–2028), a university-wide fellowship advancing global engagement initiatives across the institution.

Dr. Lee is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) and a Certified Case Manager (CCM) with a wealth of experience, having worked with Asian immigrant populations since 2009. Her extensive social work practice with diverse immigrant communities at the global, national, state, and local levels deeply informs her research and teaching on social and racial justice. She has also served as an external grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since 2021.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Dr. Lee holds leadership roles in several professional and community organizations. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice, where she leads the Data Working Group, and as the elected Vice President for Membership & Diversity of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Massachusetts Chapter. She has also served on the Advisory Committee of the Korean Culture Community Foundation (KCCF) USA since 2025.

Dr. Eva M. Moya is Chair of the Department of Social Work and Orville Edward Egbert, M. D. Endowed Professor in Health Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is a health disparities researcher and community engaged scholar with an interest in developing policy and education interventions to improve prevention efforts in underserved populations. Her work seeks to design community-based interventions using social determinants and ecological model strategies to address health inequalities in communities of color. She has worked to address the burden of social and health inequalities in the U.S.-Mexico Border for the past 42 years, primarily in a multi and interdisciplinary fashion. Research trajectory includes projects in community-based participatory research, social work macro practice approaches, use of Photovoice method, homelessness, and HPV education technology with Latino populations. She conducts community-engaged scholarship initiatives focused on high impact practices in education, homelessness, and interdisciplinary education. Dr. Moya is also experienced in working with faculty and students as well as community partners in the areas of qualitative research, educational interventions, and training of community health workers. She has successfully administered federal and binational research projects, collaborated with other scholars and researchers, and produced more than 45 peer-review publications and 15 book chapters. She is a Kellogg Fellow. Eva received the 2020 Othli Award from the Government of Mexico General Consulate in El Paso for leadership and service to Mexican communities in the United States.