Ashley Scott

Ashley N. Scott is a wife, mother of 2, and serial entrepreneur. She is the Co-Founder, Visionary, and Chief Communications Officer of The Freedom Georgia Initiative. Mrs.Scott is not only a real estate agent but an activist and public speaker that inspires intentional community development and empowers Black families to practice the power of collective economics and private banking. She is helping to amplify the story of how 19 Black families purchased over 502 acres of land 2-hours south of Metro Atlanta to implement their vision of an environmentally friendly, self-sufficient, intentional community.

Ashley Scott currently works with Keller Williams Atlanta Metro East and resides in Stonecrest, GA. She is a member of the Dekalb Association of REALTORS, the NAACP, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and sits on the Greater Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce. A sought-after inspirational speaker and content contributor, Ashley’s is recognized from her two appearances on Earn Your Leisure (Apple’s #1 Business Podcast), CNN, and the Black News Channel. Her story has been featured in Forbes, Washington Post, New York Times, and more. She is currently serving as the Chief Storyteller and Content Manager at the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs.

More information about Ashley can be found at www.AshleyScottInspires.com

Danielle Marie Jones

Danielle Marie Jones (she/her) is a playful nature educator, curious systems thinker, and passionate facilitator of yoga and somatic practices. She is a weaver of Sankofa Village Arkansas, a fiscally-sponsored nonprofit and forming intentional community with a mission to transform multigenerational community health through land stewardship & education. We center Black Arkansans in our work to cultivate housing affordability, wealth-building, and climate resiliency. Danielle is inspired by folkways, plant kin, emancipatory research, and regenerative systems. She proudly draws on her ancestors’ earth-connections as she weaves ancient lessons in new contexts.

Izegbe Onyango

Izegbe Onyango, is a seasoned community advocate and teacher with more than 25 years of immersive community experience. A transplant from Baltimore, MD, Izegbe has spent the last 14 years earning a place in the cultural tapestry of Miami. She has extensive experience in the not-for-profit space including executive level leadership and development, overseeing programs and projects, capacity building, and community partnership. Her highest value is in her role as a facilitator, inspiring durable organizational change by building and nurturing authentic, reciprocal relationships at each level of contact.

Izegbe’s current body of work includes her current role at Catalyst Miami, whose vision for a just and equitable society is supported largely by her role as Community Engagement Director. She is a founding member and Board Chair of The Sisterhood Circle Miami, a service-based non-profit geared towards the support of BIPOC women and families. Further, As a facilitator at large, she developed facilitation services, in addition to coalition support, board and committee appointments that span human services organizations in Miami-Dade County. She has engaged in facilitation and curriculum development for Miami Dade County District 8 , The National Parent Leadership Institute, and People Empowering People, a national curriculum and anchor program for The Children’s Trust. Izegbe has received awards for compassion, leadership, and collaboration from the community she serves. She is recognized in her community as an advocate of choice, a resource, and as a proponent for change.

Sister Maria A. Muhammad

Sister Maria A. Muhammad, a student of Environmental Science, began her journey in food equity, organizing whole food cooperatives for communities stricken by food apartheid since 1996. She has the legacy of generations of her ancestors who have loved and nurtured the land maternally and paternally coursing through her veins. Sister Maria, through most of her adult life, has used those ancestral ties to co-found and facilitate Enrichment Programs, connecting youth and adults from urban communities who lacked access to resources to nature. She is a Roots of Success Environmental Literacy Workforce Development & Social Enterprise Program Instructor, the first and only federally recognized Department of Labor “Career Technical Educator – Environmental Literacy Program.” She is an Environmental Justice, Climate Equity, & Community Organizing facilitator and CEO of I Am Green, a 501c3 social enterprise that reconnects our community back to the planet and each other; an organization focused on creating a resilient and peaceful community by uplifting our people with a mix of eco-education, art, and activism. I Am Green operates in San Diego CA and is the first organization to launch a community-centered free EV car share for residents impacted by environmental harms produced by poor air quality. I Am Green is also in partnership with Freedom Village, GA, and The Grove in Freedom Village, as consultants in creating a black-owned & operated Eco-Village in Hancock County, GA.

Christina Hylton

Through her activism and academia over the past decades, Christina Hylton has been deeply involved in a quest for social transformation through regenerative community-based development both in the United States and Internationally. Hylton holds a BA degree in Urban Studies from Rutgers University, a MA in Urban Education from the University of Long Island and a PhD from the University of Georgia. Hylton’s work as an educator- at the community, high school and university levels has always emphasized the importance of collaborative community development that attends to economic, racial, environmental and gender justice.

Her work in education and community development has taken her to 48 of the 50 states, Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, Guatemala, Jamaica, and Barbados. As a researcher Christina has spent time studying black women and their relationship to land in 7 states of the southeast US; and human ecology and place-based learning in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Nova Scotia. As a practitioner of community development, she has over 15 years experience working with environmental education based organizations including a Land Trust both internationally and locally. Christina has founded the Regenerative Institute of Community Education, where they promote land stewardship, regenerative agriculture, intergenerational family-based ecology education, and host an educational demonstration farm. She currently resides on 60 acres in rural Northeast Georgia where she and her family are working to cultivate an intentional regenerative community.

Kaamilah-Yasmiyn:Muhammad-Milton

Kaamilah-Yasmiyn:Muhammad-Milton is a multi-skilled individual with a rich background rooted in what is now termed “social justice”. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the “cradle of liberty”, Kaamilah has been honing sentience and timing as an actor, dancer, martial artist, clown, energy conductor, and breather since the age of five. As a member of the Philadelphia African Diaspora Movement Arts collective and several cultural organizations, Kaamilah has had the opportunity to perform and work with notable names in the arts, culture, and education industries, including Benita Binta Brown, Oyin Harris, Robert Crowder, Bruce Robinson, and many more seen and unseen, who champion cultural-knowledge sharing in their living and lifeforce.

Kaamilah is highly focused on well being and has gained a wealth of experience in this area through her various roles, including surveyor, writer, and liaison for government-funded service learning organizations and touring companies. In Delaware county, Kaamilah has learned both children and adults on “healthy” eating habits and physical exercise, organized volunteers and community events to raise awareness and foster connections, and witnessed some of the oldest cultures in the world utilizing their resources collectively to sustain their communities despite intentional destruction of their land, culture, and resources.

At present, Kaamilah is a founding part of a calling, named Stellar Roots, made up of people from Afro/Indigenous diaspora.They are creating a network of supportive living spaces by connecting people and resources to help each other grow specific to individual context and improve their communities. They’re working on building homes with nature in observation of land where they can remember how to steward themselves, and learn and share their culture with future generations. They want to bring people and real-sources together to create a better future for everyone.

Kaamilah’s future is focused on promoting community-supported growth for the individual, wellness, and prosperity for diaspora communities in this lifetime and beyond. As an artist, Kaamilah is committed to embracing and elevating the meaning of our moment-to-moment living of the “mundane”. Experiences that ask us to witness and steward the quality and honor that lies within each and every one of us. Her future projects will be a thrilling blend of artistic practices and social justice passions as they always have been, simply, louder.