Sayida Peprah-Wilson, PsyD
Founder / Executive Director
Dr. Sayida Peprah-Wilson is both a licensed clinical psychologist and birth doula with specialty in multicultural psychology, trauma, suicide prevention and maternal mental health. Dr. Sayida earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with a Multicultural Clinical-Community Emphasis, from the California School of Professional Psychology, at Alliant International University. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and Religion at Spelman College. Dr. Sayida’s study and work strongly emphasize multicultural awareness and in an effort to further this, she has traveled to Ghana, Mexico, Egypt and India, studying mental health approaches, indigenous culture and local spiritual traditions.
Susan Lowe, LMFT, PMH-C
Secretary
Susan Lowe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #113352). Susan has worked in the in both the corporate and non-profit sectors. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix and Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family therapy from Pacific Oaks School of Cultural and Family Psychology in Pasadena. She has been trained Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Nurtured Parenting, Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, Seeking Safety, and Meditation and Mindfulness. She offers psychotherapy (talk therapy) services to adults, children, teens, couples, and families. She specializes helping clients with anxiety, PTSD, depression, parenting and relational challenges.
Tamikka E. Claybrook
Treasurer
Tamikka E. Claybrook is a transformational, social justice leader with more than 25 years of experience in finance, operations, and administration management in various non-profit and for-profit industries. Ms. Claybrook oversees all finance and operations and is responsible for guiding and managing the organization's financial action and cash flow, analyzing strengths/weaknesses in the company's finances, and overseeing all aspects of its financial success. Ms. Claybrook has a proven track record of overseeing and managing budgets upwards of $17M. She is based in Southern California and through both volunteerism and professional efforts supported impactful community collectives and grassroots outreach efforts.
David Lowe
Assistant Treasurer
David Lowe has more than 7 years of experience working as an accountant. He worked in Public Accounting as a staff auditor for the Fashion Bafna, CPA Firm in New York City, N.Y., auditing the Health and Hospitals Corporation of N.Y.C. and the Hartford Hospital Corporation of Hartford, Connecticut. In addition, Mr. Lowe assisted in preparing detailed financial statements for client presentations. Subsequently, he worked as a corporate staff accountant for Motorola Inc. of Glen Rock, N.J. and Colorama Inc. of Passaic, N.J.. Mr. Lowe maintained a private tax practice for nearly 10 years, preparing tax returns for individuals and small business clients. He is also a certified public school teacher who taught high school mathematics for more than 25 years in the Paterson Public Schools District of N.J.. before retiring. He also taught for several years as an adjunct mathematics professor at Passaic County Community College, located in Paterson, N.J.. Mr. Lowe recently served on the board of the Retired Educators Association of Passaic County, N.J. as a financial auditor working with the treasurer and as a government relations representative, organizing lobby events to N.J. State Legislators at the capital city of Trenton.
Stanis K. Askew
Board Member
Stanis K. Askew is a strategic, business-focused, metrics and results driven Human Resources professional with over 15 years' experience, certified full spectrum doula, certified yoga instructor along with many other titles. Truly passionate about helping people and dedicated to raising awareness about the maternal health crisis and investing in community-based solutions.
Michelle Sanford
Board Member
Michelle Sanford is a former attorney for the Los County Alternate Public Defender Office. She has over 9 years of experience providing legal services within juvenile delinquency courts, including with clients who are human trafficking survivors, pregnant, on probation and/or are in foster care. Through her work supporting pregnant juvenile clients, who began to turn to her for guidance and advice, she was inspired to become a doula and completed doula training in 2021. Michelle proudly uses trauma-informed care to help sexually trafficked youth and adults with their prenatal and postpartum needs in Southern California.
Phillipa Johnson
Board Member
Ms. Phillipa Johnson has over 35 years of experience in Early Childhood Education. She served as the Executive Director, University of Southern California, (USC) School for Early Childhood Education. Prior to her USC appointment Ms. Johnson worked 25 years as the Deputy Director and Interim Director for Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Head Start, Early Head Start, State Preschool - Early Education Programs. The Drew University Early Education Programs were annually funded for $18 million, served 1,800 children ages 0-5 years old with 21 school sites located in Compton, Los Angeles, Paramount, and Lynwood communities.
Roshan Kindred
Board Member
Roshan Kindred is an agent for change and leading diversity, equity, and inclusion executive. She had been recognized by P.O.W.E.R. magazine for her work in leading change equity within corporate America. She currently serves as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for InSeason Development Group, a Los Angeles based DEI & Legal consulting firm. As the former Global Director of Iron Mountain Entertainment Group, she was responsible for negotiating global agreements, mergers, and acquisitions for some of the largest brands in film and music. No stranger to advocacy, Roshan was one of the founding directors of Iron Mountain’s global DEI program, serving 10 countries, on three continents, for 25,000 employees. She is a champion for inclusion, equality and belonging, advocating to some of the nation’s largest CEO’s on the purpose and prosperity of diversity and inclusion. She is known for her high level of emotional intelligence, leveraging her ability to motivate and lead to create long-term change within an organization. With over 15 years of training and development, she is well-versed on delivering thought-provoking training on unconscious biases, inclusion, equity and belonging training to leading leaders through organizational turmoil. She is currently authoring a transformational guide to help organizations pivot into positive change.
René Mollow, RN, MSN
Board Member
René worked for 30 years with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). She formerly served as the Deputy Director for Health Care Benefits and Eligibility (HCBE) for approximately 12 years. She provided leadership for benefits and eligibility policy planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of health care services and delivery systems under Medi-Cal and for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). HCBE is comprised of four divisions and two offices: Benefits Division, Medi-Cal Eligibility Division, Pharmacy Benefits Division, Medi-Cal Dental Services Division, the Office of Family Planning, and the Office of Tribal Affairs.
René worked to ensure that policies, procedures, and related activities in HCBE conformed to applicable state and federal policies, statutes, and regulations. She also assisted the Directorate, Administration, and Legislature in determining program direction, and consulted with the Director and State Medicaid Director on issues of significant policy impact involving both Medi-Cal and CHIP. René played a major role in policy planning, development, and implementation on matters pertaining to health care coverage maintenance and expansions for children and adult populations as well as benefit management and expansions for Medi-Cal and CHIP.