Dr. Yanique Redwood is the author of two books We Quit America: Our Exit From a Country Designed to Kill Black People (2024) and White Women Cry and Call Me Angry: A Black Woman’s Memoir on Racism in Philanthropy (2023). She is an expert on racial equity and racial justice and has spent her career writing and speaking on these topics for nonprofit and philanthropic audiences.

Dr. Redwood spent a decade as president and CEO of iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility, where she led the evolution of the foundation from a focus on health equity to a focus on racial justice. She is a sought after speaker on topics related to Black women’s experience of trauma in the workplace.

In addition to her professional endeavors, she enjoys Soca music, tending to her plants, skygazing, and reading with her book club Zora’s Roundtable. She resides in Washington, DC and Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Ronnie Galvin is the author of We Quit America: Our Exit From a Country Designed to Kill Black People(2024). Galvin was most recently the Managing Director for Community Investment at the Greater Washington Community Foundation. In this role, he served as the primary thought leader, strategic advisor, and coach in the formation of a new strategic plan that challenged the Foundation to lead more explicitly with racial equity.

Prior to this role, he served as Vice-President for Racial Equity and the Democratic Economy at the Democracy Collaborative. He also fulfilled other leadership roles at Community Change, a national nonprofit that builds the power of low-income people, especially people of color, to fight for a society where everyone can thrive, and Impact Silver Spring, a human-centered network that tackles the root causes of racial and economic disparities.

In addition to his professional endeavors, he enjoys Soca and house music, DJ’ing, reading biographies and non-fiction books, and debating social and political issues with friends. He resides in Washington, DC and Montego Bay, Jamaica.