2021 International Women's Day for Women of African Descent Virtual Conference
Promoting Women of African Descent

Fartun Weli, MPH, MAPP
Founder & Executive Director, Isuroon

Judge LaJune Thomas Lange (ret.)
Fourth Judicial District Court, Minnesota
Honorary Consul of South Africa in Minnesota
President, International Leadership Institute

Kellis Houston
Founder, Village Arms

Marisol Chiclana-Ayala, MPA
Deputy Director, Minnesota Department of Health COVID-19 Response
Adjunct Professor, St. Catherine University
Personal/Global Consultant, LLC

Sonja Davila-Williams, MSW, LISW
Associate Professor
Chair, Social Work Department,
Metropolitan State University

Antonia Wilcoxon, Ed.D.
Principal Consultant, Equity Strategies, LLC

Chrissy Mignogna

Leslie Wright
Vice President, Development & Alumni Relations,
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mary Turner, RN
Member of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
President, Minnesota Nurses Association
Board Chair, Isuroon


Lia Roberts, DNP, PHN, RN
Emergency Preparedness Program Coordinator,
Dakota County Public Health

Dawn Bennett
Founder, Touch Remedies

Ramla Elmi
Refugee Savings Program Coordinator, Isuroon

Hanan Adam, LGSW
Social Worker, Isuroon

Elizabeth Ruskin, LICSW
Co-clinical Director, Isuroon

Sadie Clark
Social Work Intern, Isuroon

Elizabeth Fromholz
Social Work Intern, Isuroon

Nasra Suleiman, LSW
Social Services Coordinator

Michael Luseni, M.Ed.
Principal, Heritage Academy

Nasra Hasen
Community and School Liaison, Isuroon

Michael Birchard
Associate Vice President of Equity & Inclusion,
Inver Hills Community College
Dakota County Technical College

Sheila Nezhad
City Policy Organizer, Reclaim the Block