Masterminds are CREATORS who will BUILD a new world.

Our leaders BUILD, which emphasizes the essential actions for creating a transformative educational experience:

  • Believe: Instilling belief in the potential and capabilities of Black students, teachers, and parents.

  • Uplift: Elevating communities through empowerment and support.

  • Interrogate: Critically examining and challenging existing structures and narratives.

  • Lead: Teaches, empowers, and coaches individuals and communities to liberate themselves from oppressive systems.

  • Design: Creating new systems with communities that foster growth through education, leadership development, and sustainability.

Melanated Masterminds empowers leaders to CREATE and BUILD on an African-centered foundation. We are dedicated to transforming the community through the development of exceptional leaders. Our mission is to cultivate leaders who are innovative thinkers and proactive builders of a more equitable and just society. Melanated Masterminds nurtures leaders' potential, empowering them to become CREATORS who BUILD a new world.

Our leaders are CREATORS, engaging in roles that are crucial for innovation and social transformation:

  • Creator: Imagines and builds new curricula and learning experiences.

  • Researcher: Investigates and applies educational theories and practices.

  • Educator: Teaches, coaches, and mentors students, teachers, and community members.

  • Architect: Designs and constructs educational frameworks and environments.

  • Thinker: Engages in the raising of critical consciousness for themselves and others 

  • Organizer: Mobilizes and empowers communities, fostering collective action and grassroots leadership.

  • Reconstructor: Rebuilds and reimagines equitable systems and structures.

  • Strategist: Envisions and executes effective strategies grounded in equity and social justice.

Through our comprehensive coaching and development programs, Melanated Masterminds ensures our leaders have the mindset, skills, knowledge, and power to build our future. By combining the innovative CREATORS and BUILD framework with the Africana Studies framework, our leaders are prepared to create lasting change in their communities through education, empowering the next generation of learners and leaders to achieve their fullest potential.