Board of Directors
Dr. David Ragland
Dave (he) is a writer, scholar, and activist with a focus on racial justice, reparations and abolition. He is a Co-Founder of Kibilio Community and Farm and the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director for Culture, Organizing, and Reparations at the Truth Telling Project, as well as a special advisor to Congresswoman Cori Bush and a number of progressive political candidates throughout the U.S.
Fennie Wang
Fennie (she) is a US-qualified securities lawyer, who practiced both securities litigation and international capital markets in New York and London. She is involved in legal advocacy for the emergent token economy, as a working group coordinator at the Coalition of Automated Legal Applications (COALA), a cross-disciplinary technology policy group in the blockchain and legal space. She started her career as a high yield research analyst at JPMorgan. In between Wall Street and law school, she founded a legal services non-profit in Uganda. She holds a law degree from Columbia, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and degrees in business and legal studies from Berkeley with high honors.
Tenaya Taylor
Tenaya (they) is a Capital Community College graduate, rapper, artist, business owner, writer, executive director, and founder at Nonprofit Accountability Group (NAG). NAG is an inclusive arts and social justice organization dedicated to grassroots movement building. Tenaya’s work in Greater Hartford includes housing families facing eviction, creating 3 community gardens, 100 paid internships for young people in Hartford ages 13-30, two little free food pantries, and a statewide mutual aid network for frontline communities impacted by climate change, the housing crisis, and environmental racism. Tenaya has been an advocate for intersectional solutions on housing reform, clean energy, and abortion access at the Connecticut State Capital and Hartford City Hall.
Nkemdilim Nwodo, MD, MPH
Nkemdilim (she) has a background in healthcare with a Master’s in Public health and a Medical Degree. Over ten years ago, She co-founded a healthcare nonprofit organization that serves the less privileged across several rural areas in Nigeria.
Nkemdilim enjoys swimming, Korean drama, and traveling.
Amari Armstead
Amari joins Common Good’s board in January 2024!