Board of Directors
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.
Cynthia Jacelon
Dr. Cynthia Jacelon (she) is a Senior Advisor to the University of Massachusetts Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation. Cynthia retired as a rehabilitation clinical nurse specialist focused on promoting function in older individuals.
As a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America, she held numerous leadership roles within the profession, including President of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, Director of the PhD program, and Executive Dean at the UMASS College of Nursing, and Associate Dean of Research. Following her role as Associate Dean of Research for the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, she was Acting Co-Director for the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation. In her role as Senior Advisor to the Elaine Marieb Center, she participates in team meetings, provides grant proposal reviews, supervises students, and consults with faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, and students.
Rew Gordon
Rew (they) is the Founder and Previous Executive Director of Mitchell Street Arts, turned operations consultant. Mitchell Street’s mission is to promote creative abundance in Milwaukee, hosting a community makerspace, performing hall, and Artist-In-Residence program, promoting the timeless art of sharing resources to promote collective flourishing.
Rew has volunteered with Common Good on and off for half a decade as a Software Engineer and Organizer.
Graduating from Hampshire College with a focus in Education and Community Organizing in 2019, Rew served as City-wide Director of a data-driven field campaign for a Democratic Political Action Committee in 2020. Earlier (2017-2019), Rew worked as a Peer Mentor at Hampshire’s Transformative Speaking Program — working with students and professors to address classroom dynamics, prepare for presentations, and design Socratic coursework. In 2014, Rew worked as the performance department associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (performance department and visitor services), and in 2016 as an Associate at SALT Galata in Istanbul, Turkey.
Rew also likes to dance, read, play chess, play, nurture connection, sing, and be spontaneous.