Susan Sturm is the lead designer and author of the Center Change Skills Hub. She is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and the Founding Director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School. She collaborates with a wide variety of higher education, artistic, government, criminal justice, and community-based organizations and networks involved in initiatives aimed at organizational and culture change, leadership development, supporting the leadership of directly affected communities, building anti-racist institutions, and increasing full participation.

Chris Sundquist, Jake Blecher, and Cristobal Mancillas were part of the design team that created the Centering Change Skills Hub, while they were law students at Columbia Law School. Now practicing lawyers, they each played a pivotal role in coming up with the idea and structure for the site (Chris), designing an earlier iteration of the online space (Jake), and developing content for the modules (Chris and Cristobal).

Elizabeth Emens and Richard Gray are co-instructors of Lawyer Leadership: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change in Challenging Times at Columbia Law School, and contributors to the modules designed for Lawyer Leadership. Professor Emens is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and is the founding director of the Mindfulness Program at CLS. Richard Gray serves as Metro Centers’ Deputy Executive Director of School Change and Community Engagement Programs and Director of the Community Organizing & Engagement team.

Chief Justice Paula Carey, Judge Julie Bernard, Judge Robert Foster, and John Laing are leaders in the Massachusetts Trial Courts. They have contributed to the modules designed for use by state trial court systems.

Rajanikant Deshmukh is the software engineer who designed, developed, and is now maintaining the Centering Change Website.

Raffi Marhaba is a branding specialist, senior graphic designer, and illustrator whose work is centered and rooted in social justice. They provided the graphics, design, and layout for the Centering Change Website. They also lead and implemented the rebrand for the Center for Institutional and Social Change. Find them at www.thedreamcreative.com

Jasmine McFarlane White is the Associate Director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change and the Centering Change Coordinator.