Meet the Team
Staff & Board

The ILI is a community of staff, associates, advisors, and stewards living and working throughout the United States. We strive to behave as a liberatory organization in alignment with our mission and values.  

Shared Stewardship

  • Advisors

    ILI Advisors are leaders, thinkers and activists in areas related to the work of the ILI, informing our research and impact agenda, and advising us with regard to operational functions. With no legal or fiduciary responsibility to ILI, advisors are free to offer their unique experience, wisdom, and perspective as critical friends of the Institute.

  • Board of Stewards

    The Board of Stewards leads and tends to the wellbeing and integrity of the Institute, operating on the principle of shared stewardship; the Board is comprised of volunteer and employed members serving as voting co-equals. Volunteer Stewards serve as elected members, officers of the Board, and as committee chairs. ILI staff Leads serve as employed members, and are solely responsible for the core work of the ILI.

  • Associates

    ILI Associates are specialists in particular areas of our work, delivering programs and services, conducting research, and writing for our publications.

Staff

  • Lucinda leads organizational development, learning, change-strategy, programs and services for the ILI. Her role will shift as our Leadership team grows.

    Lucinda is an accomplished organizational leader, strategist, and systems change practitioner. As a writer, advocate, scholar, and educator, her focus is on liberatory social and organizational change. She was co-founder and Lead Partner of ChangeMakers Partners consulting and research group, and a leader at Goddard College for over 20 years, serving on the faculty, as Academic Dean, Chief Strategy Officer, and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees.

    She holds a Doctorate in Leadership for Change from Fielding University, a Masters in Education from the University of New Hampshire, and an MFA in Creative writing from Goddard College. Lucinda is a Fellow of the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding University.

    Contact Lucinda here.

  • From 2018-2020, as a Senior researcher for the ILI, Shelley originated the role of the K-12 Scholar in Residence in public schools.

    Shelley is now the ILI Humanity and Justice Scholar for the Washington Central Unified Union School District in central Vermont.

    Shelley has taught multicultural education, race, gender and disability studies for over twenty-five years, at Goddard College, the University of Vermont and St. Michael’s Colleges, and was a community facilitator with the Vermont Peace and Justice Center’s Racial Justice project. She has participated in restorative practice training through The International Institute for Restorative Practices, The Insight Prison Project, STRONGHOLD, and the North Dakota Study Group.

    She holds a Doctorate in Education in Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Vermont, and MA in History from Goddard College.

Board of Stewards

The board of stewards is legally responsible for ensuring the financial stability of the institute, and alignment of Institute activities, structures and policies with its mission.

The ILI is actively seeking board members. If you are interested in our work, please contact our Director.

  • Sumeet is an advocate and strategist specializing in financial regulation and consumer protection. He has served as General Counsel for Nova Credit, a mission-oriented fintech start-up focused on helping immigrants get access to credit. He has also had prior roles as an attorney at Credit Karma and the Federal Reserve Board. He currently works as a Senior Markets & Policy Fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Sumeet is serving ILI in his personal capacity). He has a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

  • Lyn Chamberlin is an award-winning leadership consultant. She works with a broad range of institutions, companies, and non-profit organizations to develop the branding and marketing strategies they need to significantly increase visibility, drive revenue, and expand constituent engagement.

    She has held senior leadership positions throughout her career, acting as chief spokesperson for the institutions she represents and overseeing branding, advertising, public relations, and public affairs initiatives. She has held senior management positions at Harvard University, Radcliffe College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Sarah Lawrence College. An Emmy award-winning television producer, she was director of television programming at The Christian Science Monitor and a senior producer at Westinghouse Broadcasting and NBC.

    Before her focus on higher ed, Lyn was the founder and chief operating officer of skyePR, a brand consultancy in Boston, advising companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Polaroid, IDG, Navigant Consulting, and Technology Review Magazine, as well as numerous emerging technology start-ups and small businesses.

  • Ana (she/they) is a project management professional based out of Seattle. Having grown up in rural Washington state in a family of social workers, they have always been dedicated to meeting the needs of disenfranchised communities. Her professional experience centers on providing administrative support for community-based organizations and non-profits. Ana currently works as a Communications Specialist at the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County. Ana holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, where they concentrated on Public Policy and Creative Writing with an emphasis on narratives of immigration.

  • Melissa Gopnik is a financial services innovator creating financial security for low-wage workers. Melissa has worked with a diverse set of organizations to envision and implement the kind of strategic plan and new programs that make organizations work smarter and serve their stakeholders better. Throughout her career she has combined her talents in strategic planning, program and product design, research, and public speaking with a strong commitment to social change. Melissa holds a Master of Business Administration degree, with a diploma in Nonprofit Management, from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and Political Science from McGill University.

  • Robin E. Hummel, Ed.D. is the Director of the Leadership in Mathematics Education program at Bank Street Graduate School of Education. As Bank Street faculty, she serves as an advisor to graduate students and teaches mathematics, mathematics pedagogy, and action research. Dr. Hummel is also the Co-Director of Online Teaching and Learning where she supports faculty in the development of progressive pedagogy online. She received her Ed.D. in Leadership for Educational Change at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA, and her dissertation focused on action research as professional development for teachers and leaders in schools. She has presented at the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and American Educational Research Association (AERA). Prior to her career in higher education, she taught fifth grade through high school in public schools for over 25 years in southern New Jersey.