Alicia Sojourner serves as the Racial Equity Consulting Manager at YWCA Minneapolis. Alicia has many years in the Education and Public Policy fields. Alicia currently uses her background in grassroots community and political organizing for early childhood education, disability rights, and racial equality to inspire others to be change agents in the YWCA community, as well as their own.

Over the years, Alicia has been involved in many activities that foster community, including serving on the Board of Directors for a Minneapolis charter school to ensure children at every ability have an opportunity to learn, member of the Interfaith Children's Advocacy Network (iCAN), lead of a support group for parents who are parenting on their own, supporting women living with negative body image and food addiction, and raising awareness of the achievement gap of children with disabilities in communities of color and how it affects the overall community.

Alicia has been awarded many opportunities over the years, including: Young Advocate Leadership Training (YALT®) Program through Children’s Defense Fund, Young Alaka'i Award for working with marginalized youth, and winner of Inspiring Women by the WNBA Minnesota Lynx.

In the Fall of 2017, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will join the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA where she held appointments in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. She is a partner in Stratelligence, a firm that specializes in research on information and data science challenges, and is a co-founder of the Information Ethics & Equity Institute, which provides training for organizations committed to transforming their information management practices toward more just, and equitable outcomes. She is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award.

Noble’s academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology design. Her monograph on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines is entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (forthcoming, NYU Press). She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of two books: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online (Peter Lang, Digital Formations, 2016), and Emotions, Technology & Design (Elsevier, 2015). Safiya holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno with an emphasis on African American/Ethnic Studies.

Dr. Rozman Clark was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) and it was there at age 15 that she experienced the effects of war first-hand. She was so profoundly moved by her experience that she vowed to do everything she could to help those whose lives had been unjustly disrupted by conflict. Dr. Rozman Clark has certainly kept her promise. Since then, she has volunteered countless hours to serving refugees and immigrant populations not only in Slovenia but in countries all over the world. 

Professionally, she has worked for a variety of nonprofit organizations and has managed over twenty-five projects in three post-conflict countries, including Kosovo, Bosnia, and Macedonia. She worked as an intern in the United Nations Development Program’s Best Practices Office and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the failed UN peacekeeping intervention during the Bosnian genocide. In fact, it was her work gathering personal testimonies from survivors and Dutch peacekeepers for her thesis that alerted her to the power of personal stories, which has become her signature work in the Upper Midwest region.

Dr. Rozman Clark is co-founder and executive director of Green Card Voices (GCV), an organization dedicated to sharing the stories of immigrants with the goal of shrinking the divide between immigrant and nonimmigrant communities in the United States.  While part of Green Card Voices, she has interviewed over 300 first-generation immigrants and refugees from over 100 different countries and six continents, and organized over fifty exhibits throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota.

Since 2015 and under the leadership of Dr. Rozman Clark, Green Card Voices has self published the following titles: 

• VOICES OF IMMIGRANT STORYTELLERS: Teaching Guide for Middle and High Schools (2015), 
• Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a Minneapolis High School (2016, gold medal winner for Best Multicultural Nonfiction Chapter Book in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, and 2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist),
• Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a Fargo High School (March 2017)

Their forthcoming book Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a St. Paul High School will be published in June 2017. 

In 2015, Dr. Rozman Clark was awarded the prestigious Bush Leadership Fellowship, which has enabled her to grow Green Card Voices and continue to make good on the promise she made over 20 years ago. The fellowship has given her the opportunity to study with the world's leading social entrepreneurs at Stanford University, to learn how to mobilize her majority immigrant board at Harvard University, and to deepen her knowledge on finance, scaling, social entrepreneurship, management and leadership at the UMN’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Dr. Rozman Clark has accomplished this while raising two elementary-age daughters and mentoring many fellow immigrants, which have been the most gratifying of all.

Alicia Sojourner serves as the Racial Equity Consulting Manager at YWCA Minneapolis. Alicia has many years in the Education and Public Policy fields. Alicia currently uses her background in grassroots community and political organizing for early childhood education, disability rights, and racial equality to inspire others to be change agents in the YWCA community, as well as their own.

Over the years, Alicia has been involved in many activities that foster community, including serving on the Board of Directors for a Minneapolis charter school to ensure children at every ability have an opportunity to learn, member of the Interfaith Children's Advocacy Network (iCAN), lead of a support group for parents who are parenting on their own, supporting women living with negative body image and food addiction, and raising awareness of the achievement gap of children with disabilities in communities of color and how it affects the overall community.

Alicia has been awarded many opportunities over the years, including: Young Advocate Leadership Training (YALT®) Program through Children’s Defense Fund, Young Alaka'i Award for working with marginalized youth, and winner of Inspiring Women by the WNBA Minnesota Lynx.

In the Fall of 2017, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will join the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA where she held appointments in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. She is a partner in Stratelligence, a firm that specializes in research on information and data science challenges, and is a co-founder of the Information Ethics & Equity Institute, which provides training for organizations committed to transforming their information management practices toward more just, and equitable outcomes. She is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award.

Noble’s academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology design. Her monograph on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines is entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (forthcoming, NYU Press). She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of two books: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online (Peter Lang, Digital Formations, 2016), and Emotions, Technology & Design (Elsevier, 2015). Safiya holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno with an emphasis on African American/Ethnic Studies.