ABOUT BRANDI PORTER & LOVING MY HAIR BRAIDING SHOP Brandi Porter, owner of Loving My Hair Braiding Shop in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point Third Street corridor, provides free haircuts and braiding services to local foster youth. A former foster child...
ABOUT LYNETTE MACKEY & MACKEY’S KORNER Lynette Mackey is the founder of Mackey’s Korner, a nonprofit that brings suicide awareness and resources for prevention to Black and Brown youth who have been underserved by the mental health community. After losing...
ABOUT MERCEDES JACKSON & YOU VERSE PROJECT Mercedes Jackson is the Founder and Executive Director of The You Verse Project, a nonprofit organization focused on providing emotional wellness for the youth through self-management workshops, meditation, interactive...
ABOUT ADAMA BRYANT & WEEKEND ADVENTURES Adama Bryant is the founder and Director of Weekend Adventures, which serves youth (grades 3 thru 8) with life shifting adventures in the arts, sciences and outdoors to provide safe, fun spaces that are free from stress,...
ABOUT GAYLE HART & THE GEEZ FREEZE Gayle Hart is well known at festivals, parades, and block parties around San Francisco, where she serves up soft-serve ice cream, snow cones and frozen daiquiris from her celebrated food truck: The Geez Freeze. Committed to...
