Our Team
The Systems Alignment Innovation Hub is powered by a dynamic team of Co-Conspiritors, Visionaries, Builders, Weavers, Guides, Storytellers, Caregivers, and Researchers. Each team member incorporates a wealth of professional expertise and ancestral wisdom into our work. We are more than practitioners; we are movement builders, system connectors, and bold innovators. In our hands, theory meets action, and academic and community knowledge transforms into community-driven solutions. At our core, the community is not just a stakeholder; it is the heartbeat of everything we do.
Co-Director of SAIH
Dr. Espinoza is a passionate Pracademic (Practice/Academic). She serves as the Co-Director of SAIH. Dr. Espinoza believes in making information relevant and easy to digest. She is happiest breaking down barriers to research and creating new ways to learn, share, and collaborate. She leads SAIH's Research Strategy, Digital Communication, Academic Impact, and Grantee Dissemination work.
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Co-Director of SAIH
Dr. Green leads the TA and Consulting lanes as well as the ECBG grantee development and implementation. He is committed to elevating the voices of people with lived experience and seeing that communities are invited to the table.
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Association Director of Technical Assistance and Impact
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William Yi has a history of working in racial justice-rooted work. He brings a commitment to lived-experience expertise and a range of skills to help inform our Technical Assistance lane of work.
Chief Strategy Advisor
Regina is a known movement builder! She provides thoughtful and tangible insight to SAIH's overall strategy development and implementation. Learn more about Regina and Arc4Justice!
Associate Director of Transformative Research and Learning
Dr. Brittney Nathaniel (she/her) is a PhD researcher with expertise is in higher education with non-traditional students, learning content creation, workshop design/development, and delivery of research related topics. She has worked in making higher education more accessible in both the US and abroad.