Hello, we are
Courageous Conversation®
We engage in sustained partnerships featuring training, coaching and consulting with organizations to transform beliefs, behaviors and results so people of all races can achieve at their highest levels and live their most empowered and powerful lives.
What Is Courageous Conversation®?
COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION® is our award-winning protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining and deepening interracial dialogue. Through our Framework for Systemic Racial Equity Transformation, we help individuals and organizations address persistent racial disparities intentionally, explicitly, and comprehensively.
The question we receive the most is:
“Why examine and address race?”
For us, there’s a simple answer for this:
Race matters.
Our Why
Race matters in our nation and around the world. It is critical that we address racial issues in order to uncover personal and institutional biases that prevent all people, and especially people of color, from reaching their fullest potential. COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION® serves as the essential strategy for systems and organizations to address racial disparities through safe, authentic and effective cross-racial dialogue.
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The link between
Courageous Conversation® and Pacific Educational Group.
Our Work
Pacific Educational Group is a consulting firm committed to forging racial equity. Over our nearly 30-year history, our mission has expanded from an original focus on transforming PreK-12 education and the United States to a broader scope of work that now addresses race in higher education, corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and law enforcement in Canada, New Zealand and Australia as well.
We believe systemic racism is the most devastating factor contributing to the diminished capacity of all people—especially people of color and indigenous people—to achieve at the highest levels. It fractures our communities and erodes the support and nourishment we would otherwise receive from them. We cannot hope to eliminate the racially predictable outcomes of our lives unless we first discuss race and racism in a way that is earnest, honest and sustainable.

To that end, we have developed Courageous Conversation®, a process to understand and discuss race explicitly. Hundreds of thousands of people have learned the Courageous Conversation About Race Protocol™ from our diverse and dynamic staff.
These representatives of various professions, regions and life experiences work together to design curriculum, facilitate seminars and coach leaders to use Courageous Conversation® in their personal and professional lives.


These representatives of various professions, regions and life experiences work together to design curriculum, facilitate seminars and coach leaders to use Courageous Conversation® in their personal and professional lives.
Meet Our Team
President’s Office

Glenn E. Singleton
Founder & President

David Davidson
Senior Advisor & Special Projects Coordinator

Chanel Burrell
Special Assistant, Founder & President

Sheeri Mitchell
Executive Assistant, Founder & President
Executive Leadership Team

Dr. Ruby Ababio-Fernandez
Executive Vice President, Programming & Development

Dr. Dallas Dance
Executive Vice President, Operations
Programming & Development

Andrea Johnson
Senior Advisor & Professional Development Coordinator

Courtney Winkfield
Executive Director, Programming & Development

Josina Bohmer-Tapia
Administrative Assistant, Programming & Development

Dr. Kehaulani Haupu
Director, PreK-12

Courtney Caldwell
Equity Transformation Specialist, PreK-12

L. Kojo Sheppard
Equity Transformation Specialist, PreK-12

Dr. LaKeisha Cook
Director, Corporate, Nonprofit, Government

Senta Hawkins
Administrative Assistant, Corporate, Nonprofit, Government

Claudine McDonald
Equity Transformation Specialist, Corporate, Nonprofit, Government

Madison Potts-McAdoo
Equity Transformation Specialist, Corporate, Nonprofit, Government

David Gonzales
Director, Certifications
OPERATIONS

Nicole Short
Strategic Advisor & Special Assistant, Executive Vice President-Operations

Apelila Peniata
Manager, Operations

Marisa Narasaki
Administrative Assistant, Operations

Luis Versalles
Director, Business Development

Ross Lim
Lead Tech Support Specialist

Gabriel Gima
Director, Marketing & Communications

Emelia Ho
Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Melody Hwang
Graphic Designer