To engage, educate, organize and mobilize black, brown and other historically marginalized people to build power for themselves and their communities.

Volma Volcy is a fervent community leader with over 15 years experience working in community, labor and the non-profit world. As a non-profit executive, he has a goal of building and training 50,000 community leaders from disadvantaged communities to step into the ring of democracy and into their leadership.

Stacey brings over 10 years of experience working in public health, community engagement and management. Stacey, a founding member of the Ring of Democracy, strongly believes in its mission and wants to serve to empower members of her community. 

As a Haitian immigrant, being able to empower marginalized people in the community is very important to her and she knows she can do that with the Ring of Democracy. 

Cynthia's passion for helping has been lifelong. As a little girl, she remembers making sandwiches for a neighbor who lost everything but his home, running blood drives for hurricane Katrina survivors and collecting donations for Haiti’s earthquake survivors.

The world often lacks compassion and love, but Cynthia wants to not lose that part of herself in the work she does. Her life's mantra is "The key to happiness is people helping people."
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With her time at the Ring of Democracy, Cynthia hopes to keep living by her life’s mantra of helping people in need. 

Joanna is a lifelong community activist with more than 25 years of experience and who has volunteered at food banks, senior centers and community events. She knew that she wanted to continue serving her community into adulthood.

She makes it a mission to research and find resources that she can provide to her community. Her motto in life is to "Get Things Done!"
 
What she would like to accomplish by working at the Ring of Democracy is to continue serving her community with all the wonderful resources and information provided by the Ring Of Democracy.