“Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’”
— Angela Davis
Our Team
Our core team brings together decades of experience leading racial justice work across many sectors—non-profits, for-profits, schools, and government agencies. We have worked in housing and homelessness, health care and education, mental health and substance use recovery, and environmental justice. Our work transforms organizations and communities. Beyond our core team, we bring additional capacity through collaborative relationships with individual and organizational partners.
Donald Whitehead
donald@racialequitypartners.com
Donald is one of the country’s leading advocates for racial equity, recovery, and ending homelessness, with over 25 years’ experience. In addition to his work with REP, Donald serves as the first African American Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH). Alongside Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Julie Carson, and Barbara Lee, Donald and his team created the “Bringing America Home Act.”
Jeff Olivet
Jeff has more than 30 years experience in non-profit and for-profit organizational transformation work. From 2022-2024 he served in the Biden-Harris Administration as Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and was previously CEO of C4 Innovations. Jeff’s national efforts are committed to ending structural racism and achieving just outcomes for all people. In addition to his REP work, he is founder of Jeff Olivet Consulting Group.
Kavita Singh Gilchrist
kavita@racialequitypartners.com
Kavita has 20 years experience designing inclusive programs and managing organizations in the non-profit and education sectors. Through her work with New Visions for Public Schools, the Oakland Tech Exchange and Community Solutions, she managed teams and built structures to center people and focus on community impact. Kavita’s history of helping people navigate inequitable systems fuels her focus on rebuilding organizations with an antiracist lens for tangible change.