Senior leadership on the UT campus and representatives throughout the Toledo community who provide vision, support and enhancement to the efforts of the collaborative: 

• Mr. Norman A. Bell, Sr. past president, Minority Alumni Affiliate

• Dr. Ken Dobson, executive director, Economic Development and Planning

• Dr. Crystal Ellis, Toledo Public Schools

• Dr. Margaret Fritz, assistant professor/interim chair, Interdisciplinary Studies,  University College

• Ms. Selina Griswold, associate professor, Department of Business Technology

• Ms. Malenda Hawkins, assistant director, Student Development,  University College

• Ms. Marcia King-Blandford, Interim Assistant Vice Provost

• Mr. Terry Lentz, assistant director, high school initiatives

• Dr. Sudershan Pasupuleti, director, UT Service Learning and Community Engagement

• Ms. Jennifer Rockwood, Director UT FYE (First Year Experience)

• Dr. Angela Siner, undergraduate advisor/professor, Sociology/Anthropology

• Mr. Larry Sykes, President/CEO, LJSLB & Associates

• Ms. Cathy Zimmerman, director, College Relations - University College

Project Sponsors

UT student organization members

• African-American Student Enrichment Initiatives (AASEIO)

• Association for the Advancement of African American Women (4AW)

• Black Student Union (BSU)

• Student African-American Brotherhood (SAAB)

• UT Association of Black Faculty and Staff

• UT Health Science Campus College of Nursing