Latonya Slack is principal and founder of Slack Global Consulting, which specializes in facilitating, visioning and assisting individuals and organizations with planning and navigating critical decisions. For seven years, she served as Senior Program Officer for California Democracy supporting civic engagement, community organizing, voter engagement and capacity building for the James Irvine Foundation. While at the foundation, she served as secretary, vice chair and chair of Southern California Grantmakers board of directors. Prior to working in philanthropy, she was Executive Director of the California Black Women’s Health Project, where she created a comprehensive policy advocacy program, a mental health initiative and the Advocate Training Program, which trains lay community members as health policy advocates. She has also worked for the Service Employees International Union as a community political organizer, engaging community, religious, labor and health organizations on health care justice issues. After graduating from UCLA School of Law, she worked with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles as a Consumer Law Advocate and, through AmeriCorps Legal Corps, on the Youth Empowerment Project, helping community groups in South Los Angeles create nonprofit organizations. Latonya is a graduate of Brown University with a concentration in Biomedical Ethics. She is a 2006 German Marshall Fund American Marshall Memorial Fellow and is currently a board member of the Liberty Hill Foundation, the California Association of Non Profits and California NonProfits Insurance Services. In 2006, Mayor Antonio Villaraigoso appointed her to serve as a Los Angeles City Commissioner for El Pueblo Historical Monument also known as Olvera Street.