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Marlon J. Chamberlain advocates for people directly impacted by the criminal legal system. He brings over 20 years of lived and professional experience to his work with Heartland Alliance and is the current founding Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments. Englewood Project Manager with the READI Chicago Program at Heartland Alliance. Prior to that, he was a Community Organizer with the FORCE (Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality) Initiative. 

Lolita Mack is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating the Title IV grant. She also develops specific strategies to identify at-risk students and implement strategies to identify student difficulties and barriers. Lolita also provides effective interventions to deal with a student's lack of attendance, financial problems, transportation, childcare needs, low self-esteem, poor time-management and/or study skills, and academic difficulty. Retention is her number one focus.

 Ashley Watson, NMWAIT Founder | President

Her mother and grandmother raised Ashley Watson. In St. Petersburg, Florida, she faced her first bout with adversity in becoming a teenage mother to support her family; opted to work in the medical field and obtained her Nursing Assistant certification. It was there that she leaned on her medical industry skills in her quest for more significant development and expansion. Working at the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations.

Quianya L. Enge is a community navigator and educator in economic development. Enge received her bachelor’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University in Inner City Studies, a Master of Education in Workforce Education and Development, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Higher Education and Administration from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.