Maegan Scott

Founder and CEO

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Maegan Scott is an organizational change luminary who leads with a racial justice lens. She founded Wayfinding Partners to create an affirming space for people of color wishing to dismantle systems of oppression and make way for a reimagined, liberated society.

Since its founding, Wayfinding has blossomed into a team of seven full-time staff members and a cadre of more than twenty racial equity training specialists. Maegan’s carefully curated team has partnered with over 30 nonprofit, philanthropic, and private sector organizations. Some of her accomplishments include designing and launching Leadership Montgomery’s Racial Equity Action Leadership (REAL) Inclusion cohort-based program and supporting the reconstitution of A Way Home America’s board into one with a majority of youth with lived expertise of homelessness.

Maegan brings more than 15 years of experience in philanthropy and nonprofits to Wayfinding. Her approach to facilitating change is emergent, holistic, and healing-centered. She is a Reiki practitioner who cultivates spaces where individuals' energetic, emotional, and physical selves are seen, heard, and respected.

Maegan has a bachelor’s degree from American University, an executive certificate in nonprofit management from Georgetown University, and a master’s in organization development from the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University. She resides in Kensington, Maryland with her husband and their entitled cat.

Bridgette Nelson

principal Consultant

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Bridgette Nelson has built a professional career in changing companies through their people. With a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, Bridgette has a unique ability to develop strategic organization and culture plans that speak to the business and bottom line.  She has expertise in the private sector across several industries including manufacturing, insurance, banking and real estate development. 

While navigating the corporate landscape as a Black woman, Bridgette developed a passion for incorporating more diversity, equity, inclusion and overall belonging into workspaces. She focuses on this work through her years of experience in learning and organizational development. Bridgette specializes in capacity building through participatory facilitation, leadership development, performance management, coaching, and organization culture, and design. 

Bridgette is currently obtaining her master’s degree in organization development at Pepperdine University. Bridgette is a born and bred southern California girl who enjoys her time being active, spending time with family and having a good laugh, preferably all at the same time. As a wife and mother of two, Bridgette is committed to create more inclusive and equitable environments for the generations to come.

Courtney Ng

Director of community programs

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Courtney Ng is a racial equity advocate who fosters spaces where individuals and organizations can be vulnerable, learn together, and dream of a liberated world where all can show up fully as themselves. In her role at Wayfinding, she does this by designing and running cohort programs and workshops that bring together practitioners from different fields to engage in meaningful dialogue about race and racism. She brings mindfulness and yoga practices to these offerings to foster the presence, wellness, and self-compassion needed for sustainable equity work.

Prior to joining the incredible Wayfinding family, Courtney worked in the education realm as a Blue Engine teaching assistant, New York City Department of Education communications director, and college student advisor/program manager for Bottom Line. She very much enjoys working and learning alongside young people. As an Asian American woman growing up in and attending NYC public schools, she had a deep sense of the inequity and otherness that students of color often face. As such, she has long advocated for increased awareness of how racism and other forms of oppression impact students’ opportunities and experiences.

Courtney has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Rice University, as well as her 200-hour yoga teacher training certification. She lives in New York City with her cat, Penelope Simone. She loves to dance, write, sip wine, and get lost in a jigsaw puzzle.

Dr. Stacy Scott

Chief Strategist

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Dr. Stacy L. Scott is President and Founder of the Center for Understanding Equity and a nonprofit Global Sustainable, Inc. He specializes in Educational Consulting, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning and Diversity Training. Dr. Scott has been a keynote presenter, facilitator, and trainer for many conferences and organizations over the past 25 years.

From 1987 to 1994, Dr. Scott had a private practice in Psychology in Lexington, MA. He has also worked at a variety of clinical sites including Massachusetts General Hospital, Judge Baker Children’s Center, Worcester Youth Guidance Center, and The Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, where he served as Pediatric Clinical Coordinator. Previously, he served on the faculty of The Harvard Medical School as a Lecturer in Psychology and a consultant in Child Psychiatry.

Dr. Scott developed a practice of organizational consulting working with Fortune 500 corporations: BayBanks, Nynex, Blue Cross Blue Shield.  He has developed a wide variety of tools and resources to help school districts with leadership development and strategic planning. He served as an Associate Superintendent in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland and Superintendent for districts in Massachusetts.

Dr. Scott is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education where he has been a guest lecturer over the past few years.  He served as an adjunct professor at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for Urban Ministerial Education, lecturing on Faith Development. Dr. Scott has developed training models for diversity, leadership development, organizational improvement, and many others.

Dr. Scott holds an Ed.M. and an Ed.D. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in Counseling and Consulting Psychology. He received a B.A. in International Government with an emphasis in Spanish language and culture from Harvard College. Dr. Scott was appointed by Governor William Weld to serve on the Massachusetts State Board of Educators. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts.

Sarah Colomé

Senior Consultant

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Sarah Colomé brings a passion for collective liberation to all aspects of her work. Her career journey has spanned the nonprofit, higher education, and governmental sectors, with a focus on capacity building, coaching, training, and technical assistance. Most recently serving as the Director of the Women’s Resources Center at the University of Illinois, she led the Center’s three key divisions (gender equity, sexual misconduct prevention, and advocacy and support) while working at the institutional and system levels to cultivate values-driven policies, plans, and practices. 

An educator and strategist at heart, Sarah finds joy in designing and implementing community-driven solutions that prioritize the intersectional needs of BIPOC communities. She holds a Masters of Science in Public Service Management from DePaul University, is a CoreAign Speaking Race to Power Fellowship alumna, and a trained domestic violence and sexual assault crisis intervention counselor (advocate). 

When she's not working with Wayfinding, she serves as the Vice-Chair for NASPA’s Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention, Education, and Response Knowledge Community, on the Board of Governors for the local University YMCA, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education. Born and raised in Southern California with a Chicagoan's heart, Sarah currently resides in Champaign, IL where she drinks too much coffee between her travel adventures. 

Melanie Crable, CAP

Executive Assistant

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Melanie Crable is an experienced executive assistant supporting the Wayfinding Partners team as they do the important work of furthering racial equity and justice. As a progressive Jew living in the South, she strives to live her life through the lens of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) and is deeply committed to dismantling oppressive systems in order to improve outcomes for our families, communities, and workplaces.

She holds a bachelor's degree in Recreation and Tourism Management from San Diego State University and is a Certified Administrative Professional (CAP). Prior to her role at Wayfinding, she worked in healthcare, supporting executives in Arkansas, Texas, California, Arizona, and Washington D.C.

A native Californian, Melanie currently lives in Dallas with her husband, son, and 3 perfect cats. When she isn't working, you can find her enjoying the outdoors, FaceTiming with her mom and sister, or sipping a cold beer. 

Héctor Ramírez

Senior Consultant

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Héctor Ramírez is a writer, former educator, and nonprofit consultant who believes in the radical power of imagination and its capacity for nurturing liberatory movements. He received a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Colorado Boulder. Storytelling informs all aspects of his life, and the study of fiction has helped him navigate and counter the dominant narratives he confronts as a first-generation Chicano in professional and educational spaces.

Héctor’s professional roots are in education, first as a creative writing instructor at CU Boulder and later the Assistant Director of the CU Boulder Upward Bound (CUUB) program. At CUUB, Héctor was able to support the creation and implementation of decolonial pedagogical programming for indigenous high school students from across the country. He also leveraged his position on campus to further advocate on behalf of historically excluded and underserved students, giving lectures and training sessions on topics pertaining to equitable educational programming and cultural responsiveness.

Héctor has been a nonprofit leader at the intersection of the arts and social justice since 2015, serving on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (2015-present) and Motus Theater (2019-2021). Prior to joining the Wayfinding team, Héctor was a nonprofit consultant and fund development specialist in Orange County, CA, helping a wide variety of nonprofit clients navigate the incredibly uncertain fundraising landscape brought on by COVID-19 while staying true to their missions. He currently lives in Savannah, GA with his wife and, hopefully very soon, at least one dog and one cat. When not immersed in the work of antiracist nonprofit consultation, Héctor can most likely be found watching cartoons, tinkering with some prose, or singing rancheras and jazz standards.   

Virgil Whitehurst

ProGraM CoorDinator

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Virgil Whitehurst is a young professional in the Washington, DC area with previous work experience in the nonprofit and public sectors. He has experience in project management and event organizing. Virgil has interned or volunteered with the organizations Our Voices Matter, Oceana, Impact Silver Spring, and Leveling the Playing Field. In 2018, Virgil and his team were finalists in the University of Maryland’s Do Good Challenge for “Water Under the Bridge - Recidivism Solutions,” a proposed B Corp business that would help connect formerly incarcerated people and potential employers.

As a Wayfinding Fellow, Virgil eagerly looks forward to supporting people working on personal transformation and partnering with organizations that have justice-driven missions. He enjoys having a positive impact on other’s personal growth.

Virgil is a 2020 graduate of the University of Maryland - College Park with a degree in government and politics and minors in sustainability and nonprofit leadership and innovation. He is also a graduate of Gonzaga College High School and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Isabel Norris

Program ASSISTANT

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Isabel Norris is a young professional who is passionate about social justice, racial equity, and transformative growth. She joins the Wayfinding Partners team with a heart to give a voice to the voiceless.

As a young girl, her family immigrated from central Mexico to Kodiak, Alaska, completely changing her life. She shares that her worldview shifted due to the international culture the fishing industry brought to her hometown. Growing up in Alaska, she was exposed to a lens of institutionalized biases from all over the world, and it gave her the drive to understand and know more.

Surpassing medical issues and challenges, Isabel is a recent graduate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Social Work and Spanish, which she intends to use to further advocate and make a change.

As a committed believer, she intends to change history by dismantling bias and build bridges to create a more joy-filled and equitable world for the next generations.

When she is not at work, you can find her either making or eating a great meal and spending time with her husband in the great outdoors.