Ka Flewellen
Organizer
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Ka Flewellen is a scholar-practitioner in the field of organization development with a special focus on non-profits and community-based organizations whose agenda is social change, diversity and inclusion, citizen engagement in public policy, and client-centered social programs, with high quality program delivery, strong governance and committed leadership.  She designs and facilitates leadership development training with a special focus on youth, strategy development and strategic planning, board development and training, and aligning organizational vision, values with organization infrastructure.
 
As a scholar, Ka Flewellen is a doctoral student at Fielding Graduate University in Human and Organization Development, faculty at American University/NTL Institute
Masters Degree in Organization Development and Marygrove College’s Social Justice Masters Degree Program.  She received a certificate in Democracy, Civic Engagement from Fielding Graduate University.
 
She served as Assistant Director of the AU/NTL Masters Degree Program at American University.  She maintained her consulting practice and provided services to union organizations, AFSCME and SEIU, providing consulting services to grantees of the Environmental Support Center, as well as community-based non-profits as well as American University programs.  She is an Emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the Peace Development Fund, a national foundation, where she also served as Interim Director for Programs and Training.  In that capacity she designed and implemented the BASE Initiative (Building Action for Sustainable Environments) that provided grants and organization capacity-building support to 17 communities (African-American, Indigenous  and Latino) who suffered contamination from the production of nuclear energy and nuclear and chemical weapons.  While Director of Strategy and Outreach for the Preamble Center, a small think tank, she facilitated the convening and incubation of the National Black Environmental and Economic Justice Network, composed of over 90 community-based organizations fighting environmental hazards in their communities.  She has over 25 years of experience in international, national and community activism.