Parenting for Liberation is powered by a small and passionate team of freedom-seeking and freedom-loving folks.
Meet our team!
Trina Greene
Founder & Executive Director
Recognized as an Inspirational Parent in 2018 by CADRE and as a Black Feminist Rising in 2017 by Black Women’s Blueprint, Trina Greene is a leader on the rise and she’s taking Black parents and children along with her to higher heights. As a proud Black-feminist Mama-activist, she founded Parenting for Liberation to support Black parents heal from & interrupt intergenerational violence to build resilient and joyful Black families in community. Trina lectures and writes on topics of African American families at Cal State Fullerton; her writing has been featured in “On Parenting” for the Washington Post, Essence magazine, LA Parent Magazine, and anthologies. Her book “Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children” debuted on Juneteenth 2020 by Feminist Press.
Lorena Estrella
Communications
Lorena is a first generation Dominican Jersey girl. She is deeply committed to equity and liberation work, and to centering and elevating the voices of young people of color in educational and movement spaces. In 2020, Lorena earned an MFA degree in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts. She is passionate about the arts as a means for social change and is always learning and seeking ways to make art and build community. Lorena loves breakfast any time of day, fresh flowers, plants of all sizes, traveling, making zines and scribbling poems.
Lesley Hairston
Director of Financial Operations
Like my mother, I delight in being a helper. I love to hear a new idea and throw my support and skillset behind it and the people who dreamed it up. My consulting work is my primary method for contributing to people and organizations doing exciting work.
My background is in accounting, but throughout my career I’ve managed a variety of operational and administrative responsibilities for the organizations I’ve worked with. I have experience with nonprofits, businesses, and creators. Now, I most want to support passionate people doing powerful work.
Marinne Nolen
Education Coordinator
Marinne Nolen was born and raised in Compton California. From a young age, her passion has always been working with youth and the arts. She worked at various preschools and elementary schools during the summer throughout high school teaching art and other recreational activities while being a part of the Compton Summer Youth program. With her love of the arts, she continued her education and earned a BFA in Fashion Design. Over the years, volunteering in youth activities, she has found what brings her heart joy, seeing youth with diverse abilities and backgrounds achieve goals that they deemed impossible. She is currently pursuing her Masters in special education with a teaching credential to work in her community as an educator and help to break barriers in the education system. In her free time, she loves being outdoors, camping, reading, and spending time with her family.
Innovation Team
paradyse oakley
Program Manager
paradyse oakley (she/her/they) Tongva Land -South Central Los Angeles,
California. paradyse is a recent graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz, majoring in Community Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Politics. paradyse identifies as an abolitionist, Black Feminist, Intersectional Environmentalist, and cultural worker.
paradyse is currently a Solís Policy Institute Fellow working on
legislation for incarcerated birthing individuals to have dignity concerning
Environmental Justice, Reproductive Justice and Community Care. A long time community member of South Central Los Angeles, paradyse lives her life with the love & dedication to her community in mind at all times. Inspired by the motto “see a need, fill a need;” she aims to use her skills and resourcefulness to aid her community’s needs. She is an advocate for taking as much time to rest as needed. She is a down to earth foodie ready to try amazing vegan food.
Brittany Brathwaite
Innovation Lab Designer & Facilitator
Brittany Brathwaite is a reproductive justice activist, youth worker and community accountable scholar with a deep-seated commitment for supporting the leadership, organizing, and healing of girls of color. Brittany has worked with several organizations across the United States to achieve this vision including Girls for Gender Equity, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, T.U.F.F. Girls, SOLHOT, Advocates for Youth, and the Young Women’s Initiative of NYC. Brittany has worked to create change in the lives of girls of color through local base building, advocacy, curriculum development, storytelling strategies and participatory action research.
Currently, Brittany is the co-Founder and Creative Director of KIMBRITIVE, a “traphiscated” black girl start-up unapologetically working to educate and empower communities about sexual health, reproductive justice and everything in between. Brittany holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology from Syracuse University, and a Double Masters in Public Health and Social Work from Columbia University. Brittany is a forever Brooklynite, dedicated to celebrating and protecting #blackgirlmagic.
Board Members
Latreasha Jackson
Reshona Benjamin
Angela McNair Turner
Jessica Ross