SJREC Steering Committee

For more than 20 years, Nella Barkley has been helping people find their own personal career and life paths. Through strategic planning principles and her own innate drive to enable others, Nella has become a sought-after mentor, public speaker and

J. Goosby Smith serves as the University’s inaugural vice president for community belonging and chief diversity officer. Guided by God's call to unite God's people, Smith approaches her specialty areas of human diversity, inclusion, and belonging with intellectual rigor, methodological

Executive Director, YWCA Greater Charleston
Board of Directors, Enough Pie
Global Advisory Board Community Solutions

Founder and CEO of Barbados and the Carolinas Legacy Foundation
Barbados’ Honorary Consul to South Carolina

Chief Executive Officer Tri-County Cradle to Career Collaborative (TCCC)

Co-founded Pacifica Human Communications, LLC
Fellow of the Diversity Leaders Initiative of The Riley Institute
Founding board member of both Enough Pie and Lowcountry Local First