Lateefah Durant, Founder
Lateefah Durant is the Vice President of Innovation at CityWorks DC, a nonprofit working to ensure young people have the work experience, social capital, and credentials needed to compete for family-sustaining jobs in our region. Their programs are providing young adults with apprenticeship opportunities in high-demand, high-wage industries such as, IT and Finance and transformative career coaching to recent high school graduates. Lateefah previously managed over 30 Career and Technical Education programs serving 8,000 students for Prince George’s County Public Schools, including its Registered Apprenticeship Program.
Lateefah holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She is also an alumna of the Broad Residency for Urban Education. Lateefah currently serves a board member for the Legacy Company, a workforce development nonprofit and co-leads a faith-based initiative to improve employment opportunities for vulnerable populations. All of Lateefah’s endeavors reflect her commitment to help youth and young adults discover their purpose and provide them with access to educational and employment opportunities.
Michelle Hinton
Michelle Hinton serves as the Executive Director of Legacy Company and ensures service delivery and evaluation of Legacy’s transformative career exploration, college preparation, life planning and job placement program that equips young adults with the skills, resources and confidence needed to attain educational/employment success.
In addition, Ms.Hinton has provided health, social and educational services for over 25 years. As a Public Health Manager (retired) for the Prince George’s County Health Department, she was responsible for the administration of school-based health programs in Prince George’s County High Schools, as well as the oversight of maternity services and reproductive health care clinics. She also supervised county-wide HIV-AIDS prevention and transmission education programs for youth and young adults. Prior to her employment with Prince George’s County Government, Ms. Hinton was the Special Projects Director for a private non-profit organization in Philadelphia, where she was responsible for the administration and management of federal, state, and local grant funded programs. In that capacity, she implemented educational and clinical services for women in prison, as well as a best practice therapeutic model to address adjudicated and pre-adjudicated youth and young adults involved in antisocial behaviors. Ms. Hinton holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Temple University.
Kristy Love
Kristy Love is the Deputy Executive Director of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council of the District of Columbia (CJCC). The CJCC facilitates information sharing and collaboration; conducts research and analysis; and provides training and technical assistance for the District’s local and federal criminal justice and juvenile justice agencies. Ms. Love previously served as an Assistant Director in the Homeland Security and Justice division of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). While at GAO, Ms. Love managed over 40 evaluations of the federal government’s efforts to address a range of criminal justice issues, including human trafficking, sexual violence, child exploitation, corporate crime, victims’ rights, and defendants’ rights, among others.
Ms. Love received a B.A. in Mathematics and Political Science from the University of Rochester and a M.A. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Zipporah Miller
Dr. Zipporah Miller currently serves in a large public school system in Maryland overseeing teacher and leadership development initiatives. She has also served in STEM leadership positions in urban and suburban school districts in Maryland. At the national level, she directed the Association’s efforts in providing professional development and e-learning opportunities to teachers of science nationwide. She also led regional and national conferences, which draw more than 21,000 teachers annually; an online portal where thousands of teachers pursue quality professional development resources and specific science content; New Science Teacher Academy for middle and high school level teachers, focused on teacher retention and numerous specialized professional development initiatives.
Zipporah has a passion for providing opportunities for children to pursue and realize their dreams. She believes providing adults the necessary skill sets that will enable them to provide students and environment where they will thrive and strive to reach their highest potential.
Zipporah holds a bachelors degree from Chadron State College, a masters from Bowie State University and an educational doctorate degree from the University of Maryland College Park.