Monique “Moe” Brown (she/her Black)

As a member of the Steering Committee which established Challenging Racism as a non-profit organization, Moe Brown joined the Board of Directors upon its creation in 2017. She is a 2015 alumna of Challenging Racism: Learning How. Moe has facilitated four Learning How groups since completing Challenging Racism: Learning to Lead facilitator training in 2016. Moe volunteered at The Reading Connection and currently serves on Advisory Committees and the PTA. She attended Howard University and Northern Virginia Community College and has two children in Arlington Public Schools. Moe was born in Arlington and identifies as African American.

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Nancy Brown (she, her / white)

Chair, External Affairs Committee
Nancy Brown joined the Board in its first year as a non-profit. She is a 2016 alumna of Challenging Racism: Learning How and completed Challenging Racism: Learning to Lead facilitator training in 2016. She was active in the Wakefield High School PTSA for several years, serving as Vice President and as the school representative for the APS Council on Instruction. She now volunteers with various church and community organizations. Her two children graduated from APS schools. A physical therapist (BS, Biology, MPT in Physical Therapy, MS in Orthopedic Sports Physical Therapy), she served in the Navy as a physical therapist and continues part-time in retirement. She was born in Alexandria, VA, and has lived in Arlington since 2003. She identifies as white and, with her African American husband, is raising two bi-racial children.

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Alicia Puente Cackley (she, her / white Mexican- American)

Board Chair 
A 29-year resident of Arlington, Alicia Puente Cackley serves as Chair of the Challenging Racism Board of Directors. She is a 2015 alumna of Challenging Racism: Learning How and in 2015 was a founding member of the Steering Committee that eventually established Challenging Racism as an educational non-profit organization in 2017. Alicia has served as PTA President at Key Elementary and on several APS-wide committees. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Educational Theatre Company, a non-profit dedicated to unlocking the potential of children and adults through immersion in theatre arts. Her four children all graduated from Arlington Public Schools, including Key Elementary Immersion Program and Wakefield, Washington-Lee and H.B. Woodlawn High Schools. Alicia holds a PhD in Economics from University of Michigan. Alicia was born in the United States and identifies as Mexican-American.

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Frank Smith

Treasurer

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Tish Jenkins (she, her / white European-American)

Secretary
​Following her participation in Challenging Racism: Learning How in 2013-14, Tish Jenkins joined the Challenging Racism Steering Committee as Secretary and then moved on to the Board of Directors. Tish chairs the Governance Committee. She volunteers teaching ESL classes to adult English language learners and has served two terms as President of the Washington-Liberty PTA and one term as President of the Swanson PTA. She is the parent of three children who attended Arlington Public Schools. Tish is Mid-Atlantic Regional Sales Director for Cyber Security firm Bandura Cyber and previously worked for Level 3 Communications and Verizon. She received a BS in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has lived in Arlington her entire adult life after college. Tish identifies as white of primarily Irish descent.