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Amiee holds a degree in Sociology from Columbia State and is pursuing her BSW-MSW-JD from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Throughout her college career, Amiee has received multiple accolades, including election to the Tennessee Board of Regents and Chief Justice of the Tennessee Intercollegiate Student Legislature, honored as an international finalist in the Phi Theta Kappa Prepared Speech Competition, recipient of the Columbia State Outstanding Student in Sociology Award, selected as a Cengage International Scholar, and recipient of the Nashville Black Pride Scholarship. At the University of Tennessee, Amiee is a College of Social Work Student Ambassador and serves on the Dean’s Student Advisory Council. She is also a member of the Collation of Black Social Workers. Amiee is the DEI Representative for the Bachelors Social Work Association and in 2022 was named a Distinguished Social Work Student.

Amiee is a graduate of Nashville Young Leaders Council and was nominated for the YLC’s Young Leader of the Year 2021. She currently serves on the board for Nashville Launchpad and AWAKE Nashville. In 2022, Amiee was recognized as one of Nashville Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

Amiee is the Education and Training Manager for people3, Inc.

At Northwestern University, working in the Office of Social Justice Education with Peer Inclusion Educators, she coached and trained students to facilitate dialogues on power, privilege, and oppression. During this time, she created curriculum for the program, its workshops, and its participants covering topics such as microaggressions, womanism, indigenous sovereignty, navigating leadership & implicit bias, masculinity, and others. Soteria’s DEI philosophy centers on understanding people and their experiences and crafting solutions based on them.

Soteria was the creator and inaugural holder of the Executive Office of Justice and Inclusion in Northwestern’s student government where she implemented systems and policies to ensure the student government and the university was more equitable. She was recognized for these efforts with awards given to only 2 students on campus each year – the Social Justice Impact Award in 2020 and the Vice President’s Award of Excellence in 2021.

Soteria is the DEI Project Manager for people3, Inc.

As a student at Hume-Fogg Academic high school, Rachel was awarded the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony award for “Demonstrated Commitment to Understanding and Addressing Difficult Social Issues.” At Northwestern University, where she graduated with honors, Rachel completed a B.S. in Human Development and Psychological Services, a minor in Asian American studies, and a Certificate of Civic Engagement in the School of Education and Social Policy. Her Senior Honors thesis was a qualitative research paper that explores the socio-emotional impacts of misnaming and misidentification of Asian identifying women in White sororities entitled, “That’s Not My Name.” Rachel previously served as a Peer Leader and Teacher’s Aide in the SESP Leadership Institute at Northwestern University, a program for First Generation and/or Low Income first and second year students, dedicated to equitable and inclusive college education. This program included a course called “Culture and Cognition” that focuses on how different cultural and socioeconomical contexts influence learning in individuals from a pedagogical perspective, giving her a theoretical background on diversity in education.

During her undergraduate studies, she was involved in an organization called Students Organized for Labor Rights (SOLR), which focuses on building coalitions with campus workers for their labor rights. As a QuestBridge scholar, she is an advocate for educational accessibility for low-income students. She is extremely passionate about immigration rights and plans to be a Public-Interest Lawyer with a specialized field in Immigration Law.