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Leadership

Leadership and board

Our board and leadership bring lived experience, community organizing, psychology, governance, and wellness expertise to this work.

Founders

Caliph Muab-El

Founder

Founder of Breaking Barriers Mentoring, working since 2013 to build community-led mentoring, healing, and violence-prevention efforts across Wisconsin for people impacted by incarceration.

Board Officers

Beatrice Cuna

President

Beatrice Cuna is a dedicated community leader, hardworking professional, wife, and mother who brings exceptional commitment and reliability to Breaking Barriers Mentoring. While balancing multiple professional and family responsibilities, s…

Board Officers

XONAH'EL

Vice President

Xonah'el is an entrepreneur, author, and community builder passionate about truth, healing, and liberation. As the founder of multiple mission-driven companies, Xonah'el focuses on awakening consciousness, restoring sovereignty, and creatin…

Board Officers

Harrison F. Gray

Treasurer

Founder and managing executive of a strategic solutions firm and a disabled veteran whose work centers on mentorship, governance, and removing structural barriers to opportunity. As Treasurer, he supports financial oversight, fiscal account…

Board Members

Eric Howland

Board Member

Serving on the board since 2014. Community psychologist by training and former executive director of a Madison community technology nonprofit, with long-standing leadership in Wisconsin justice-reform organizing.

Board Members

LaDonna L. Gray

Board Member

Community advocate, writer, and wellness-focused leader with a background in youth development, program coordination, and community engagement, with a particular commitment to single parents and veterans.

Board Members

William Harrell

Board Member

Milwaukee community organizer focused on reentry support and criminal legal reform, and co-founder of a sober-living reentry house. Serves on several Wisconsin community and health boards.

Board Members

Annette Jackson

Board Member

Board member supporting BBMI's community programming and organizational governance.

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