Eberechi Okwuwolu
Executive Director

Eberechi is the co-founder of Revivifyy, a charitable non-profit that addresses health inequity, and we center antiracist values as we provide community-based services, programs and research.

Eberechi is committed to building and strengthening inclusive communities, and believes in using his privilege to do anti-racism and anti-oppression work. He believes dismantling institutional and systemic barriers are essential for creating a society where everyone can thrive and be themselves.

Eberechi is also an interdisciplinary artist and the Chief Mindfulness Coach at Inclusifyy, an anti-racism organization that supports predominantly White institutions with equity, diversity, and inclusion audits, workshops, and consulting.

Amanda Fernandez
Strategy and Operations

Amanda is the founder of Inclusifyy, an antiracism organization that supports predominantly White organizations with equity, diversity and inclusion audits, workshops and consulting. Amanda is also the co-founder of Revivifyy, and she invests her skills, knowledge, and privilege into countering health inequity. Amanda has extensive experience with people-management, leading large-scale organizational change, project management, and overall business awesomeness.

Amanda believes in creating meaningful personal connections through empathetic listening, powerful story-telling, and salty language. She is a fan of quality whisky and bourbon, and her voice goes up two octaves when she sees any non-human animal.

Darrah (Pine) Beaver
Board Member

Darrah Beaver, a member of the Neqotkuk/Tobique Wolastoqey First Nation, New Brunswick. Darrah is a wife and mother of two, brings over 25 years of experience in working on Indigenous issues at the national, regional, and local levels in both the public and private sectors.

In 2023, Darrah served as the Executive Director for the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick, where she represented the six Wolastoqey communities in the province on matters regarding the duty to consult and accommodate.

With a strong commitment to educational sovereignty, Darrah has previously held the position of Director of Education in Neqotkuk. Early on in her career, she was a Senior Policy Advisor for the Federal Government in Land Claim Negotiations and Economic Development, as well as the Assembly of First Nations in Education, Jurisdiction and Governance.

A first generation post-secondary graduate, Darrah has been pursuing her PhD in Wolastoqey Language Revitalization at UNB Faculty of Education since 2018. Her research focuses on Neqotkuk, as well as broader efforts to revitalize the Wolastoqey language. She anticipates completing her doctorate in 2024.

Darrah is currently self-employed as the owner and operator of Qapit Indigenous Consulting Services.

amuna baraka-clarke
Board member

amuna baraka-clarke is passionate about access. She has spent decades strengthening organizational structures and practices to help forge pathways for marginalized communities. As a child of Caribbean immigrants, she grew up with a strong belief in family and community and the traditional African concept of Ubuntu. amuna works as an executive HR leader in the not-for-profit sector with an eye to dismantling barriers and co-creating structures for people to fully actualize. She is an avid community volunteer who is always ready for the next flight.

Krista Martinez
Board Member

Woman, mother and hairstylist. Krista is an independent woman who strives everyday to be a better version of herself in order to be the best mother to her incredibly, resilient son. Before becoming a mom, Krista found her first love 14 years ago when she pursued hairstyling at the age of 18. Krista graduated in 2010 and received the Merit award at Marca College. Soon after she started her career at a local Canadian beauty supply/hair salon company where she began as a junior stylist. Krista's persistence and determination to build a clientele was rewarding when becoming a Master Stylist after 4 years. Krista's work behind the chair didn't stop there, she has volunteered at her old high school for the cosmetology program to help encourage youth wanting to pursue hairstyling. She shared her passion for hair to inspire students to take the hairstyling path and enjoyed doing so. Krista is currently continuing her love of hair at Luminous Hair Salon, where she's been working at for the past 9 years. Also, Krista takes pride in her connections with people in her community and hopes she can make an impact with one client at a time. She values the 1 on 1, daily human interactions and it goes beyond just doing their hair. Krista is extremely grateful for the opportunity to connect with her clients from all walks of life, it creates an awareness of people's day to day experiences, life's milestones and everything in between. She is humbled to be a part of their lives and has every intention to strengthen those bonds each day in her career. Krista is looking forward to the future, to branch off and build a new business, give back to her community by helping and inspire anyone and everyone she comes across and to raise a young boy into a man, who then can carry on her legacy.

Mike Bettens
Board Member

Mike is regarded as one of Manitoba's top information technology executives and technical business CEO's. He is the founder and CEO of Unite Interactive, a Top Canadian Website Design and Digital Marketing Agency. Unite Interactive works with growth-oriented companies looking to drive more leads, conversions, customers and revenue in consulting, financial services, government, mining, manufacturing, construction, health, education, social services and other industries across Canada and the globe.

Mike is also a co-owner and managing director of Castellan Information Security, an advisory and consulting firm that specializes in information and cyber security services. Mike leads Castellan's strategic and tactical business development and marketing operations and planning.

Mike is an established community business leader and has taken senior roles in building community and local business development. This includes being a founding member of Canada's first Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and sitting on the Board of Directors of the Metis Economic Development Fund - Equity Investment Fund. Since its inception, the fund has invested nearly $11.3 million in the Indigenous community, leveraging an additional $28.2 million and creating more than 1,200 jobs.

Mike continues to serve on several boards and advisory committees, as he believes in a pay-it-forward approach to supporting diversity groups and other organizations that can benefit from his expertise and experiences.

Dr. Hadal El-Hadi
Board Member

Dr. Hadal El-Hadi is a resident of University of British Columbia's Public Health and Preventative Medicine Residency Program. She strongly believes in the importance of educating and motivating people into taking notice of injustices and working as a team to improve the lives of those around us. One of the biggest reasons she pursued medicine as a career was because she wanted to be part of a collective that helps children and adults in Canada and globally have a fighting chance to be happy. She recognizes, that given the history and nature of anti-Black racism in Canada and around the world, eradication would be very difficult to achieve. She is also a founder of Black Physicians of Canada. Her hopes for this organization is to have the best interest of Black Canadians at heart and as a fundamental priority create changes to the current system where she can and provide safety nets where she can't.