Black Women in Leadership Affinity Group Presents: Changing the Narrative from Angry to Phenomenal

Dr. Robin Beavers is a community engagement and outreach specialist dedicated to developing and managing programs that promote the wellness, equity, and inclusion of all people in our society. For over 20 years she has served as a higher education and career development professional. In recent years, she has moved into the world of philanthropy, hoping to inspire others to invest time and finances to help all communities thrive. She currently serves as the vice president of philanthropy & DEI initiatives at Trillium Family Services located in Oregon.

LaTasha Roberson-Guifarro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that believes all should aspire to make an indelible impact of excellence in our world. She has committed to being a thought leader and executor of achieving systemic results in human service and technology sectors through learning, creating, and implementing solutions in collaboration with children, families, communities, and institutions. She has held direct service and progressing levels of leadership roles in child welfare, clinical services, training, policy development, advocacy, program and risk management, strategic planning, and continuous quality improvement (CQI). Roberson-Guifarro currently serves as the associate vice president of child welfare, strategy & organizational excellence, privacy officer at one of the largest child welfare and adoption agencies in Illinois, Lutheran Child & Family Services. She describes her role within her organization as a call to inspire, challenge, and equip stakeholders to consistently ask, answer, and respond to: How are we doing? How do we know? How do we prove and/or improve our efforts and strategically achieve desired social impact results? Roberson-Guifarro earned her master’s in social work from Washington University in St. Louis. She serves as a COA Accreditation peer reviewer, and she is the leader/member of various agency, state, and national advisory boards geared toward resource and systems transformation, children and family advancement, workforce professional development and stability, race and LGBTQI+ equity and affirming care, social justice, and innovation. Roberson-Guifarro shares her ultimate aim is to electrify sustainable, collective power and capacity for evolving our tomorrows.

Dr. Natasha Watson Mack has over 20 years of human service experience as a certified domestic violence and sexual assault counselor working with men who have been physically, emotionally, sexually, psychologically, and economically abusive to their partners, and as crisis intervention counselor at an agency for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She does extensive work with teens in the area of sexual dating violence and safer sex practices. She served as COO of a nonprofit men’s program for seven years. She currently serves as a senior administrator in child protective services supervising directors who work primarily with child survivors of sexual assault. Mack’s core expertise is in counseling, education, program management, and operations.

She attended City University of New York for her undergraduate education. She then attended Lincoln University, where she studied human services and earned a master’s degree. At Widener University, she studied human sexuality earning her second master’s degree. She also obtained her doctorate in human sexuality at Widener University. At Cornell university, Mack earned a certification in Diversity and Inclusion. She has also established her own professional relationship and sexuality coaching, counseling, and educating business. She does individual sessions as well as groups, workshops, seminars, and professional presentations. She created a series of seminars titled “Developing Healthy Sexuality through Sisterhood,” which were designed to empower women to live sex-positive lives and has most recently developed a “Healing Space” for women to discuss trauma around sex and relationships. In addition, she does sexual harassment trainings for private businesses and corporations.

At present, Mack is a member of The National Association of Forensic Counselors, The Alliance of Black Social Workers, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, The American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists, Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in the Social Sciences, Gamma Eta Rho National Honor Society in Human Sexuality, Iota Iota Iota National Honor Society in Women’s and Gender Studies, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. She brings a tremendous amount of insight to services, reflected in the success stories of the populations she serves.