Participatory Decision-Making Working Group
The Hive Fund relies on participatory decision-making at all levels to remain accountable to and reflective of grantee partners. The Participatory Decision-Making Working Group (PDWG) helped design the values-based guidance Hive Fund uses for grant practices and decision-making. The group contributes to a culture of shared learning and helps hold Hive Fund accountable to our values in practice.
Nakisa Glover (she/her)
North Carolina
Founding Co-Director, Sol Nation
Nakisa Glover is a climate and environmental justice practitioner, thought leader, tech advocate, cultural consultant, and community engagement expert. Nakisa actively develops strategies across activism, films, music, and podcasts to help engage and activate millennials, Gen Z, artists, entertainers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and other climate experts. She founded Sol Nation, where she advocates for real SOLutions on behalf of the communities she serves. She is also involved with Girls Who Code as a former Regional Partnership Coordinator, where she closes gender and diversity gaps in technology, and is a Think 100% Organizer for the Hip Hop Caucus, where she highlights solutions to climate change and environmental injustices, to help make Think 100% The Coolest place in the climate movement. She has been recognized as a 2019 Grist 50 Fixer, with the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr Growing The Dream Award, and the 2016 Clean Air Carolina Airkeeper Award.
E Lim (they/them)
Georgia
Director of Southern Regional Strategy, Demo Lab South
Born and raised in Atlanta, E Lim began organizing in Atlanta’s AAPI communities in 2015 during an internship with Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta. They continued to organize around housing and racial justice on campus before graduating from New York University with a B.A. in Systems of Power and Inequality in the United States. Afterward, they worked on electoral and issue campaigns in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, and Muncie before returning to Georgia in 2017 to build power with the immigrant communities that raised them. They now co-lead the Demo Lab South project as Advancing Justice - Atlanta's Director of Southern Regional Strategy, supporting key AAPI organizations and leaders throughout the region. Outside of their day job, they focus primarily on cultural, transformative, and healing justice organizing in QTBIPOC communities in and around Atlanta.
Naeema Muhammad
North Carolina
Senior Advisor, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
The Network promotes health and environmental equality for all people of North Carolina through community action for clean industry, safe workplaces, and fair access to all human and natural resources. Naeema has worked tirelessly to hold the hog industry accountable for the pollution it produces that disproportionately impacts the lives of African Americans living in rural North Carolina counties.
Roishetta Ozane (she/her)
Louisiana
Community Organizer, Healthy Gulf and The Vessel Project of Louisiana
Roishetta is a Community Organizer for Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas with Healthy Gulf organizing against Liquified Natural Gas and Petrochemical industry buildout. Roishetta is a She Leads Fellow for the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice where she empowers other women of color to go out into their communities and make positive change. Roishetta is the founder of The Vessel Project of Louisiana--a small mutual aid organization located in Southwest Louisiana that was founded in the aftermath of several disasters that ravished Southwest Louisiana.
To ensure cross-pollination between Hive Fund’s two main advisory bodies, Advisory Board Members Esther Calhoun and Yeshaq Tekola serve as liaisons to the PDWG.