Meet the BB4C Team

  • Mercedes Brown is the Director of Race Equity Assessment at the Building Movement Project. In this new role, she is charged with launching and bringing to scale BMP’s new organizational race equity assessment process to better equip the nonprofit sector with the foundational capacities needed to build more racially equitable workplaces. Mercedes brings deep expertise in public policy, data analytics, and equitable cross-systems transformation through nearly 17 years of experience in the social services sector. Throughout her career in government and the nonprofit sector, she has always led with her passion for advancing social and racial justice through complex systems change.

  • Camryn Snell (she/hers) serves as the Race Equity Assessment Associate for the Building Movement Project. In this role, Camryn is charged with supporting the launch and development of the BB4C, BMP’s race equity assessment for nonprofit organizations. Ultimately, she aspires to motivate and support nonprofits in their development of the foundational capacities necessary for building more racially equitable workplaces. Camryn firmly believes that the current workplace culture is a reflection of our popular culture. As such, she hopes that these shifts will be realized throughout our communities.

    Camryn brings both lived and learned experiences to this role. The intersections of Camryn‘s identities make her uniquely prepared and knowledgeable of the necessity of normalizing, organizing, and operationalizing race equity efforts in all spaces. Camryn deeply values equity-oriented service and works to ensure that communities have the necessary tools and resources to affect sustainable change.

Advisory Committee

Through deep partnerships with national organizations in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) field, Building Movement Project (BMP) established a diverse committee of non-profit leaders, DEI consultants, and organizational capacity builders to provide strategic advisement on the development of the Building Blocks for Change (BB4C) racial equity assessment:

Nicola Chin, Up With Community

Glenn Harris, Race Forward 

Antionette Telez-Humble, Telez-Humble LLC

Helen Kim, RoadMap Consulting 

Lucy Mayo, Independent Consultant

Cynthia Parker, Interaction Institute for Social Change  

Kerrien Suarez, Equity In the Center 

Valerie Threfall, Listen for Good 

Developing the BB4C Assessment

Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead research series revealed the need for nonprofit organizations to invest more effort in advancing race equity in the sector. Seeing this need, BB4C was created to support nonprofit organizations to take their first steps in becoming more racially equitable. 

In addition to the Advisory Committee mentioned above, BB4C was also developed with the support of a diverse consulting team. The consultants involved are:


Makewell, Branding & Design Studio

Caroline McAndrews, Social Designer & Researcher

Bauer McCave, Data Science Consultant

Gerald Mitchell, Independent Consultant

Fiona Teng, Equity-informed Communications Consultant