Interim Executive Director

Jacqueline Brooks is a Chicago-born and raised nerd and the Deputy Director at Kairos. With experience in climate justice communications and educational coaching, Jacqueline leaped into the world of operations as their desire to understand and support the 'behind the scenes' work needed in movement spaces to continue on the path to Black and Brown liberation grew. Outside of Kairos, Jacky can be found supporting mutual aid projects and tenant organizing work with Not Me We, a South Shore based organizing project. They also serve as Board Chair for a Chicago-based youth organization that focuses youth organizing and political education via the Black Radical Tradition. You can also find them binging 90s anime and art journaling in their free time.

Senior Communications Strategist

Jelani is a Black, queer, organizer from the South dedicated to building power for their communities online and offline. Jelani enjoys long reads through Twitter and taking any chance to drag Big Tech CEOs. Jelani’s organizing interest is at the intersection of racial justice and technology. They dream about a world where tech works for all of us. But in the meantime, Jelani is working to help people understand how tech has a deep impact on our lives. Outside of Kairos, you can find them contemplating buying another camera, going on a hike, or diy-ing something at their house.

Organizing Manager

Kelvin Green II (he/him) is an Indigenous African American writer who organizes for racial justice in America. In the spirit of Toni Morrison who said, “If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else,” Kelvin has spent the last nine years organizing Black and Brown highschool and college students, respectively, at both Phillips Exeter Academy (PEA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) around racial & educational justice; as well as Massachusetts and New Hampshire voters in the 2020 presidential election and majority Black and immigrant voters in the City of Boston 2021 municipal election (Dorchester) for economic, voting, environmental, and otherwise justice. Kelvin comes to Kairos as an Organizing Manager with an excitement to fight for A People’s Web and support the work of power-building, justice-centered organizations at scale in the digital realm. He is a firm believer in the collective human power to both imagine a better world and manifest this world through discipline and joy.

Outside of Kairos, Kelvin can be found writing his first novel which explores themes of enslavement, love, solidarity, freedom, and manhood. Born and raised in Texas, Kelvin has also traveled the globe and is fluent in Mandarin. He is a proud Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Rho Nu Chapter, Fall 2018

Senior Campaigner

Irna Landrum is a Black Southern queerdo living in the Midwest whose entire career has been in pursuit of justice and liberation for Black and brown people. She has over 20 years of organizing experience in local communities like St. Paul's historic Rondo neighborhood and the redlined Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis. Irna has also organized in electoral campaigns, labor rights for childcare workers, democracy, and healthcare access. As a cultural strategist, she has facilitated culture change and employment equity in local, state, and national movement organizations. A Kairos Fellowship alum, she has spent nearly 8 years campaigning in the digital realm. Irna comes to the Kairos staff with a deep commitment to democracy as praxis. Outside of Kairos, you can find her writing about Black ancestral wounds, how her preschooler helps heal them, and why the Mississippi River holds her secrets and her heart.

Deputy Director of Programs & Strategy

Dom Leon-Davis is an organizer and strategist whose work focuses on mobilizing and empowering those closest to the impact of our most pressing issues: particularly Black, brown, and immigrant communities. He currently serves as Deputy Director of Program and Strategy at Kairos Fellowship and Kairos Action where he supports building movement digital organizing capacity and advocating for tech that works for all. Prior to Kairos, Dom served as Executive Director of the Digital Climate Coalition, and has been a senior staffer for several national, state, and local electoral campaigns. Outside of Kairos, Dom can be found playing rugby, nursing his bruises from rugby while playing video games, and being a washed up amateur music producer. He lives in Atlanta, GA with his two Mini Schnauzers, Raj and Rowan.

Development Manager

Zélie Lewis is a an educator at heart who believes in the power of information, exploration, and collaboration to build strong, supportive communities. Born and raised in rural New York, she has called many places home over the years and has learned from new experiences of community in each place. Bringing with her a background in administration and education, particularly in informal learning spaces, Zélie is the Development Manager at Kairos and supports the executive team in its administrative and development work. Outside of Kairos, she can be found running, visiting museums, or hosting game nights with friends.

Director of Learning and Analysis

Sijal is a Palestinian musician, cook, community organizer, and digital nerd with a deep love for everything North Carolina and the south. Before joining Kairos as a fellow in 2018 Sijal supported pivotal election victories in Durham, NC and organized committees of refugees and immigrants in the wake of rising islamophobia and xenophobia in the 2016 election and Trump era. As a digital strategist Sijal's work has been around reimagining what impact can look like for national digital campaigns and supporting state based power-building groups and election campaigns with their communications. His current work with Kairos is focused around embedding himself in digital spaces to listen, learn, and experiment with what is possible for the future of digital organizing in a rapidly changing online landscape. When he isn't working you can find him twiddling melodiously on his guitar in his band Dunums, beating the drum at protests or in his other band The Muslims, cooking something that smells good, or wrestling his toddler in the park.

Director of Operations & Finance

Claudia Saenz Lujan (she/her/ella) is a queer xicana, born and raised on both sides of the fictional border, who has dedicated her life to working alongside BIPOC/immigrant communities to build power for collective liberation. Claudia joins the Kairos team as the Director of Operations and Finance, bringing her sharp sense of structure, her love of organization and her joy for cultivating a culture of collaboration and care. Drawing on her background in community organizing and leading campaigns as part of grassroots organizations and unions, Claudia is committed to co-creating sustainable work spaces in service of these movements. She is driven by her love of people, the earth, and her puppy Panela, who she can be found cuddling with the majority of her time.