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Anjuli has been drawn to working with vulnerable populations in Colorado Springs for the last 15 years. After working with youth in foster care and corrections, she transitioned into being an Executive Director for an organization implementing the harm reduction model while caring for those transitioning out of homelessness, moving through the addiction recovery process, and with individuals moving out of incarceration and back into community. She found success in doubling the budget, designing and implementing three resident-driven housing programs, and expanding staff from two to ten individuals in just three years. Her focus on staff culture through the use of nonviolent communication and trauma-informed care provided the basis for centering relationship in the work. After having authored her first book, she has reconnected with her indigenous Punjabi roots as she brings her personal and professional experiences with her on a spirit-led journey that has brought the Ashes to Blossoms team together. She values power-sharing in organizations and in community, and she serves A2B as the CEO and Vision Leader.
As a young man, Kevin Mitchell had a life-defining experience that transformed into his raison d'être. Facing nearly impossible choices between family, loyalty, truth and self-preservation, Kevin has been in direct personal relationship with racial and social inequity, miscarriages of justice, biases within law enforcement, and the criminal justice system. Kevin knows firsthand the problems inherent in “the system;" and yet, he is not bitter, nor has he given up. The hip-hop artist, author, and poet has served as Chief of Staff & Criminal Justice Chair for the NAACP Colorado/Wyoming/Montana State Conference before moving on to be the Executive Director of Colorado Springs’s Empowerment Solidarity Network. He arrives at Ashes and Blossoms from Food to Power and currently sits on Mayor Yemi Mobolade's 2C Advisory Committee. Through this experience, Kevin learned how to involve thousands as agents of change, thereby creating, influencing, and changing public opinion. Kevin realized then that he is a born coalition builder, as one who blends community organizing, civic engagement, advocacy, and mass communications to maximize impact through strategic partnerships.
Originally from South Africa, Kim has lived most of his life in Colorado, where his family has long resided. As a former social studies instructor in South Korea, Colorado, and South Africa, he taught middle and high schoolers to think critically about the world. Wanting to better understand systemic inequities and community centered strategies of change, he earned his MA in Sustainable Communities form Northern Arizona University, working and learning alongside leading community activists in Arizona. Following this, he worked as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate admissions at a small liberal arts school. Part of the JEDI team there, he worked to identify and remove racial and gender-based barriers to college enrollment and student success. In his role as Director of Allyship, he is excited at the opportunity to help white and privileged communities learn what it means to be effective allies working for lasting and meaningful change in Colorado Springs.