Jakada is a spiritually rooted coach with over 30 years of experience in social justice movements. His leadership perspective is steeped in the Black freedom struggle, and he has been blessed to learn from some of the best leaders in the country, such as Erica Huggins, Amaha Kassa, and Boots Riley. Before becoming the CEO, Jakada was a coach at The Management Center, supporting clients such as Stacey Abrams's Fair Fight and the California Immigrant Policy Center. He served for six years as executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, taking over from the center's founder, Van Jones. During his tenure at EBC, he led the efforts to stop the construction of one of the nation's largest juvenile halls—a “Super Jail for Kids.” He also led two successful statewide ballot measure campaigns, No on Prop 6 in 2008 and No on Prop 23 in 2010. In 2013, he received a ChangeMaker Fellowship from the Pacific School of Religion, where he led a center for spiritual and social transformation. He is blessed to share his life with his wife Laura, and their blended family of six powerful and creative children.
MONNA WONG
Monna is a network weaver, facilitator, organizer, and writer from Queens, New York. She was politicized in New York City's ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month, and much more.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
