Education and economic power is the agency to transform your life. So, we focus on…

touching hearts so we can shift mindsets, and transform behaviors in order to connect people from devalued communities to educational and economic opportunities that advance their livelihood.

We believe

Students who experience suspension and expulsion are 10 times more likely to experience depression, dropping out, and incarceration.

The Sentencing Project, 2023

our team

Karen "Dr. K" Baptiste
Founder / CEO / Consultant

Edwin Walker
Creative Strategy Consultant/ Producer

Michelle Aldaz
Assistant

Samaiyah Steward
Producer Assistant

Thorin Daye
Consultant

Michellea "Redbird" Rucker
Consultant

Jennefer Witter
Consultant

Katelyn Johnson
Freelancer

Operate with Integrity

Challenge Injustice

Elevate & Protect Women

Restore Humanity

Operate with Integrity • Challenge Injustice • Elevate & Protect Women • Restore Humanity •

“Our team has been extraordinarily empowered and energized as a result of our professional learning experience with Dr. K. She has led us in a discovery process that was sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary to the development of fair and equitable programming designed to support each scholar with accessing our curriculum content. The development and execution of our district’s equity audit was collaborative, reflective, and dynamic and resulted in the curation of clear criteria for equity expectations in our standards-based curriculum plan documents and accompanying resources.  This learning journey led to the discovery of biases and inequities in our curriculum that will, now, be remedied in the best interest of each scholar we serve.  We now have a system to ensure that, moving forward, we engage in conscious, equitable practices when engaging in curriculum-based decision making.”

Dr. Kimberly M. Director of Curriculum & Instruction, St. Louis Public Schools

“Professional, engaging, and kind are just a few of the words I would use to describe Dr. Karen Baptiste. I have worked with Karen as a Board Member for Florida ASCD and as a Thinking Maps consultant. Dr. K embodies all the characteristics of an excellent facilitator leveraging her knowledge of how the brain best learns to empower educators to make a difference with the students they serve through impactful relationship building and engaging strategies. Additionally, Dr. K leads the way with her advocacy for policy and legislation changes to forever dismantle the preschool to prison pipeline. Always with a compassionate word, an infectious smile, and a listening ear, Dr. K is the epitome of just an incredible human being.”

James Dean Strategic Partnerships Executive, Thinking Maps, Inc.