Team Members
In The Public Way
Team Members
Beverly "BJ" Walker
President & Founder
BJ Walker offers passion, leadership and management experience from over 30 years of work in human services and education. She has successfully led reform efforts in state and local government and played key roles in promoting and supporting change and innovation in both the private and not for profit sectors.
David Martyn Conley
Actor, Writer and Director
David Martyn Conley is an Actor, Writer and Director known for Father’s Day (2018), Raising Izzie (2012) and D.N.R. (2010).
Ira Cutler
Public Sector Leader & Change Management Specialist
In his 40 year career focused on improving human services Cutler has been a direct service provider, line supervisor and administrator in county and state public agencies, a foundation executive and a consultant.
Diane Grigsby Jackson
Public Sector Leader & Change Management Specialist
Diane is a solution oriented senior leader with 25 years of experience in some of the country’s largest educational, health, and human service systems.
Dena Smith
Public Sector Leader & Change Management Specialist
Dena Smith is a Public Affairs Consultant with a focus in Media Relations, Issue Management and Community Marketing within the health and education arenas.
Sharif Walker
Youth and Community Development & Organizational Leadership Specialist
It is my personal mission and responsibility to advocate for, and develop transformative community constructs that help youth and their families thrive!
Cliff Freeman
Full Stack Developer
Cliff is a Tech Enthusiast, with a central focus on web based technologies that connect the world. His background is in Computer Information Systems, Technology Management and Education.
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Our Founder BJ Walker was published in The Imprint News. Read the blog post here or on ImprintNews.org
We have built a faulty system – one that defaults to “policing” families, when what is needed is a system that restores families.
BJ Walker, In The Public Way
We Need a New Business Model in Child Welfare
We have built a faulty system – one that defaults to “policing” families, when what is needed is a system that restores families.
The problem with public problems is that they do not really feel “public” until there is a tragedy or disaster. It is not that “We the Public” are unaware that something is wrong; we are just not intimately connected with the struggles waged by those living inside the problem.