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Shayla is a Detroit-based community organizer, storyteller, and activist whose work centers community power, collective care, and everyday acts of resistance. She is the founder and director of for good co., a consulting firm for organizations to build stronger programs, sustainable funding, and create lasting impact for good.

She began community organizing at only 15 years old. From leading regional climate resilience and water justice initiatives to building grassroots emergency and violence response efforts on Detroit’s East Side, she uses her talents to amplify grassroots voices. She’s worked in nonprofits most of her career, including grantmaking and project/program management efforts at Institute for Sustainable Communities and United Way.