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Meedie is a dedicated nursing leader with over a decade of acute care patient experience. She is focused on patient-centered models of care through multidisciplinary approaches and providing clinical leadership through role modeling, professional development and shared accountability. She has a BSN from Howard University and a MSN from Jacksonville University. She is the CEO, President and Founder of the Black Nurse Collaborative, the Chair of the DC Board of Nursing and a full-time Nurse Director in Surgical Oncology for MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member for Howard University and the Advisory Board Chair for FleetNurse, a non-profit organization.

Karen Days, MBA recently formed the consulting firm, K.S.D. Consulting, LLC. Her firm provides leadership coaching, new leader development, and conflict resolution training, all with an emphasis on advancing diversity and inclusion. Karen previously served in several different roles at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) for over 22 years. In her most recent position as Vice President for Corporate and Community Health Relations at NCH, Karen was responsible for developing and supporting the delivery of corporate and community wellness, prevention, and education efforts. Karen has spoken nationally and internationally on family violence prevention and treatment, and she continues to provide consulting and support to other cities/institutions seeking to initiate and develop similar infrastructure. Days graduated from Ohio State University in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and earned a Master of Business Administration from Ohio Dominican University in April 2009. She is a National Professional Certified Mediator and Mediator Training.

Dr. Jonathan Kotch, a board-certified medical specialist in pediatrics and preventive medicine, retired in 2016 after 38 years on the faculty of the Department of Maternal and Child Health of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Kotch was the lead researcher for the North Carolina cohort of LONGSCAN, Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect, which at the time was the longest (22 years) and the largest (1354 mother-infant pairs) ever funded by the Office of Child Abuse and Neglect of USDHHS. Dr. Kotch served for 8 years on the Advisory Board of the Durham Family Initiative, the precursor of FCI.