As an equity practitioner, creative activist, and scholar, Virginia’s work sits at the intersection of community equity and storytelling. As a racial justice educator Virginia supports the development of a culture equity, inclusion and belonging for organizations based in the U.S., Canada, UK, Switzerland, Australia and parts of Asia, working with clients such as Bumble, lululemon, Gensler, The World Economic and many more within the product, tech, art, design, start-up, nonprofit and wellness sectors. She currently acts as CEO and Co-Founder of Rosa Rebellion, a platform for creative activism by and for women of color. From 2016-2020 served as director of community engagement and social equity for The University of Texas at, helping drive the university's vision to become less of an ivory tower, and more of a community anchor, addressing issues of access and equity.

 

From 2020 – 2022 Virginia served on lululemon’s first ever IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action) Global Advisory Board, and in 2017 was appointed to the Mayor of Austin’s Taskforce on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities in. Given her commitment to disrupt systemic racism and build resources for inclusive practices, she's spoken at SXSW, SXSWEDU, TEDxUWA, University of East London’s Black Women Symposium and the University of Western Australia's Social Impact Conference.

 

Over the years, she been recognized for her work in racial justice, community equity and storytelling, receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award – outstanding Young Alum from The University of Texas at Austin in 2021; the 2019 Women of Distinction award from the Girl Scouts; 2018 Austin 40 Under 40 award; and in 2016, the Anti-Defamation League’s Social Justice Award. In 2018 she co- authored the book, As We Saw It: The Story of Integration at The University of Texas.

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Virginia is a native Austinite who resides in Brooklyn, New York, and holds a B.A. in history from Williams College and a M.A. in public affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.