Jamila Aisha Brown

Jamila Aisha Brown is an Afro-Latina communications consultant, trainer, and Associate Adjunct professor at New York University. She attended the CSS Advanced Training in 2019 and became a CSS Fellow in 2020. Jamila was educated as a political economist and stumbled into a career in digital communications because she was "the youngest person in the room and therefore understood social media." Her talent and passion for communications work grew beyond social media and email campaigns to include narrative development, writing, messaging, public speaking, and more. Her social entrepreneurship HUE provides strategic communications support to organizations throughout the African diaspora. Jamila descends from a long line of Black American, Caribbean, and Latin American storytellers and she honors her family by continuing and expanding the tradition of passing down oral histories from generation to generation.

Yee Won Chong

Yee Won Chong is a trainer and strategist. His consulting practice aims to increase organizations’ ability to fulfill its purpose by focusing on movement building, becoming more strategic, and creating inclusive organizational culture. He has trained employees of government agencies and colleges to create transgender-inclusive workplaces, coached community-based organizations on using racial equity strategies, and led nonprofits through real-time strategic planning.

Yee Won is also passionate about using storytelling to change hearts and minds. His TEDx Talk, “Beyond the Gender Binary,” is used widely to spark discussions about gender.  He actively works on expanding the definition of family through the Strong Family Movement. He has testified in front of Oregon state legislators and published “There’s More Than One Kind of Family — It’s Time Our Laws Include Everyone” in HuffPost. He is currently working on “Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer,” a film documentary highlighting his personal experience navigating the healthcare system as a transgender patient.

Reuben “Tihi” Hayslett

Board President

Reuben “Tihi” Hayslett is a queer activist, writer and storyteller who has been a part of the CSS training network since his first Advanced Training in 2015. While working as an online campaigner for the Working Families Party, Tihi won consumer campaigns against Netflix, UPS, and worked with a coalition to remove David Koch from the Boards of the Smithsonian and PBS. He currently works at Demand Progress, leading online campaigns in the tech sector focusing on privacy and human rights. Tihi holds an MFA in Creative Writing and his debut short story collection, Dark Corners, is published by Running Wild Press. As one of the few fluent Dothraki speakers in the world, Tihi recently worked on the upcoming Netflix series Daybreak as a Dothraki Language Consultant.

Angus Maguire

Angus Maguire is a parent, designer, organizer, artist, facilitator, communications strategist— master of none — Angus believes deeply in our collective capacity to self-govern. He is also a true believer in story-based strategy, using it for everything from eldercare and parenting, to direct action planning and organizing for futures beyond whiteness. Angus was previously a Communications Organizer with SEIU. He’s spent the last two decades creating visual communications with movements for collective liberation across the country. You can find Angus re-imagining home and community in Astoria, Oregon.

Seng So

Seng has been an activist in California’s immigrant and refugee communities since 2007. Today his work is focused on fighting for environmental justice for frontline communities with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN). In the 1980s Seng’s parents fled the Khmer genocide and settled in the Bay Area. It is from this history—the struggles and sacrifices of his ancestors—that paves his path today. At the heart of his life and work are three principles: community, love, liberation.