Staff + Board

Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, Executive Director

Lisa is a racial justice organizer, capacity builder, writer, and public speaker who has worked across movements for social and economic justice for the past twenty-five years. She has worked as a staff member within organizations as a capacity builder and has also worked as an independent consultant building a practice focused on capacity building and racial justice.

Her writings can be found in an anthology entitled Colonize This! Young Women of Color and Feminism, through an online writing project entitled Busting Binaries, which she co-authored with Ana Maurine Lara, and on the Bilerico Project Blog.

She is the former Southern and Midwest Regional Organizer for the National Office of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, founder of Intersections Consulting and the former Director of Capacity Building for the National LGBTQ Task Force. While at the Task Force she led a multi-year capacity building project for grassroots LGBT groups around the country as well as several racial justice projects within the Task Force. In her previous role, she was a co-director at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Stephanie Rodriguez, Director of Programs and Business Development

Stephanie oversees RoadMap’s major capacity building programs to directly support movement organizations in times of transformational change.

Stephanie is a social justice activist dedicated to advancing the voice of diverse communities around intersectional issues such as reproductive justice, immigration, LGBTQ, and transnational identity. Most recently she worked at the Mayor’s Office in New York City providing Capacity Building assistance and trainings to nonprofit organizations that serve New Yorkers. She has built expertise in collaborating with diverse communities to inform policy analysis at the federal, state, and city levels. Prior to that she worked for six years at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and managed campaigns for NYC Council candidates.

Rakita Lillard, Associate Director of Operations and Client Services

With over 15 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations nationally, Rakita has multifaceted experience from fundraising to development and special events. She believes the best part of her role is connecting directly with people and understanding their needs. Her passion for wellness reflects in her ability to find emergent ways to incorporate that into her work culture as well as the cultures of the organizations she supports.

Bev Tang, Program Coordinator

Growing up as a queer Chinese / Taiwanese in well-to-do neighborhoods of Southern California and partly in Taiwan shaped much of Bev’s very limited understanding of the world. Bev worked in various non-profits mostly with youth development and also spent several years in an education-workers union. Community organizing and the broader international solidarity movement—especially for the genuine liberation of the Philippines—has been pivotal in expanding Bev’s horizons and is a cornerstone in their development and current involvement. Bev jumped on the opportunity to work at RoadMap with the Weathering the Storms Program during a time when oppositional attacks to the progressive movement were again on the rise. A few years later, Bev took a step in their learning journey, to see what they could contribute to the deeply rich history of the people’s movements in Chicago.