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.
Emmanuel Minko, Executive and Administrative Coordinator
Born in Gabon and raised between Gabon, France, Nigeria, and the U.S., Emmanuel Minko brings a culturally, emotionally, and mentally expansive lens to his approach. He is a bilingual (English/French) coordinator, audio engineer, music artist, and mental health/community advocate with efforts spanning a decade of supporting creative, legal, and mission-aligned environments.
From logistics to art, Minko’s journey aims to provide context for empathy, community, and freedom, and is rooted in a strong belief in collective care and collective awareness as the foundation for a meaningful shared human experience. This passion for the intersection of structure, belief and principle is at the heart of his ability and willingness to support the efforts the teams he is a part of.
His creative work as “Ya Minko”—a Washington Music Award nominated, member of the Recording Academy and mental health advocate—focuses on exploring sound while navigating themes of identity, wellness, mental health, community, passion, love and resilience.
