The H3R leadership network brings together changemakers, industry leaders, and visionaries who amplify our mission to empower women and girls globally.
Founder, Executive Director & Executive Producer
Nichelle Gainey is the Founder and Executive Producer of H3R Story, a women-led global movement equipping girls with leadership, digital literacy, and narrative power. With a career spanning sports, media, global events, storytelling, and strategic partnerships, Gainey brings a multidisciplinary perspective to building opportunities for women and girls. Her professional experience includes work connected to UN Women, FIFA, and CONCACAF. Through H3R, she is creating an integrated ecosystem that uses sports, storytelling, technology, media, and interactive education to help girls move from participation to leadership and ownership. H3R's work includes H3R PlaySmart™, an interactive learning experience designed to make digital citizenship, financial literacy, emerging technology, and ownership concepts accessible to young people. Gainey leads the organization with a focus on making the unseen seen and creating pathways for girls to discover their voice, develop skills, and shape their futures. Her vision is rooted in the belief that every girl should have the tools, access, and confidence to write her own story.
H3R Ambassador
• Emotional Intelligence & Resilience • Leadership Development • Public Speaking & Keynote Facilitation • Creative Arts & Performance Strategy • Personal Branding & Legacy Navigation
Rhonda equips leaders, including young women, with tools for inner clarity and confidence, helping them navigate societal pressures while embracing their identity. Her framework transforms emotional resilience into actionable leadership skills.
H3R Ambassador
• Leadership & Team Building • Community Development & Social Impact • Youth Empowerment & Mentorship • International Relations & Cultural Advocacy
Ilo brings a global perspective and a proven track record of fostering community impact, strengthening H3R's mission to expand access, mentorship, and leadership opportunities for girls worldwide.
H3R Youth Ambassadors represent the next generation of leaders and storytellers at the heart of the H3R movement. They bring firsthand perspectives as young women navigating education, sports, technology, media, culture, and a rapidly changing digital world. Their participation helps ensure that H3R's work remains connected to the experiences and aspirations of the girls it serves. Youth Ambassadors contribute to storytelling, demonstrations, community engagement, events, and conversations that help bring the H3R mission to life. They are not simply participants; they are voices helping shape how H3R communicates and delivers its work. Through their leadership, they demonstrate the importance of giving young people meaningful opportunities to speak, create, collaborate, and lead. H3R's youth leadership model recognizes that girls should have a seat at the table while programs are being developed for them. The Youth Ambassadors help make that principle real by bringing authenticity, energy, lived experience, and peer perspective to the movement. They embody H3R's belief that leadership begins when a girl understands that her story matters.
H3R Youth Ambassador
• Youth Leadership & Voice Amplification • Athletics & Team Building • Community Service, Volunteerism & Mentorship • Creative Arts, Music & Artistic Expression
Marli Dubroy is a dynamic young leader whose voice represents the next generation of changemakers. Through athletics, music, and community engagement, she works with youth and organizations to model resilience, creativity, and leadership, inspiring others to pursue their passions and impact their communities. Investors and stakeholders see in Marli the tangible power of H3R’s youth programs — demonstrating that investing in young women today produces confident leaders and innovators tomorrow. Her visibility and influence amplify H3R’s mission, inspiring engagement and trust across communities.
H3R Youth Ambassador
• Tech Media • OTT & Live Demo Storytelling • Youth Voice in Emerging Technology
Alexandra Alsobrooks-Laney is a Senior History major at Spelman College with a strong passion for juvenile justice and empowering youth and women through education, financial literacy, and mentorship. As a 2026 Harry S. Truman Scholarship Finalist and 2026 Yale Arthur Liman Public Interest Undergraduate Fellow, she is dedicated to expanding opportunities for young people by addressing systemic barriers and providing them with the knowledge, confidence, and resources needed to succeed. Through her work in public service and advocacy, Alexandra is committed to creating lasting change and helping the next generation realize their potential and lead with purpose.
Board Member/Officer, Global Partnerships & Philanthropic Giving
• Chair, Day1Sports • Director of Partnerships, Sir Clive Lloyd Healthcare Foundation • Board Member, The Four Knights Academy, Antigua • Former Chief Executive Officer, FairBreak Global • Ambassador & Trustee, Global Social Leaders, The Donne Foundation, Barnardo's & Centrepoint
• Strategy, Governance & Cross-Sector Collaboration • Global Partnerships & Philanthropic Giving • Psychotherapy & Executive Coaching for Women and Girls • Youth Development, Sport & Civic Society
Cheryll Rogers is a qualified psychotherapist and executive coach specializing in frameworks for women and girls, with philanthropic work spanning The Invictus Games, Help for Heroes, and support for refugee women, children, and displaced young people relocated to the UK. In Antigua, she funds and organizes educational programs and sits on the board of The Four Knights Academy; in Barbados, she partnered with Roland Butcher to launch the Barbados Royals Girls Cricket Club. She recently stepped down as CEO of FairBreak Global and now chairs Day1Sports, building a global cricket platform, while serving as Director of Partnerships for the Sir Clive Lloyd Healthcare Foundation. Known for her no-nonsense, hands-on leadership, Cheryll excels in strategy, governance, and collaboration across sport, government, and charity. She holds ambassador and trustee roles with Global Social Leaders, The Donne Foundation, Barnardo's, and Centrepoint, extending her impact across youth development and civic society.
Board Member/Officer,
Public Relations & Crisis Communications
• Public Relations & Communications • Crisis Management & Response • Media Relations & Storytelling • Brand Reputation & Positioning
Sarah Lenti supports H3R Story through public relations and crisis communications, helping the organization communicate clearly, responsibly, and strategically as it grows. For a mission-driven organization working across sports, media, technology, education, and global communities, reputation and trust are essential. Lenti's role supports H3R's ability to communicate its purpose, programs, partnerships, milestones, and impact while preparing for the communications challenges that can accompany a growing public-facing organization. Her work contributes to strengthening H3R's relationships with media, partners, stakeholders, and communities. Crisis communications is particularly important in helping organizations respond thoughtfully when circumstances change or difficult issues arise. Lenti's strategic communications perspective complements H3R's larger storytelling mission by helping ensure that the organization's external voice remains consistent with its values. Her contribution supports H3R's goal of making the unseen seen while protecting the credibility and trust necessary to build long-term relationships with girls, families, educators, partners, funders, and communities.
Board Member/Officer,
Technology & Digital Strategy
• Board Member, The Harris-Murphy Youth Foundation (THMYF) • Former Chief Technology Officer of Black & Veatch
• Technology Strategy & Innovation • Digital Transformation • Platform Development & Architecture • Data Privacy & Security
Christopher Murphy supports H3R Story through technology and digital strategy, helping the organization think about how technology can strengthen access, learning, community, and long-term impact. H3R views technology not simply as a product, but as infrastructure that can connect girls to knowledge, mentors, stories, and opportunities. Murphy's role supports that broader digital vision. His work is connected to the development of technology-enabled experiences that can make H3R's educational and storytelling programs more accessible and scalable. This includes thinking strategically about digital learning, interactive experiences, responsible technology, and the infrastructure required to support a growing global community. H3R's digital literacy work includes areas such as digital citizenship, financial literacy, and blockchain as civic infrastructure, making technology strategy an important part of the organization's mission. Murphy contributes to ensuring that the technology supporting H3R remains connected to the human purpose behind the platform: helping girls understand, navigate, and participate confidently in a digital world while maintaining safety, accessibility, and meaningful engagement.
Board Member/Officer,
Business Strategy and Partnerships
• FinTech Strategy and Scaling
• Revenue and Business Growth
• Strategic Risk Management
• Organizational Transformation and Innovation
Joel McPhee supports H3R Story through business strategy and strategic partnerships, helping translate the organization's mission into opportunities for sustainable growth, collaboration, and impact. His role is focused on strengthening relationships and identifying pathways that can connect H3R with organizations, brands, institutions, and leaders aligned with the mission of creating opportunity for girls. At H3R, partnerships are more than sponsorships; they are a mechanism for bringing together resources, expertise, technology, media, sports, education, and community to build lasting infrastructure. McPhee's contribution supports H3R's broader strategy of expanding its reach while remaining centered on girls' leadership, digital literacy, storytelling, and ownership readiness. His work helps create the connective tissue between H3R's vision and the organizations capable of helping scale it. As H3R grows, business strategy and partnership development will be essential to building a sustainable ecosystem capable of reaching girls across multiple cities, communities, and global markets. McPhee contributes to that growth by helping turn relationships into meaningful opportunities for collaboration and impact.
Board Member/Officer,
Localization & AI Language Operations Advisor
• AI-Driven Localization & Language Operations • Multilingual Content Infrastructure at Scale • CMS Integration & Human-in-the-Loop AI • Cross-Cultural Program Delivery & Training
David Jett supports H3R Story through localization and AI language operations, helping the organization think about how its educational and storytelling experiences can reach audiences across languages and cultures. His work is particularly relevant to H3R's global mission, where meaningful access requires more than translating words. It requires understanding context, culture, language, and the ways people learn and communicate. Jett's role supports H3R's ambition to create learning experiences that can connect girls across geographic and cultural boundaries while preserving the authenticity of their individual stories. His focus on AI and language operations also aligns with H3R's interest in emerging technology as a tool for expanding access to education and digital literacy. As H3R develops interactive experiences and global programming, localization becomes an important part of ensuring that girls can engage with content in ways that feel relevant and understandable. Jett contributes to that effort by helping H3R consider language, technology, accessibility, and cultural relevance as interconnected elements of a truly global platform.
Board Member/Officer,
501(c)(3) Strategic Counsel
• Board Member, Multiple Global and Nonprofit Boards • Advisory Council Member for Leading Academic Institutions
• Corporate Governance & Board Leadership • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy • Public Affairs, Communications & Stakeholder Relations • Leadership Development & Organizational Culture Transformation
Lori George provides strategic counsel to H3R Story in the area of 501(c)(3) nonprofit structure, governance, and organizational compliance. Her role supports H3R's commitment to building an organization that can grow responsibly while maintaining strong foundations for accountability, stewardship, and mission alignment. As H3R expands its programs, partnerships, fundraising, and community engagement, nonprofit strategy becomes an essential part of protecting the organization's purpose and ensuring that resources are used appropriately. George's counsel helps H3R navigate the organizational considerations associated with operating as a mission-driven nonprofit and developing sustainable systems for growth. Her work complements H3R's broader advisory needs across education, technology, child safety, partnerships, and nonprofit management. By helping strengthen the organization's structural foundation, George contributes to creating an environment where H3R can focus on its central mission: expanding opportunity for girls through sports, storytelling, technology, digital literacy, education, and leadership. Her role is an important part of building the governance and compliance infrastructure necessary for long-term impact.
Board Member/Officer,
Global Marketing Strategy & Brand Development
• Director of Global Marketing Innovation & New Products (Works with multinational corporations on strategy and growth) • Board Member, Early Signs of Dementia Awareness Initiative
• Strategic Product Innovation & Brand Development • Global Marketing Strategy & Cross‑Cultural Leadership • New Product Launch & Market Expansion • Customer Insight, Portfolio Management & Social Impact Advocacy
Andrea Lucas supports H3R Story through global marketing strategy and brand development, helping translate the organization's mission into a clear, compelling, and culturally resonant identity. H3R is built around a powerful idea: girls should have the opportunity to understand their value, develop their voice, and shape their future. Lucas's work helps communicate that idea to audiences across communities, partners, sponsors, media, and supporters. Her role encompasses the strategic development of H3R's brand presence and the messaging that connects the organization's programs to its larger purpose. H3R's identity is Her Roots. Her Rhythm. Her Rise.™ It reflects a commitment to honoring cultural heritage while creating pathways toward future leadership and opportunity. Lucas contributes to strengthening that identity across communications and experiences. Her work helps H3R tell its story consistently while building recognition and trust with the people and organizations needed to expand its impact. Through strategic marketing and brand development, she supports H3R's goal of making the unseen seen and bringing more people into the movement.
Board Member/Officer,
Education Strategy
• Experiential and transformational learning design
• Educational leadership, adaptive leadership
• Keynote speaking and facilitation
• Place-based and community connected learning
• Creative/Poetic pedagogy
Eder J. Williams-McKnight supports H3R Story's education strategy and contributes to the organization's work connecting learning with leadership, technology, sport, storytelling, and opportunity. H3R's educational model is designed to move beyond traditional instruction by creating experiences that help girls understand concepts through participation, storytelling, interactive learning, and real-world application. Williams-McKnight's role supports this broader educational vision. His work contributes to the development and refinement of educational content and strategy as H3R builds programming designed for girls across different communities and backgrounds. The organization's approach recognizes that girls need both knowledge and the confidence to apply that knowledge in their lives. This includes understanding financial literacy, digital citizenship, technology, leadership, and emerging systems that will shape the future. Williams-McKnight helps strengthen the education component of that mission, supporting H3R's goal of creating learning experiences that are accessible, engaging, culturally responsive, and connected to pathways for future leadership and ownership.
Board Member/Officer,
Marketing & Media Strategy
• Marketing Strategy & Brand Development • Media Planning & Partnerships • Digital Marketing & Social Media • Audience Growth & Engagement
Nicole Martin supports H3R Story through marketing and media strategy, helping expand the organization's visibility and connect its mission with the audiences it is designed to serve. H3R operates at the intersection of sports, media, storytelling, technology, education, and social impact, creating a need for communications strategies that can work across multiple platforms and communities. Martin's role supports that integrated approach by helping develop ways to communicate H3R's programs, stories, opportunities, and impact. Her work contributes to the broader effort to ensure that girls' experiences and voices are not only represented, but amplified. Marketing and media are important tools for H3R because they can help turn individual stories into broader conversations about access, leadership, digital literacy, opportunity, and ownership. Martin contributes to building those connections and strengthening the organization's ability to reach supporters, partners, educators, families, and young people. Her role helps H3R translate its mission into compelling communications that invite audiences to learn, engage, participate, and help make the unseen seen.
Board Member/Officer,
Education Strategy
• Student Achievement & Curriculum Innovation • Teacher Development & Instructional Leadership • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy • AVID Instruction & College/Career Readiness
Vanessa McTavish supports H3R Story's education strategy, contributing to the development of learning experiences designed to help girls build knowledge, confidence, leadership, and practical skills. Her work aligns with H3R's belief that education should be accessible, culturally relevant, engaging, and connected to real-world opportunity. Within H3R, education is not treated as a standalone subject; it is connected to sports, storytelling, technology, digital citizenship, financial literacy, and leadership. McTavish's role helps support this integrated approach by contributing to the educational framework behind H3R's programming. Her work is especially important as H3R develops interactive learning experiences intended to make complex subjects approachable for young people. Through this strategy, H3R seeks to help girls understand not only how systems work, but how they can participate in and eventually shape those systems. McTavish contributes to the organization's commitment to creating learning environments where girls can ask questions, develop skills, understand their value, and begin building the knowledge necessary to navigate an increasingly digital and interconnected world.
Board Member/Officer,
Filmmaker & Major Media Events
• Media Partnerships & Distribution • Major Event Production • Entertainment Industry Relations • Strategic Content Placement
Joshua Freeman supports H3R Story through media partnerships and major events, helping connect the organization's mission with audiences, platforms, organizations, and experiences capable of amplifying its reach. H3R uses storytelling, media, sports, and live experiences to make girls' voices and potential more visible, while creating opportunities for partners to participate in meaningful social impact. Freeman's role supports that strategy by helping develop relationships and opportunities around major events and media engagement. His work contributes to H3R's ability to transform events into platforms for storytelling, education, partnership development, and community connection. Major sporting and cultural moments provide an especially important opportunity for H3R because they bring together audiences that might not otherwise encounter conversations about girls' leadership, digital literacy, ownership, and access. Freeman helps support H3R's efforts to use those moments strategically. His contribution strengthens the organization's media and event ecosystem while helping create opportunities for H3R stories to reach broader audiences and inspire more people to become participants in the movement.
Board Member/Officer, Digital Strategy & Technology Governance
• Founder and Former Chair, Coca-Cola Women in Technology • Former Board Member, Women in Technology (WIT) Georgia
• Digital Product Strategy & Digital Transformation • Customer Experience & Product Governance • Organizational Change & Enterprise Delivery • Advancing Women, Youth & Underrepresented Communities in STEAM
Robbin Jones is a senior digital product leader with more than 15 years of experience driving digital transformation and product strategy at organizations including Black & Veatch, The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon Telematics, and Ceridian. Her expertise spans digital product strategy, customer experience, product governance, and organizational change, bringing a rare combination of enterprise-scale rigor and hands-on execution to every initiative she leads. Beyond her corporate career, Robbin is deeply committed to community impact, particularly in advancing women, youth, and underrepresented communities in technology and STEAM fields. She is the Founder and Former Chair of Coca-Cola Women in Technology and previously served on the board of Women in Technology (WIT) Georgia. She also volunteers with TAG, TechBridge, and Year Up. At H3R Story Foundation, she brings this same rigor and passion to advancing digital strategy and expanding pathways for girls in technology. Her leadership continues to open doors for the next generation.
Education Advisor
• Chief Business Officer, UNCF • Board Member and Executive Committee Member, A.J. Dwoskin & Associates • Co-Founder, Brilliant & Beautiful Foundation • President, Shaw University • Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Howard University
• Higher Education Leadership & Institutional Strategy • Enterprise Operations & Organizational Transformation • Crisis Leadership, Fundraising & Financial Sustainability • STEM Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Advancing Women in Science
Dr. Tashni-Ann Dubroy is an accomplished education executive, scientist, entrepreneur, and organizational leader whose career spans higher education, scientific research, business, and institutional leadership. She has served in senior leadership roles in higher education, including as President of Shaw University and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Howard University. Her multidisciplinary background reflects the kind of cross-sector leadership H3R seeks to cultivate in young people. Dr. Dubroy's experience in science, education, entrepreneurship, and organizational strategy provides an important perspective for H3R's education initiatives. She understands the importance of creating educational systems that prepare students not only to succeed academically, but to navigate changing technologies, industries, and opportunities. As an Education Advisor, she contributes perspective to H3R's effort to make learning engaging, relevant, and connected to real-world pathways. Her leadership supports H3R's belief that girls should have access to knowledge and networks that help them become confident participants in education, technology, business, sports, and leadership.