N'COBRA PHL LEADERSHIP
N’COBRA PHL is the Philadelphia chapter of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, since 1995. N’COBRA PHL develops reparations programs for the redress of Black and African American descendants of enslaved Africans, descendants of Black and Negro and Colored Americans, and descendants of American Freedmen emancipated from slavery in the United States. N’COBRA PHL operates its independent nonprofit infrastructure from affiliate N’COBRA chapters and subsidiaries, and works alongside academics, historians, social service professionals, economic experts, members of the faith community, members of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania legislature, and the greater Philadelphia and global community.
King X
X is a small business owner and employer of youth and young adult men in Philadelphia. He is an avid community organizer, youth mentor, father, and leading activist in his community.
X is a West Philadelphia native who grew up through poverty in what most would call a dangerous living environment. That environment made him what he is today. Once he began to gain real knowledge and understanding of the world and who he was, he began to walk in his purpose and carry out his responsibilities is as a Black man; a King. X used his organizing and entrepreneurial experiences to lead as a President in the UNIA 121 Division, joined N’COBRA PHL in 2022 and now serves as the co-chair of the chapter.
Jessie Lee Keel
Jessie Keel is a community organizer, youth advocate, and nonprofit consultant dedicated to “Healing the Future.” Witnessing the struggles of youth in foster care, juvenile delinquency, and homelessness firsthand shaped her mission. She was impacted by these systems at 19 and committed herself to community restoration, justice, and strength-based approaches. Jessie believes in is currently a Spatial Reparations Fellow with PolicyLink curating Youth Advised Leadership Training and Community Care Practices, the co-organizer of Youth Development with The Womanist Working Collective, a youth mentor with WeLovePhilly, a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and the female co-chair of N’COBRA PHL.
Rashaun Williams
Rashaun Roy Williams, aka, DJ Reezey, is an altruist who builds systems for humanities, human rights and human ecology. He co-founded Phresh Philly in 2011 to advocate for clean, healthy, and green neighborhoods in Philadelphia, and directed OIC of America’s FLASH Initiative in 2011 to expand career education, internships, and entrepreneurship opportunities for high school students across the City of Philadelphia. In 2013, he was awarded the Black Male Engagement Award by the Knight Foundation and began co-creating national programs with Black male innovators, leaders, and public servants from communities across the United States. In 2014, he supported a dozen grantees managing thousands of dollars in startup capital for their social enterprises and nonprofits through Mobilize.org and built the Mobilizer Academy in Philadelphia. This led to his community programs management at Impact Hub PHL for artists, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and community members alike. He provided the Watson Institute in Boulder, CO, the expertise and human capital needed to establish a school of social entrepreneurship in Philadelphia and offered millennials from across the world a crash course in social entrepreneurship, and was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award by The Corporation for National and Community Service and The White House in 2015. He later developed trauma-informed out-of-school summer camps and afterschool programs at the Beckett Life Center throughout 2017 and led West Philadelphia’s Workshop School’s youth entrepreneurship program to help students build businesses and create job opportunities in 2018. In 2020, he was elected co-chair of the Philadelphia chapter of N’COBRA while expanding his work in journalism and public media through WHYY’s News & Information Community Exchange. Through the intersection of his leadership, he co-created “The Atonement Agenda”, a three-part PBS television series on reparations in Philadelphia and continued leading volunteers and organizations to advocate for reparations legislation, authoring the Philadelphia Reparations Task Force to which he began co-chairing in June of 2023. Now, he is an advisor for leaders and organizations who are invested into building better systems of human ecology for humanity.
Contact N’COBRA PHL via info@ncobraphl.org