N’COBRA PHL LEADERSHIP

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

Male Co-Chair of N’COBRA PHL, 2024

A business owner, mentor and employer of youth and young adult men in Philadelphia, and former UNIA 121 Division President, and activist and organizer in Philadelphia.

kingx@ncobraphl.org

Jessie Lee Keel

Female Co-Chair of N’COBRA PHL, 2024

jessie@ncobraphl.org

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