Board of Directors

Jenny Teague (she/her) is co-founder of NCCWJ and an Indigenous educator and advocate with 20+ years of experience in North Carolina nonprofit legislation, LGBTQIA2S+ advocacy, and advancing women’s access to higher education. She holds an M.A.Ed., M.S.A., and is pursuing an Ed.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jamie Locklear (she/her) is co-founder of NCCWJ and an Indigenous advocate for women and children with 15+ years of experience in domestic violence, sexual assault, and criminal justice across nonprofit and public sectors. She holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and is pursuing an M.A. in Sociology at Fayetteville State University. Locklear serves the U.S. Marine Corps as a Sexual Assault SME and is advancing her credentials through the National Organization for Victim Advocacy.

Dr. Clejetter Cousins (she/her) joined NCCWJ in 2021. Dr. Cousins is a journalism educator and former award-winning broadcast and print journalist with more than 20 years of newsroom experience across the Southeast. Since joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 2018, she has taught broadcast journalism and mass communication while advancing research on racial stereotyping in media. A 2022 Fellow of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University, she holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Regent University, along with graduate and undergraduate degrees from East Carolina University. 

Stephanie Hammond (she/her) is a founding director of NCCWJ and an experienced educator specializing in culturally competent literacy, ESL instruction, and immigrant student success in higher education. She holds a BA in Psychology and English Education, an MAEd, an MSA, and an Ed.S., and is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at Wingate University. Hammond  is recognized for advancing research and practice in inclusive, equitable education.