BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Founding Directors

Jenny Teague, President

Jenny Teague (she/her/hers) is co-founder of NCCWJ. A former teacher of the year award recipient and founder of the award-winning Torch, Teague is an Indigenous educator with over fifteen years of experience, her areas of research are North Carolina nonprofit legislation, LGBTQIA+ advocacy, and women's higher education access. She is currently an educator at a local university.

Jamie Locklear, Executive Director

Jamie Locklear (she/her/hers) is co-founder of NCCWJ. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Locklear is an indigenous advocate for women and children with over ten years of domestic violence, sexual assault, and criminal justice experience in both the non-profit and public sectors. Her current work includes pursuing licensure through the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime.

Stephanie Hammond

Stephanie Hammond (she/her/hers) joined NCCWJ in 2021 and is an experienced educator. Her areas of research are culturally-competent literacy education, English as a second language, and immigrants in higher education.

Cle Cousins

Cle Cousins (she/her/hers) joined NCCWJ in 2021 and has twenty years of newspaper and television experience. Cousins was awarded the South Carolina Press Association Award for Featuring Writing, The Cox Newspapers Award, the Southern Journalism Award, and was also a WNCT-TV news management team member when the station won the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

Arianna Vives

Arianna Vives (she/her/hers) joined NCCWJ in 2021 and is an undergraduate student at North Carolina State University pursuing a horticulture science and entrepreneurship degree. Vives successfully founded and operates a North Carolina small business.