BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Vice Chair

    Finance Committee

  • Chair

    Programs and Governance Committees

    Archana A. Pathak is a scholar activist committed to visioning, creating and sustaining a just, inclusive world. Academically trained in Culture and Communication, she frames her work around the stories that we tell and are told about identity and privilege. She has done diversity and social justice work for over 20 years. Utilizing scholarly and community justice models,she explores the ways in which critical self-reflexivity begins and centers a journey of transformative social change. Dr. Pathak served as the founding director of VCU’s Q Collective. Dr. Pathak serves as faculty in the Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, affiliate faculty in the Department of African American Studies and the Media, Art & Text Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, she serves as interim assistant vice provost for faculty affairs in the Office of the Provost at VCU.

  • Programs Committee

  • Finance Committee

  • Development and Governance Committees

    Kevin W. Allison is a professor in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Psychology with an appointment in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Dr Allison currently serves as Chair of the Department of Psychology. He is interim co-chair of the VCU Q Collective, which “serves as a creative and intellectual hub in support of LGBTQIA+ artistic and scholarly activities among faculty, staff, students and the Greater Richmond community” and also serves as co-chair of the VCU ADVANCE-IT Grant Steering Committee, which seeks to transform VCU by increasing the recruitment, retention and advancement of STEM women faculty across intersecting identities. Dr. Allison previously held positions as Vice President for Strategy and Development, Senior Executive Director for Strategy and Administration in the

  • Programs Committee

  • Our newest board member is Michael-Birch Pierce. Michael is a fiber artist and assistant professor of Fashion Design at Virginia Commonwealth University. They received a BFA in Fashion Design from VCU and studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design for an MFA in Fibers. They have designed embellishment for Diane von Furstenberg and were lead stylist on André Leon Talley's Little Black Dress costume exhibition in Savannah and Paris. Michael has completed artist residencies in Hong Kong and Lacoste, France and their work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the White House, Design/Miami, and Quirk Gallery.

    They are the recipient of the 2016 Pollak Prize in Applied Arts. The newly elected Vice Chair of the Iridian Gallery at Diversity Richmond steering Committee, Michael has been an active member since its inception. They curated the exhibition, “Manufactured Faces, Performative Spaces” in 2015 and emceed the successful 2016 Bling it Out silent auction.

  • Development Committee

    Chris Moore is a writer, photographer, and community volunteer who has lived in Richmond since 1991. His work has appeared locally in Virginia Living, Style Weekly, 64 Magazine, and Richmond Family Magazine. As a community volunteer and advocate, Chris has served on the Boards of Directors of Peter Paul Development Center, Virginia Supportive Housing, VCU College of Humanities & Sciences (Advisory Board), St. James’s Children’s Center, ACTS (Area Congregations Together in Service), James River Writers, and Friends of the Richmond Public Library.

    Chris and his wife, Dena, have two sons, Ben and Sam.

  • Development Committee

    Joe Cox joined our board in June 2021. Before joining the board, Joe served as a volunteer with Diversity working closely with the Iridian Gallery committee and providing needed help to install shows. He also helps to coordinate our work with CapitalOne, which has been a major corporate contributor of Virginia Pride for more than 10 years

    Joe has seventeen years business experience with strong focus on project, relationship, and product management. We are thrilled to have his expertise added to our board!

  • Bio coming soon!

  • Governance Committee

  • Sarah E. Cribbs, Ph.D., is a passionate DEI leader, researcher, and human-centered problem solver with experience and proven success partnering cross-organizationally to plan, design, develop and deliver sustained and sustainable progress across multiple industries. She is currently an associate professor of sociology at Randolph-Macon College where she teaches courses related to social identities, social inequalities, and research methods. She is an affiliated faculty member with the Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program, Black Studies Program, and serves as the Director of the RMC Honors Program. Her research interests include examining pathways to improve intercultural competence, studying how individuals accomplish racial boundary-making, and exploring how racial attitudes influence policy decisions.