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Kaci is the Founder and Chief Architect of Social Good Solutions (SGS), a Black woman-owned and operated boutique consulting firm in Los Angeles. The firm works with philanthropic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies to design, operationalize and manage strategic initiatives from concept to implementation, using racial justice and participatory co-design to ground and guide its work.
Prior to consulting, Kaci held entry-to-executive-level roles within the nonprofit sector, leading capacity building, education advocacy and social justice initiatives where she facilitated networks of organizations and served over 1,000 civil society leaders and public officials worldwide. In addition to managing multi-million-dollar grant-making portfolios in the United States and abroad, Kaci created programs recognized as breakthrough contributions in her field: the School Boards and Community Engagement Initiative (2011), B.L.A.C.C. (Building Leaders and Cultivating Change), a grassroots social activism fund (2014), and the Black Equity Initiative/Black Equity Collective (2017/2021).
She was named a California Community Foundation Unsung Hero of Los Angeles for her work with the BLACC Fund (2016); honored with the Wally Marks Change-Maker of the Year award by Liberty Hill Foundation (2017); chosen as a LA CAN Freedom Now award recipient (2019) and as Philanthropist of the Year by Youth with a Purpose (2021).
Kaci served as Chief Strategist of the Black Equity Initiative from 2017-2021, a racial justice philanthropic initiative she designed and pioneered, and now serves as the Founder and Chief Architect of the Black Equity Collective, which launched in January 2021 under her leadership.
Kaci sits on the board of Social Justice Partners—Los Angeles, Tides Advocacy, and was a state commissioner in the CA Department of Consumer Affairs from 2014 to 2022. She is a certified mediator, a graduate of Pepperdine University and holds an MBA in Organizational Management & Leadership from the University of LaVerne.
Kaci is a Fellow of the Civil Society Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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