Co-Founders

Sharon Blalock and Krista Tillman, both from Charlotte, founded identiversity. They’ve combined their business operations, marketing, and community volunteer backgrounds to put together the identiversity team and ignite a one-of-a-kind community learning initiative.
Sharon has worked for years in marketing, public relations and sales in entertainment, as an entrepreneur, and in the nonprofit world. She helped launch proprietary entertainment concepts across the country, worked with some of the foremost names in the entertainment industry and has been responsible for the supervision of large diverse groups of employees.
Krista has an extensive corporate business background, including serving for 10 years as a corporate officer of a Fortune 50 technology company. She transitioned to academia and has served as an executive in residence at one of the largest campuses in the North Carolina university system. Krista is dedicated to community service, serving as a trustee and board member for a $3+B health system, various universities and civic organizations.
Team Members
Jessamyn Bowling, PhD
Curriculum and Research Advisor
Kathleen Clark, PhD
Chief Learning Officer
Wills Citty
Editor
Michael Dulin, MD, PhD
Research Advisor
Jake Higdon
Analytics and Marketing
Mary Johnson
Writer
Marise Kumar
Project Oversight
Florence Martin, PhD
Curriculum Adviser
Ryan Miller, PhD
Curriculum Advisor
Cherria Moore
Research Assistant