Meet Your Guides

Meet Our Founder: Crystal Rozelle-Bennett

Crystal is a fierce Black woman who is committed to dismantling oppressive systems to create equitable and just services, policies and programs.  She is a mother, a military spouse, an entrepreneur and a self-proclaimed thriver who has dedicated the last 25 years of her life to healing from her own personal trauma and working with individuals and communities to create opportunities for healing that are trauma informed, culturally responsive and person centered.  When she isn’t working to plant and nourish the seeds for future generations she enjoys movie nights with her family, vacationing by the ocean and exploring the Southern California vineyards.  

Meet Our Guides

Crystal Rozelle-Bennett

Crystal Rozelle-Bennett

Fierce Defender of Truth
9 Courses
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Kiricka Yarbough Smith, MSW

Kiricka Yarbough Smith, MSW

Connector, Advocate, and Leader
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Aramide Adedeji, LICSW, LCSW-C

Aramide Adedeji, LICSW, LCSW-C

Healer and Storyteller
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Professor Elgrie J. Hurd III

Professor Elgrie J. Hurd III

Teacher, Facilitator, Storyteller, and Bridge Builder
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Jasmine Nutt, MSW

Jasmine Nutt, MSW

Weaver, Builder, and Disruptor
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Kendra Baldazo-Tudon

Kendra Baldazo-Tudon

5 Courses
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Tatiana Torres

Tatiana Torres

A Weaver and Builder
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LEVERAGE A GUIDE TO SUPPORT YOUR JOURNEY

At Ase Ubuntu, our Guides are more than educators—they are catalysts, companions, and co-creators in your journey toward justice, healing, and leadership.


Each Guide embodies one or more roles from Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Map—a powerful framework that helps us understand how people show up in movements for equity and liberation. Whether as healers, storytellers, builders, disruptors, caregivers, or visionaries, our Guides help you locate yourself within this ecosystem and navigate your professional path with clarity and purpose.


By working with our Guides, you will:

  • Discover and strengthen your own social change role

  • Reflect on your purpose and values as a leader, educator, or healer

  • Receive trauma-informed, justice-centered guidance

  • Be supported in growing your practice and your impact


We believe leadership doesn’t require perfection—just presence, intention, and the right community around you. That’s what our Guides offer.


Come as you are. Learn, lead, and liberate—together.

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