Plus, Romana Lee-Akiyama becomes the director of multicultural affairs at the Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Beth Miller leaves Community Design Collaborative, Erika Guadalupe Núñez heads up Juntos, and Alexia Doumbouya leads the Philly chapter of Walker's Legacy. Plus, power moves at LISC Philly, Hopeworks Camden, and more.

Also, a high-level move at International House and two senior staff hires at Project HOME; board of education appointees, new board members at PICC, and at Philadelphia Futures. Plus, honorees from Girl Scouts of Eastern PA and a kitchen table awardee at CCFWG.

"I’ve also been blessed with a very diverse staff, and I’ve seen that it makes clients more comfortable when coming to us at the most vulnerable points in their lives," says the leader of the Domestic Violence Center of Chester County.

Plus power moves at Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition.

News from Wharton Social Impact Initiative, Nationalities Service Center, Juvenile Law Center, Center City District, SBN, Office of Children and Families, Office of the Chief Integrity Officer, and Technically Media.

Is it a personal quality? A professional trajectory? A political imperative? Challenges to be confronted? Any combination of the above? Or something other? The leaders of color we asked weighed in on both negative and positive impacts.

Torres Colón, who died Feb. 5, is remembered professionally as a champion of equity and inclusion, and personally for his commitment to fostering and finding homes for senior and homeless dogs.