Board of Directors

Mr. Botts experienced the need for a deep connection and relationship with God through Christ Jesus early in life. As a teenager, he heard the call to Pastor and began a thirty-year journey of wrestling with how to fulfill this most high calling. In June of 2020, Mr. Botts and his family took the first big step in living out the call to Pastor with the establishment of a fully-digital ministry called, My Connected Church (MCC). The vision of MCC is to establish a space in the world where everyone sees God in everyone else by promoting righteousness and restorative justice. Their church achieves this vision by living out its mission through the four-fold ministry plan of B.I.N.D.ing (Building, Investing, Nurturing and Developing) the world to God and each other.

 

As a father of three children and the husband of one wife, Mr. Botts’ first ministry is to his family. He strives to lead his family with faith, grace, and compassion, encouraging each of them to pursue an individual relationship with Jesus, while cultivating a spirit of love, worship and connection in their home.

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As an entrepreneur, Mr. Botts is the Principal of Mentor Manage Consulting, a workforce development and youth services consulting firm. This work allows him to live each day as a servant leader, supporting organizations and individuals in achieving their growth and success goals. Nationally-recognized as a consultant, trainer, and public speaker, Mr. Botts has shared insights and knowledge across the United States to support programmatic innovations and to help improve outcomes through inclusivity, diversity, equity, belonging, and culture building.

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Lastly, as a devoted community leader, committed to a life of service, Mr. Botts currently serves locally in the town of East Hartford, Connecticut (USA) on both the Board of Selectmen and the Democratic Town Committee.

Mrs. Delgado is a business and operations strategist with nearly two decades of experience helping entrepreneurs and corporations grow and scale their impact. Her savvy in developing results-driven business strategies around process, organizational design, and revenue creation has made her a sought-after professional in the areas of retail, fashion, education management, and education publishing. Hailed as a Rainmaker and nicknamed “The Wizard” for creating operational systems that bank millions, Mrs. Delgado has worked with and for some of the biggest names in business, included but not limited to Starbucks, The HomeDepot, Success Academies, and Amplify Education. She has led overhauls of business operations, coached executive leadership through global product launches and mergers, and developed the blueprint on niching down to get big results.

 

In March 2020, as a passion project, Mrs. Delgado started helping solopreneurs optimize their time and business operations, working with aspiring entrepreneurs across a multitude of specialties from the food industry to skin care to real estate. With the goal of reaching more businesses and having a greater impact, she launched her own consulting and business educational company in April 2021, J. Delgado & Co. Since then, she has been helping creators turn their digital product ideas from daydreams to full-fledged, profitable businesses by simplifying the secrets of big business and making those secrets accessible.

 

Mrs. Delgado lives in Upstate New York (USA) with her husband, Maxim, and their three children, Logan, Chase, and Aspen (ages 1 to 14).

Mr. Ashuma is currently working as the Global Senior Finance Manager at One Acre Fund. He is responsible for and oversees all accounting, financial reporting, tax, and regulatory compliance aspects of the organization. With over a decade of progressive experience in the field of accounting and finance, he has held other finance leadership roles at Kickstart International Inc., International Livestock Research Institute, and Safaricom Limited.

 

Mr. Ashuma holds a Masters of Science in Project Management, as well as a Bachelors of Commerce (Accounting Option) from the University of Nairobi. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Business Administration, with a specialty in Finance.

Mrs. Karengera is a self-driven leader based in Kigali, Rwanda, with expertise in Human Resources (HR) and Business Administration. She excels in creating welcoming and supportive work environments that foster employee growth and satisfaction, demonstrating a talent for solving recruitment, engagement, remuneration challenges. Mrs. Karengera’s unique strength lies in delivering operational HR solutions that benefit all stakeholders. Her career highlights include her current role as the Regional Head of Human Resources at ITM Africa Ltd., where she collaborates with management to develop personnel policies, manages recruitment, and oversees HR services for various clients.

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Mrs. Karengera grew up in Europe where she studied and specialized in Psychology. She is dedicated to transferring the skills and experience she has gained to the younger generation.

Ms. Rossi is a versatile People and Talent leader and builder who believes that when we find the fun within our work and education, we achieve and learn at our best. Her professional passion lies at the intersection of organizational expansion, technology innovation, and the cultivation of internal culture to drive excellence. 

 

Ms. Rossi is currently the Senior Director of People at Starface World, a brand that turns everyday skin imperfections into moments of self-expression. Prior to Starface, she had spearheaded internal People and Talent teams for dynamic, high-growth tech companies. She has also lent her expertise to Executive Search and Consulting, serving both Series A startups and Fortune 1000 firms across diverse industries, such as SaaS technology, fintech, freight, supply chain, manufacturing, beauty & wellness, and staffing. 

 

In her spare time, Ms. Rossi volunteers with Experience Camps, a free summer camp for grieving children across the United States. She is thrilled to be merging her passion for building organizations with supporting children’s wellbeing and development as a LEF Board Director.

Dr. Ekwelum is proud to be LEF's Founder and to be serving as Legacy of Excellence Academy's chief transformational leader on the ground, as the school's Executive Director. With over a decade of experience in the field of education, he brings to this position a profound respect for the process of successfully guiding our youth and the process of supporting continuous adult learning - two areas that require a great deal of humility and compassion. Specializing in culturally responsive teaching and learning, school start up, school turnaround, and teacher retention, Dr. Ekwelum is the author of Education's Silent Exodus: A Critical Exploration of Race & the Shortage of Black Men in the Teaching Profession. ​

 

Dr. Ekwelum is kept grounded by his faith, his Nigerian heritage, and his family, specifically his incredible wife and their three, precocious children.