Niyonu Spann - Niyonu D. Spann is a member of Chester Monthly Meeting in Chester, PA. She joined the staff of Friends Council on Education and later served for eight years at Oakwood Friends Boarding School in Poughkeepsie, NY. After completing graduate studies in Organization Development, Niyonu founded TrV Consulting, which specializes in whole-systems transformation.

From 2003 to 2007, Niyonu served as Dean of Pendle Hill, and now manages 4 Circles Beyond, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering peaceful living through the arts and developing youth leadership. In 2010, Beyond Diversity 101 offered its thirteenth workshop, and Tribe 1 celebrated its fifteenth year.