Meet The Board

CO- CHAIR

Kitonga Alexander, a Milwaukee native, taught elementary, middle and high school students in Milwaukee for 11 years. He coordinated the Welcome Home Project, a program designed to reduce recidivism by working directly with citizens returning to the Milwaukee community from incarceration. He has a bachelor’s degree in Africology, a master’s degree in Business Management and is a History PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Kitonga’s research interests are African American migration, revolts and uprisings within the African Diaspora and African American cultural identity. He is the lead researcher and content creator for the Milwaukee Bronzeville Histories, an organization which documents historical people and places in historical communities. He is a researcher on the Living for the City Project. He created the Walk of Truth, a guided social expedition that participants returning to the community from incarceration take in order to create individual plans of productivity. He was the recipient of the first TMJ4 Positively Milwaukee Award in 2017 for teaching.

Kitonga serves on the Victory Garden Initiative Board and is the board president of City School, a private school in Milwaukee that educates predominantly African American students. He is also a member of the Racial Justice & Equity Advisory Committee for the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. As the founder of the organization UPP (United for Progress and Productivity), Kitonga is committed to establishing strong community relationships, with the aspirations of networking an array of resources for Milwaukee community members as they navigate their collective and individual journeys.