Romy Rahmanian is the principal attorney at the Law Office of Romy S. Rahmanian, a law firm that is dedicated to assisting clients in the areas of estate planning, trust administration, estate litigation, probate, real estate and business law. His work includes advising clients on how to strategically position themselves before litigation becomes necessary.

He is an adjunct professor of law at U.C. Berkeley School of Law, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and Southwestern Law School. Romy received his Juris Doctorate Degree from Southwestern Law School where he served as a Senior Editor for the Southwestern Law Review and as a full-time judicial extern for the Honorable Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the California Bar, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Sacramento County Bar Association. Romy has also worked as a volunteer for the Bet Tzedek, a non-profit, public interest law firm providing free legal services for underprivileged, elderly and disabled residents in Los Angeles County.

Sue ‘s professional career in nursing has allowed her to serve both within the U.S and internationally. Her education includes graduate work at Emory University where she won 1998’s Emory University’s School of Public Health Gangarosa Award in International Health and the School of Nursing’s Graduate Innovative Project award. Sue earned a Master’s degree in nursing doubling as a family nurse practitioner and a psychiatric nurse practitioner; while also earning a Master’s degree in International Public Health.

She has served in different leadership roles during her career and while serving as the national director of psychiatric nurse practitioners for a company, she was awarded the Outstanding Professional Award in 2010. Although Sue is currently partially retired, she works parttime as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in telepsychiatry.

Sue is a Bahá’í and has served the Bahá’í Faith in several different capacities, both on the homefront and as an international pioneer. Her service is always focused on engagement with individuals, faith-based and community organizations in working for the “betterment of the world through pure and goodly deeds” done locally.

For a number of years, Sue has been focused on racial justice and the importance for people of African descent, “the Pupil of the Eye”, to be in the forefront of work to develop spiritually just and loving communities.

Regan Williams (she/her/hers) originates from Arkansas and moved to Nashville Tennessee in 2015. She graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University in 2019 with a BA in Political Science and Cinema & Media Arts and soon after joined Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems as a Program Coordinator. Regan is a member of the Nashville Bahá’í community and finds joy in travels, spending time with friends and family, and enhancing her spiritual capacities. As a black woman having gone through and facilitated a cohort for Copper to Gold, Regan recognizes the importance of what the program has to offer all who are interested. She is honored to serve on the Board of Directors as Treasurer.

Gary Littell lives in Goodfield IL and is a Lead Software engineer with 30 years experience working for State Farm Insurance. He is currently the lead developer on a team that is transitioning omni-channel contact centers for the State Farm Claims department to the Amazon Web Services platform. Gary has expertise in voice and chat bot design and development utilized for contact center automation. He has been awarded multiple patents during his career. Gary excels at seeing the needs of the day as they pertain to individuals, communities, and institutions and designing and leading teams to deliver technical solutions to address these needs. Gary graduated from Southern Illinois University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a Chartered Financial Consultant (Chfc) and Chartered Life Underwriter designation from the American College.

Gary is a Bahá’í and has served the Baha’i Faith in several different capacities. Most recently his service has focused on activities of race amity. These activities include participating in the Rooting out Racism boot camp for the past year and serving as a facilitator for the Copper to Gold program.

Karen Streets-Anderson is the grand-daughter of civil rights activists. The Civil Rights Museum at Indiana University South Bend commemorates the contributions her grandparents made to integrate and legally address racial discrimination in South Bend, Indiana. Being mentored by them, and often included in their social justice and anti-racism activities, profoundly shaped Karen’s identity, values and worldview. Their example inspired her to become involved in a number of racial justice and race amity organizations (the NAACP, the Institute for the Healing of Racism) as well as create educational workshops on racial bias and institutionalized racism, culminating in her advisory role and participation in Copper to Gold since its inception.

After graduating from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Politics (Political Science), Karen launched a career in broadcast television news production. This included electronic graphics, floor directing during newscasts, operating cameras in the studio and out in the field, and commercial voice-overs. She eventually moved on from television to advertising, working as a media buyer for an advertising agency. While there, she closely worked with minority and women-owned businesses in order to devise marketing strategies that would allow them to gain wider recognition and greater reach.

Karen has served on the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’i’s of Nashville, Tennessee, the local governing administrative body of the Nashville Bahá’í community, for 30 years. For many of those years she has either been the Assembly’s Chairperson, Secretary or Recording Secretary.

Together, Karen and her husband of 36 years, Nolan, have raised 2 sons who have turned out to be talented young men in their own right. Now entering a new chapter in life, Karen is writing a coming of age novel that explores the intersectionality of race, culture, colorism, class and gender as its main characters try to truly connect with others and build community in spite of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.