OUR FOUNDERS & BOARD
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Together, Dawn and Nadia have co-founded one of the Southeast’s only organizations offering culturally aligned, physician- and subject matter expert-led whole food, plant-based lifestyle education and wellness equity programming. Power is Giving serves all, but strategically focuses on communities disproportionately impacted by lifestyle-driven chronic illness; long neglected by policy, poor healthy food access, lack of evidence-based lifestyle education and burdened by systemic wellness inequities.
From youth programs like Eat Drink, Disrupt (EDD) Fit & Fuel Tennis to numerous adult-centered EDD programs, this mother-daughter duo activates intergenerational solutions through plat-based nutrition, movement, mentorship, and evidence-based truth. Their model reminds us: when we empower the most impacted, we move everyone toward collective health, equity and liberation.
Dawn Hilton-Williams
Co-Founder and CEO
​​Dubbed The Vegucator, Dawn Hilton-Williams is the co-founding CEO and Executive Director of Power is Giving and founder of Herban Eats. A certified whole food, plant-based nutrition professional (eCornell) and nonprofit management professional (Duke University), she holds a BA in Political Science from Virginia State University, where she led the campus NAACP chapter. Dawn is an award-winning culinarian, experienced grant writer and public speaker, and the author of two physician-endorsed books: Flava My Plate: Your Tasty Vegan Guide to Health Wealth and Flava My Plate: Kids Edition, the only color, cook and care guide of its kind in the country.
Encouraged and influenced supportive cultural icons that included: Dr. Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, and Kwame Ture, Dawn's focus on community equity has remained steadfast. Dawn also writes The Vegucator column for Pride Magazine Charlotte, was recognized by Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD Foundation and the NAACP for her wellness leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to share culturally aligned, evidence-based solutions to prevent, arrest and in some cases reverse lifestyle-driven chronic illness in communities most disproportionately impacted by systemic access and wellness inequities.
Nadia Hilton Adams
Co-Founder & EDD Fit & Fuel Coach Program Lead
Born in Charlotte, Nadia Hilton Adams is the co-founder of Power is Giving and leads the EDD Fit & Fuel Tennis Program. A former NCAA Division I athlete and full scholarship recipient at North Carolina A&T State University, Nadia helped guide the Lady Aggies to consecutive MEAC Conference Championship appearances.
She holds a BA in Psychology and was both a four-time all-conference as well as a four time MVP at Southside High School in Greenville, SC.
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A corporate communications manager and dedicated youth tennis coach, Nadia has instructed for Nike Sports Tennis Camps in Miami and is passionate about mentorship through movement.
Through Power is Giving, she leads culturally aligned, non-traditional sports programming that engages youth in exercise, mentorship and nutrition education, offering meaningful experiences that help address childhood obesity and reduce risk factors linked to future lifestyle-driven chronic illnesses.
COLLETTA BRYCE
Board Of Directors
Chair
​A Human Resources Executive with Cox Automotive Group, Colletta is a former non profit managing director and an experienced board and community leader.
MONTEZ ALFORD
Board Member
Treasurer
With over two decades experience in both the healthcare and financial sectors, Montez Alford is adept at organizational leadership, project management, revenue cycle management, market analysis and strategic planning. ​
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URSULA DOUGLAS, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
Board Member
Port City native, Ursula Douglas is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner with over two decades of nursing experience.
Ursula has worked in a variety of healthcare settings with patients in every stage of life and health.
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Her career goal to improve the health and well-being of those who are disproportionately affected by disease and disability.
MILTON MILLS, MD
Board Member
Clinical Advisor
An Oakland, CA native, with over four decades in his field of expertise, Dr. Milton Mills, MD is a board certified physician practicing in the Washington DC metro area and is plant-based/vegan.
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Widely known for appearances in a number of popular vegan documentaries, i.e., What The Health, A graduate of Stanford medical school and Georgetown, Dr. Mills has practiced a vegan lifestyle for more than three decades and is a distinguished, world renowned speaker/presenter and educator.
SANDRA MCMULLEN
Board Member
Sandra is a native New Yorker and longtime resident of Charlotte. She has served on the Charlotte Ballet
Board of Directors and currently serves on the Charlotte Ballet Advisory Board.
She is a thespian and co founder of the Ebony Group and Company, Charlotte’s first African American theatre company.
She has served as Regional Sales Manager for Black Pages USA, Vice President, McCants Communications Group, Managing Director, INROADS Charlotte, Inc. and Director of Field Operations, Charlotte Area Fund, Inc.
Sandra is plant-based and currently provides consulting services.
HELEN POWELL STODDART, MD
Board Member
Author of "Reverse It: How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases," Dr. Helen is founder of Pain 2 Wellness Healthcare where she empowers patients to arrest and reverse our top lifestyle-driven chronic diseases through the integration of conventional and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Helen is also plant-based/vegan.
