Our Team

Stacey grew up with a legacy of building our community and giving back. Her grandparents, an attorney and a school teacher founded a church, and taught people within their community how to read in the basement of the church after work in the evenings.

She graduated from Cornell University in New York. Most of her work has been in the arena of fostering diversity inclusion and empowerment to women, children and families. In 1999, she joined several families in creating a Sunday School for children to learn their cultural history and build a foundation of self-awareness for cultivating empowerment at an early age. In 2002, she incorporated the program as a non-profit 501(c)(3) entity.

In 2005 she was elected as Council Woman in New Jersey. She served in this capacity for four consecutive years, and built a landscape around women empowerment which led to an appointment as a delegate and an invitation to initiate a Political Women’s organization for the county, and to serve on NJ’s non-partisan State Political Caucus for Women –  ensuring that all parties worked together to promote and secure political positions for women. In 2007 , she traveled to India as part of a mission with the NJ State Chamber of Commerce to build global partnerships with Chambers of other countries. They adopted a school to once again help empower disenfranchised children.

Today, Stacey resides with her husband Hollis and they share a hybrid of seven children. She serves as the Executive Director of Every Woman Works, Inc. (EWW) moving women from dependency to self sufficiency. She also serves her sorority Delta Sigma Theta, her church Zion Missionary Baptist in Marietta and mentors High School students from the Cobb County community of schools.

Nikita is the Compliance Officer at Every Woman Works, Inc. She ensures that our organization meets policy and procedure of the IRS non-profit status. Additionally, Nikita ensures that all curriculum meets the standards of our delivery outcomes and Returns on Invesrment (ROI).

Nikita Ragland has the knowledge, skills and experience to respond to emerging trends shaping the future of global business. She understands how developments in the external environment impact organizations as they are called upon to make human capital decisions that drive the organization’s top and bottom lines, and in the process, “Helping move women from dependency to self-sufficiency”.

Cheryl grew up in a military family.  Her parents were both born and raised in Georgia. She graduated with honors from Ladycliff College in New York where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree.  She later went on to graduate school at the University of Texas, graduating with a M.Ed. Psych. in 1980. 

She has worked in the non-profit field for over 25 years as an Executive Director and currently as the Development Manager for Every Woman Works, Inc.  She has one son, Christopher Giordano who is 25 years old and living in Tampa, FL. 

She and currently resides in Roswell and has been active in the Roswell community as a member of the Roswell Women’s Club since 2014.

Highly analytical, visionary, passionate, and results-driven program manager, a servant leader, with experience in handling key business programs and activities with outstanding results. Patrice worked for Dow Jones & Company, Inc. for 20 years concluding her career there as a Lead Product Testing Analyst.

She is a certified Project Management Professional who is passionate about serving others utilizing the gifts and professional skills that lie within her. Since relocating to Atlanta, she serves as a volunteer with United Way of Greater Atlanta, Everybody Wins! Atlanta, and GEEARS. Partnering with these organizations has allowed her to strive to be a solution to the literacy deficiencies in the state of Georgia, uplift woman and children from a fallen state and address any lack that comes to her attention.

She is employed at Every Woman Work as the Executive Assistant to Stacey Howell, CEO & Executive Director, where she demonstrates a high degree of professionalism, initiative, and independence in supporting the Executive Director in a wide variety of projects, administrative support and program initiatives.

She raised a son as a single parent, Rev. Jonathon D. Counts, MSW, M.DIV, who is married to the former Darlene Butler. He is employed as an Office/School Based Therapist and Internship Task Supervisor at Hope Health Systems, Inc. in Baltimore, and the Pastor of S. G. Spottswood A.M.E. Zion Church in Landover, Maryland.

Jennifer has 20 years in the Customer Service Area where she has always excelled in making people feel welcome. She began volunteering at Every Woman Works, Inc. (EWW) in 2006. She has held the position of Job Coach Supervisor and currently is the bookkeeper and ensures that all financials and reporting is in compliance with IRS regulations.