Executive Director
She, Her, Hers
Tiffany Flunory-DeBellott is a Co-Executive Director originally from Brooklyn, NY who moved to Asheville NC in 1997. Tiffany has two daughters, Sapphire and Pearl, who are Asheville High School alumni committed to civic engagement and service to the community.
For more than 20 years, Tiffany has shown a passion for education advocacy, social justice, and community organizing. With a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Ms. DeBellott brings a wealth of knowledge and skills in organizational leadership, healing circle facilitation, policy and procedure improvements, program leadership and design, partnership development, and community engagement.
Tiffany has focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion work, reparations, resource redistribution, facilitating racial equity circles, and igniting grassroots movements. She is an active board member of the YMI Cultural Center, LEAF Global, Cothinkk, and Thrive Avl. In addition to that, Tiffany has been dedicated to civic engagement, currently holding a role on the Asheville/Buncombe Community Reparations Commission and the African American Heritage Commission of Asheville.
“It is my goal to ensure a better future for our children and families, through holding accountable and challenging systems of oppression, racism, and the false narrative of white supremacy”, she says.
In her spare time, Ms. DeBellott enjoys the outdoors and is committed to getting people of color out in nature to hike, camp, and enjoy healthy spaces to decompress.