The Who
Nicole Hudson and Adelaide Lancaster first had the opportunity to work together as Executive Director and Board Member for Forward Through Ferguson in 2016. Since then they have leveraged their shared affinity for dot connecting, pattern finding, puzzle solving, story weaving, and - most of all - grappling to help individuals and groups move themselves from what is to what could be. They delight in the growing community of colleagues eager to question, nuance, try, envision, practice, try again, and practice some more in order to bring new ways of being into existence.
Nicole Hudson
Co-creator / ST LOUIS, MO
Nicole Hudson uses communications, storytelling and strategy to drive toward systems-level change and has worked on projects in industries ranging from Broadway to government. Nicole’s early career was focused mostly on large-scale digitally driven communications initiatives for international brands, while her recent focus has been policy and system interventions around issues of inequity at the organization, municipal, and/or population level. Nicole served as the communications director for the Ferguson Commission, which led to her leading the non profit the Commission created and tasked with supporting the region’s implementation of the report. After a year as the Deputy Mayor of Racial Equity and Priority Initiatives for the City of St. Louis, Nicole joined the administration at Washington University in St. Louis. As half of HudsonMann, Nicole is a co-producer of the National Tour of The Wiz, and a producer of the new musical Regency Girls.
Adelaide Lancaster
Co-creator / YPSILANTI, MI
Adelaide Lancaster is a social entrepreneur and community builder. She excels at finding patterns, identifying possibilities, operationalizing action, and mobilizing people. In 2015, while living in St. Louis, Adelaide co-founded We Stories, a non-profit organization that engaged 1400 families to shift their parenting practices and civic engagement in service of fairer systems and more empathic children. Prior to that, in 2007, she co-founded In Good Company Workplaces, a first of its kind community and co-working space for women entrepreneurs in Manhattan. Adelaide particpates in many civic organizations and initiatives, and was honored to serve for 6 years on the Board of Directors for Forward Through Ferguson - the organizational outgrowth of the Ferguson Commission report. You can find her current projects, available consulting services, and some writing
@ The Slipstream. She currently lives in Ypsilanti, MI where she is an active participant in the AAPS school system, a member of the board of PTO Thrift, and is a state-appointed commissioner for the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission.
