It was in grade school that Joe-Joe remembers first speaking out against racism. Growing up in a mixed-race, multicultural, and interreligious family, he naturally felt protective of his younger brothers, Kacey and B-J.  This was especially true, and often times required far more urgency, for Kacey, who as an African American was forced to deal with anti-Black racism daily. Since then, his anti-racism efforts have led him to speak to international audiences at U.S. schools and universities, as well as in Moscow, Kiev, and all over Russia, and in England, at the University of Cambridge. He refined his message of what is now referred to as inclusive excellence in front of a packed hall of U.S. military personnel, and on his own college campus. Today, his professional goals mirror his personal actions since childhood, promoting active, intersectional, anti-racism and inclusive excellence in education, leadership, and in how we live our daily lives.