Shirmel Hayden is currently the Associate Director for the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, California. With over 20 years experience in the social service sector, she is responsible for program management, implementation, sustainability, and the Grant Writing Department. In addition, she facilitates part-time online classes at the University of Phoenix in Program Planning and Grant Writing. She received her Masters Degree in Public Administration in 2006 from the University of Baltimore. As a proud graduate of Clark Atlanta University, she received a Bachelors of Art Degree in History in 1998. Currently, she is working to complete her dissertation in Public Administration/Public Policy with a specialization in Nonprofit Leadership and Management in 2015. Recently, she became a published author under the Fordham University Press for her contribution to Sabato Rodio’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, Development for her article titled, “Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers: Sociopolitical Realities, Economic Underdevelopment, and Renaissance: Yesterday and Today”. Miss Hayden’s current interest include: Program planning, program implementation, budgets, nonprofit leadership and development, accountability, sustainability, social impact, organizational process and procedure, organizational policies, and management, and human rights. She became a member of the American Society for Public Administrators in 2014.