Staff

Malaika Mitchell, Executive Director

Malaika M. Mitchell joined the Sound Body Sound Mind team as Executive Director in December 2008.

Prior to joining Sound Body Sound Mind, she served as Program Director for the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Malaika provided leadership to a team charged with the start-up and ongoing management of the Afterschool Services Program. Over a three year period, the team invested $45 million dollars in afterschool and summer learning programs operated by schools and community-based organizations. Each year, programs impacted over 19,000 school-age youth across Georgia.

Before joining the Department of Human Resources, Malaika worked as a Small Business Relationship Manager and Investment Officer in Bank of America’s Boston-based Community Banking Group. In that capacity she provided financing to small businesses and refined the group’s growth strategy for the Community Development Financial Institution market.

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Malaika holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) and an MBA degree from Babson College (Wellesley, MA).

Adrianna Johnson, Program Director

Adrianna Johnson serves as Program Director for the Sound Body Sound Mind program.

Prior to joining the Sound Body Sound Mind team, Adrianna worked for the UCLA Alumni Association as a Member Services Representative and as a tutor for the UCLA Academic Advancement Program. In 2001, she created Positive Pathways, an after school program to help middle school students develop social skills, self-confidence and improve academically.

Adrianna graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. degree in Spanish.

Keith Legro, Program Coordinator

Keith Legro joined Sound Body Sound Mind in January of 2009 as Program Coordinator.

Prior to joining the Sound Body Sound Mind team Keith worked as a legal assistant for an Immigration law firm in Los Angeles. He attended UCLA and served as president of the Scattertones (a co-ed collegiate acapella group) and treasurer of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity. He also completed numerous acts of community service as a member of the UCLA Alumni Association and has worked with charitable foundations such as the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association.

Keith graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Political Science.