Team

Everett L. Glenn is Founder and CEO of BOSS™—Business of Student Success—a Los Angeles-area nonprofit that has built the developmental infrastructure young people need to transform potential into educational attainment, economic mobility, and lifelong leadership.

My story started in sixth grade. Growing up at 84th and Quincy in inner-city Cleveland, I gained access to summer enrichment at Oberlin College, followed by experiences at John Carroll, University School, and Case Western Reserve University. Those environments provided exposure, higher expectations, accountability, and access to possibilities I could not yet see.

After graduating from Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, I handled sophisticated corporate, commercial, and real estate matters at Benesch, Friedlander and Heller, Ehrman, including work involving Levi Strauss, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell, and the Oakland A’s ownership.  When basketball and football stars Clark Kellogg and Willie Gault chose me to represent them, the opportunity launched a pioneering sports career. I represented multiple NBA and NFL first-round draft selections and future Hall of Famers and negotiated groundbreaking agreements—including the NFL’s first lifetime contract.

I was the first Black attorney in the Long Beach City Attorney’s Office, serving for a decade as Deputy City Attorney, and authored the Port of Long Beach Small Business Enterprise Program, which helped generate more than $200 million in opportunities for small businesses. I later served in an Of Counsel role at Alvarado, Smith for years before starting BOSS.

Across law, sports, business, and public service, Everett has recognized potential, navigated institutions, negotiated access, and created opportunity.  Through BOSS, he now does that intentionally for thousands of young people—surrounding them with preparation, expectations, accountability, relationships, exposure, and life-changing opportunities.

Potential is universal. Access and opportunity are not. But when preparation meets access and opportunity, anything is possible.

Kagba Suaray is currently in his 17th year as a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at California State University, Long Beach.

He serves as Graduate Advisor for one of the largest Applied Statistics masters programs in the state. He has also served as the Director of Upward Bound’s Math Science program at CSULB, and is a product of the McNair scholars’ program which helped him earn his PhD in mathematics from UC San Diego at the age of 25, where he was the recipient of the Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship.

As a founding member of The Hesabu Circle, he strives to empower youth to discover the mathematical greatness that resides within them because of their Blackness, not in spite of it.

“Hesabu” is the Kiswahili word for “Mathematics.” The group of Black mathematics faculty and administrative staff at Southern California campuses who created the Circle did so to create connections for mutual support to break down artificial barriers caused by geography, institution, or academic level and build networks of support that encourage and empower individuals of African descent to envision and achieve excellence in mathematics.

Tyler Barnett is an educational professional dedicated to bringing best-in-class instruction to students of all backgrounds. 

Growing up, Tyler’s family always told him that his job was to do his best in school, and that they would do everything they could to help him reach his goals. Enabled by this support, Tyler was able to make academic achievements over the years including receiving multiple full-ride scholarship offers to college, graduating magna cum laude from the University of Richmond, scoring in the 99th percentile on the GMAT, and graduating from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as Harvard Business School with first year academic honors.

Tyler has dedicated his career to supporting students to achieve their academic and professional goals as his family and others supported him. He holds the unwavering belief that ALL students are capable of achieving academic excellence when provided the necessary opportunities and support, regardless of their race, nationality, or economic status.