Sarad Davenport is a social innovator, content creator, and human-centered designer with a track record of producing positive population-level outcomes. He has a long history of developing and accelerating cross-sector partnerships using asset-based community development practices. Sarad served as the founding director of the Charlottesville Promise Neighborhood, also known as City of Promise, a federal Department of Education planning grant recipient. He spent more than five years working with key stakeholders to build City of Promise into a sustainable and outcomes-driven organization focused on improving life-outcomes for youth and families in Charlottesville, Virginia. Before going into business full-time, Sarad served as the Vice President of Operations at TMI Consulting, Inc., a diversity and inclusion management firm in Richmond, Virginia. He also served as Principal for Organizational Health & Performance at the Communities In Schools National Office (CIS National), where he provided technical and operational support to non-profit leaders throughout the country. Sarad is a certified project manager and has worked at the local, regional, and national levels to improve systems, workflows, and processes for organizations and institutions. Through all of his endeavors, Sarad credits his faith as what has strengthened and sustained him along the way.