Tracy Lyons, LMFT
Resilience Consultant

Tracy Lyons (she/her) earned her BFA in theater arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MA in counseling psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. Her professional training and background includes school counseling in elementary, middle, and high school, parenting and psychoeducation groups for pregnant and parenting teens, Mindful Schools curriculum training, and Hakomi somatic psychology training. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, Tracy is genuinely curious about the different relationships and systems impacting individual and community well being. Understanding the profound impact of strengths-based work, Tracy leverages trust building with a focus on what’s working rather than what’s wrong as the foundation for lasting and substantial change. She brings this perspective to her work at Acknowledge Alliance, where she is committed to fostering inclusive school communities in her work as a Resilience Consultant, an SEL facilitator, and now as Program Director.

Cheree Clark, MSW, ACSW
Resilience Consultant

Cheree is a proud Bay Area native. Cheree received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice Administration from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, a Historically Black College and University. Throughout her undergraduate career, Cheree exercised exceptional leadership by serving in the Student Government Association in various capacities including Senior Class Vice President. Cheree continues to volunteer on her class's Homecoming Reunion and University Giveback Campaign Committee. In June 2016, Cheree graduated with her MSW from California State University East Bay, where she received the competitive Title IV-E grant. 

Cheree worked in Contra Costa County for five years as a Case Manager in the Differential Response Program with West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau. After graduating with her MSW, Cheree worked as an Emergency Response Social Worker with San Mateo County Children and Family Services for seven years, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of many children and families during her time there. Cheree is passionate about being an advocate for marginalized families and communities impacted disproportionally by systems of oppression. In addition to her work experience, Cheree also finds time to give back through volunteering her time or providing financial support to college bound youth. She is a member of the Northern California Historically Black Colleges and Universities Coalition and the Clark Atlanta University Alumni group, and has participated many times in the annual Black College Expo as well as various college fairs and education workshops throughout the Bay Area. Cheree strongly believes that there is healing in loving and uplifting self and others. This belief has been a guiding force in her personal and professional journey. A few fun facts: Cheree's favorite color is purple and she loves art!

Poonam Raj Singh, Ed.M, PCC
Resilience Consultant, Program Manager

Poonam Raj Singh (she/her) Ed.M, PCC is a coach, facilitator, theatre artist, yoga teacher, mother and doula. Poonam’s deepest intention is to hold a deep listening space for communities and individuals to tap into their own inherent nobility, creativity, and power, especially those on the margins.  

Poonam focuses on collective healing through love. Through her training in Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre, Poonam uses play, story and movement in groups to process conflict and intergenerational trauma in order to work toward group healing and repair. Poonam is also trained in restorative justice (level 1,2, and 3 restorative justice certified), and draws from ancient indigenous ceremonial practices and her training by Oakland Unified School District and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth as a way to center conflict, meditation and healing in groups. 

Poonam is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Facilitator, certified by the International Coach Federation and trained by the Coaches Training Institute. She originally learned the practice of Deep Listening through Thich Knath Hanh’s Plum Village community. She has achieved the highest designation of Master-Level Life Coach through the International Coach Federation.  

Poonam draws from her indigenous lineage of yoga and mindfulness, certified from the Yoga Alliance as a 500-hour yoga instructor and trained by Art of Living Foundation, to teach yoga and mindfulness to both children and adults as a way of being and moving through life. She has been practicing her entire life. 

Poonam has a strong grounding in community and direct service, with early-career roles as a community organizer, teacher on emergency credential, afterschool youth development worker, leadership coach and diversity, equity, and inclusion expert in the nonprofit sector. She founded a nonviolence & social justice leadership training program for youth called Soulforce Leadership that she ran for 8 years. She has a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and completed her undergraduate studies in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, with a focus on racial policy and immigrant identity politics. Poonam lives with her three children and her husband in Mountain View, California - the ancestral and unceded land of the Muwekma and Ramyatush speaking Ohlone people. Poonam is a first gen kid from LA who is indebted to her parent's sacrifice and love!