Meet the Team

Patrice is the founder of Southside Community Garden and Executive Director of By Any Means 104. SCG is the inaugural program of BAM 104. Patrice is a social entrepreneur, impact architect and community organizer that focuses on systemic inequities in underserved BIPOC communities.

Changa Higgins is an experienced organizer who has worked on policing reform, civil rights, and racial justice in the Texas and Oklahoma region. For the last 10 years, he has worked in Dallas on policing reform through protest, coalition building, and policy creation. Changa has led The Dallas Community Police Oversight Coalition Since December 2017, where he oversees coalition building and policy creation. The coalition is currently partnering with the Dallas police and city government to overhaul a 30-year-old police review board into an oversight office. He has also founded and led organizing efforts for groups including The Harambee Brotherhood, Unify South Dallas, and Dallas Action Coalition.

Alison is the co-founder of Southside Community Garden with Patrice Jones, connecting through the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and by both speaking out at Fort Worth City Hall against the lack of action and accountability in the murder of Atatiana Jefferson by FWPD.

Broderick Williams is one of the founding partners of Gold Link Beard Co. as well as the Tarrant Country nonprofit Survive and Thrive Education. A native of South Side Fort Worth, Texas. Broderick holds a BA in communications and journalism from Texas Wesleyan University and is currently working towards his MBA.

As a Fort Worth Native, Melondy is passionate about ensuring a happy, healthy, and prosperous future for underrepresented and under-resourced residents of the Fort Worth community. After working with a large national corporation, Melondy pursed her passion for learning into a career in postsecondary education.