Staff
Tiffany Cogell, Interim Executive Director
Tiffany is a longtime resident of the Boston area. She is an equity-practice consultant at Design4Equity, serves as the Benefit Director on The Green Engineer’s Board of Directors, a League Cycling Instructor (LCI) with the League of American Bicyclists. She is a mother of four (and too many plants),a brand new Grandma, and passionate about reflecting inclusion, economic equity, and collective empowerment through design, art, housing, and public spaces.
Tiffany has been with the BCU in one way or another since 2014. She served on the BCU board since 2021, and been a trusted advisor to past Executive Directors. Tiffany is also a founding organizer of Ride for Black Lives Boston. She has helped lead monthly rides that highlighted the need for protection, joy, and justice for Black lives.
Mandy Wilkens, Events and Communications Manager
Mandy (they/them) started at the BCU coming from years of organizing in dozens of grassroots community campaigns across the Boston area. From their home neighborhood of Allston to Roxbury, they’ve helped organize struggles around a huge variety of issues, from reproductive justice to police brutality. In 2019, Mandy lead the organizing effort to plan and facilitate the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance event, which highlights the lives of those lost in the intersection of transphobia and racism across the world. Mandy has also been a frequent volunteer at the Boston Liberation Center in Roxbury since their opening in 2021.
If you haven’t run into Mandy doing outreach, at a rally, or at the BLC, it’s pretty likely you’ve seen them darting around on their bike. In the rare moments when Mandy isn’t organizing they’re either at band practice, working on project bikes or at a local metal or punk show.
