Mission
To increase the pipeline of African/Black American youth entering careers in healthcare through key activities to ensure career exposure and to propel youth focused mentoring programs towards success.
Mentoring Resources
MtMi intends to benefit middle and high-school age youth, but appreciates the demand of undergraduate college students. Through its industry relevant coaches corner, MtMi has assembled a go-to resource for youth of all ages and for their counselors/guardians to identify realistic career pathways. Efforts are underway for healthcare showcase(s) and for healthcare mentoring program curriculum.
Data development, Research and Analysis
Implementation of best practice data modeling, extraction or blending approaches to ensure achievement of preferred data insights for youth mentoring programs.
Mentoring Program Management Solutions
Delivery of expert capacity building, evaluation and result tracking support for mentoring programs focused on needs of middle and high school age youth.
Vision
To establish a mutually beneficial workforce development platform for youth from communities often “left out” opportunity scope and for high-opportunity sectors of healthcare ecosystem.
Leadership
Karif “KC” CARROLL
Founder, Board Chair
Why MtMi?
More often than not, Afro/Black Americans are absent from key spaces in healthcare. Worst, in 2014 I didcovered that the number of Black American males applying to medical school declined (see AAMC report). I realized that I needed to do something to change the trend and to ensure health disparities do not worsen.
BIO
Karif Carroll is a business information technologist specializing in SaaS solutions for small and mid-sized companies. His consulting engagements have also benefited global corporations. His entry into technology began after graduating from West Virginia Wesleyan College (WVWC) as a student-athlete and moving to Washington D.C.-Maryland-Virginia metro area (DMV) in 1997, to start his career at JDA Software.
In 2001, he married his wife, Kelley Carroll MD, and soon after, the newlyweds moved to Houston, Karif’s home city. He secured various business development roles in management consulting and business process outsourcing – earning President’s Club and Inner-Circle Achievement awards, respectively. He transitioned into entrepreneurship in 2011.
Simultaneously, he accelerated his involvement with youth mentoring. In 2017, he streamlined his business efforts into Inspire BPM, a business process and data management consultancy offering workforce development software for diversity and inclusion requirements.
Currently, Karif resides in Atlanta, GA metro area with his wife and two children. He completed his Master’s in biotechnology at Morehouse School of Medicine in August 2021, and he has expanded his business engagements to include real estate property management.
Meshel Stewart
Board Member
Why MtMi?
Insight and access are what our youth need, and I am happy to help youth who desire opportunity for health-related careers.
BIO
Michelle Stewart is an experienced nurse leader with 15 years of nursing experience. She is skilled both working within multidisciplinary team environments and independently as an entrepreneur. Currently, Michelle is a psychiatric nurse with UT Health Dunn Behavior Sciences Center. Three years prior she launched her mobile fluid IV hydration and wellness business that services the Greater Houston area. Her prior experience also includes implementing SaaS solutions at Innovaccer, a digital health CRM and patient management solutions company.
Michelle holds a Master’s of Science in psychiatric/mental health nursing from Maryville University of St. Louis and a Master’s in Nursing Leadership and Administration from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Michelle’s chief joy is parental responsibilities related to her son’s sports play as a youth travel-team baseball player.
Will Womble
Board Member
Why MtMi?
1.) Will luvs da kids; 2.) The “game” needs me!
BIO
Will Womble is a commercial pharmaceutical executive with broad leadership experience in marketing, sales management and leadership development. Will currently serves as Director, Healthcare Market at Genentech. Past roles includeRegional Marketing Director at Bristol Myers Squibb, along with leadership
positions in sales, marketing and leadership development with several major global
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and most recently US Commercial Sales Lead at a biotech startup.
Will holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of New Orleans and an MBA from Texas A&M University Commerce. He also completed executive education and
leadership training from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Mr. Womble is a speaker/guest lecturer for many professional and student organizations and universities.
Will and his wife, Meshonda own & operate Nannies of The Woodlands (NOW), an
award-winning regional placement firm, and have three children – all three academic scholarship students at LSU. The youngest addition to their family is “Choco” a rescued Cocker Spaniel.
Kelley CARROLL
Strategic Adviser
Why MtMi?
Karif and I do life together, and helping “the least of these” is a vision for our home.
BIO
Dr. Kelley Carroll is Executive Vice President of Ambulatory Care Services/Chief of Ambulatory Medicine
at Atlanta’s Grady Health System. Dr. Carroll joined the health system in 2017, after having served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care at Harris Health System in Houston, Texas.
At Grady, Dr. Carroll directly oversees all ambulatory, pharmacy, clinical ancillary services, and skilled nursing facility operations, as well as Grady employed physicians, advanced practice professionals, nurses, and clinicians. In addition, she works with the medical school partners, key health system divisions and executive leaders to ensure timely, efficient, high quality, patient centered care. She is
passionate about improving the health of the Atlanta community.
A 2002 honors graduate of George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Carroll completed her residency in family medicine at the University of Texas McGovern Medical School in Houston. From there, she then joined the Family and Community Medicine faculty as an assistant professor of family medicine. In 2013, she attend the Harvard School of Public Health for healthcare leadership training.
She and her husband, Karif Carroll reside with their two children in the Atlanta metro area.