Sydney is Co-Director of the Our Local History Project where she works alongside a team to support and empower students, teachers, and communities with the tools to engage with and own their local history of civil rights through inquiry, equity, and civic action to life. Previously, she worked in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles in different spaces leading education and strategy efforts, along with serving as a workshop facilitator and adjunct professor with corporate and nonprofit partners and in higher education. Sydney serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley and is the founder of the Rochester JEDI Collective. She holds a Masters degree in Human Resource Development from Nazareth University and Cornell’s DEI certificate; is an alum of the 2023 Leadership Rochester cohort, a certified antiracism facilitator through 540WMain, Inc.; and is a SafeZone certified trainer through the SafeZone Initiative.