For over 40 years, Frankie has explored how reliable and trusted relationships can provide a helpful web of both support and accountability, for individuals and for communities, in an increasingly fast-paced and unpredictable world. In 2011, Frankie co-founded Trusted Space Partners, working with activists and organizations across the country. Prior to this, she was the founder and executive director of Impact Silver Spring, sparking a new network of over 1,000 people of all different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds working for social change in Silver Spring, Maryland. Frankie’s interest in how to cultivate networks of impactful relationships has been a common thread through a career of over 30 years in public interest law, affordable housing, community development and public and nonprofit management. She currently lives in Saxapahaw, North Carolina.