Leadership
Meet the Team
Kile Adumene
Director & Co-Founder
Kile Adumene (she/her) is a Black immigrant, community organizer, and mother of four who brings both lived and professional experience to her work. She directs the Manchester Community Action Coalition (MCAC), creating space for most-impacted residents to co-create solutions and build leadership within BIPOC communities.
Kile has partnered with New Hampshire funders to advance equity-centered strategies and has led programs supporting racial and economic justice. She also serves as lead consultant for the state’s Pathways for Healing initiative, connecting marginalized communities to substance use disorder services. Kile is an Adjunct Faculty Instructor at Southern New Hampshire University and an award winning community practitioner.
Jasmine Allen
Communications Specialist
Jasmine Allen is a bilingual community engagement strategist and culinary creative based in New Hampshire. With a background spanning public media, education, nonprofit leadership, and food systems, she specializes in building meaningful connections through culture, conversation, and storytelling. Her work has included developing educational programming, leading community partnerships, producing bilingual media content, and creating spaces where art, food, and civic engagement intersect.
Jasmine is also the creator behind projects like Poems You Eat and Bilingüe y Brutal, blending Puerto Rican identity, poetry, food, and community dialogue into accessible and creative experiences. Whether producing events, developing content, or building grassroots initiatives, her work centers on authenticity, accessibility, and creating spaces where people feel seen, heard, and connected.
MCAC Stewardship / Wisdom Council
We envision the role of this body is to informs how to operationalize the strategic direction of the organization, while also ensuring this strategic direction is rooted in our impacted communities’ solutions.
This will include supporting us in addressing challenges, barriers, and identifying opportunities around:
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Organizational development and staffing
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Addressing the gaps and barriers to advancing community-led solutions so that we can all break through some of the persistent challenges in our work
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Financial management and strategizing around raising unrestricted resources
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Human resources, strategizing around leadership development internally and externally, and support around management within a small grassroots organization
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Providing support around how to maintain a healthy and strong organization given the political environment we are working in in NH and some of the challenges other groups have experienced.