Yvette Carnell
Before founding the ADOS Advocacy Foundation in 2020, Yvette served as staff assistant to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), legislative aide to Congressman Marion Berry (D-AR), and assistant to the Chair of the Women’s Vote Center at the DNC. She also worked as regional field director for America’s Families United, where she supervised, mobilized, and coordinated the GOTV efforts of multiple non-profit organizations in preparation for upcoming elections. After leaving Capitol Hill, Yvette started a political call-in show on YouTube with almost 90k subscribers and co-founded the American Descendants of Slavery movement. Yvette has appeared on CNN and ABC News, in Vox, The Intercept, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, and on the front page of The New York Times. She was also a featured guest at Yale University’s Reparations Speaker Series. Yvette grew up in Decatur, Georgia, and attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in philosophy.