Coltrane Stansbury

Meet Coltrane Stansbury

Coltrane is a community builder with over 20 years of experience creating initiatives that promote workforce inclusion, community collaboration, and social responsibility. Making impactful change is part of Coltrane’s DNA. He is an experienced leader with an extensive background in inclusive leadership, employee engagement, and community partnerships. He comes most recently from Macmillan Learning, Becton Dickinson & Co, PSEG, and Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for building DEI programs from the ground up.

Prior to his corporate DEI work, Coltrane worked on equal employment opportunity and workforce development issues- helping to empower families, residents, and businesses in some of the most distressed communities nationally. That work has included serving as a Senior Policy Advisor to then Mayor Cory Booker (now U.S. Senator) in the City of Newark, NJ and as a Presidential Management Fellow in the federal service.

Coltrane holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Rutgers University's Bloustein School, where he was an Eagleton Fellow. He also holds a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Certificate from AIHR, an Executive Leadership Certificate from Cornell University, and a Certificate in Public Performance Management from Rutgers University.

Coltrane is very active in his community, serving on the boards of the Civic League of Greater New Brunswick, the Boy Scouts of America- Washington Crossing Council, the Pennington School Alumni Association, and Elite Genius Academy Charter School.