About Us
Pless and Elizabeth Jones are college sweethearts who first met and fell in love at Virginia State University. Life happened, and they spent a lot of years apart after leaving VSU, Pless used his Engineering degree to work with his family’s construction firm and Elizabeth went from working as a Systems Engineer to a Corrections Educator in state and federal prisons. Pless fought for minority contractors and businesses in Baltimore and supported youth programs in his hometown of Emporia, Virginia, while raising his three children, Sky, Pless, and Ryder. Elizabeth, a licensed and ordained minister, earned her Master of Divinity, and lived out her call to teach in prisons and churches.
Twenty-five years later their time caught up with their eternity and they reentered each other’s lives, making an undeniable impact on each other that revealed their eternal purpose. Their desire to transform communities and lives through greater access to the resources that move opportunities, led them to form the Equality Equation. The same faith, hope, and love which forms Pless and Elizabeth’s union is the same faith, hope, and love which guides them in their work through the Equality Equation. That is to transmute impoverished communities into healthy flourishing neighborhoods.