Pronouns
she/her
What do you do as a consultant/coach?
Support HR needs of small & medium nonprofits, so their people can do great work.
What is your approach?
Mine is an unapologetically people-centered, proactively compassionate, approach to HR. It’s an approach designed to help humans thrive.
How has your experience/background contributed to your work?
In my early years I was surrounded by people . . . lots of people: family, multiple foreign exchange students, friends, my sibling’s college friends, church members, and community members. Everywhere I went, people were always around.
Those people were almost exclusively white.
One summer in high school, I went to an event only about 15 miles away, where I discovered a whole new world. It was a world of people from another culture and a different lived experience.
It was one of those life-shifting moments. A moment in which my eyes were opened a little wider and everything I thought I knew and understood about myself, my family, my country and the world was suddenly called into question.
At that moment I decided I wanted to learn more about other people outside of my little circle – about lives not exactly like my own. And the more I learned the more my eyes were opened to the inequities that I was perpetuating.
So, I dedicated myself to undoing my old ways of thinking and being in the world, the ways I’d been taught were right and true. I committed myself to becoming a welcome home for all people.
While I started out in a career doing direct service with young people, I soon began exploring other ways of serving people – ALL people. I discovered that my deepest calling was in developing systems and processes that helped people, and simultaneously worked for justice.
As I’ve built my own HR practice, I’ve done so with a passionate commitment to making it one that’s rooted in justice – particularly racial justice. Every protocol and system I set up is developed through a lens that centers equity: for BIPOC women in particular. My deepest longing is to leave a more just world for my BIPOC family members & friends. My core belief is that we cannot be loving without working for justice.
Relevant certifications or trainings
PHR: Professional in Human Resources
Sample clients
Highlander Research & Education Center, New York Abortion Access Fund, Apna Ghar, The Coleman Foundation, Family Equality, Un Nuevo Despertar, Freedom to Thrive, NEXT Distro, United African Organization