Pronouns
she/any pronoun
What do you do as a consultant/coach?
Senior HR Consultant focused on people-centered, values-aligned, and movement-oriented HR. Currently, I focus primarily on equitable compensation, radical policy making, and HR coaching/advising
What is your approach?
In our experience, we’ve seen that people have passion for their mission and expertise in their field, but they are too often stretched beyond their capacity to manage staff, organizations, and collaborations.
Leaders burn out
Staff and volunteers are underused and exploited
Organizations forfeit resources, like time and money
Organizational health erodes
Communities become fractured
Social movements lose momentum
Our passion is to help people transform, organizations thrive, and collaborations grow stronger.
Our mission is to support our communities through working with change-makers and social justice leaders like you who engage in transformational, culture-shifting work—in our social movements, in our organizations, and within ourselves.
Our strategy is to offer innovative and boundary pushing HR consultation, leadership and career coaching for individuals and teams, and thought leadership.
We envision equitable, nurturing, and enduring communities empowered and embraced by healthy, effective, and sustainable nonprofits, community organizations, and leaders.
Our guiding values are authenticity, courage, continuous learning, care, and equity.
Our goal is to sow the seeds of resiliency and possibility into your leadership, organization, or member-driven work so people stay in community with each other and nurture a culture of collaborative movement-building that fuels long-term, sustained social change.
Our clients are small- to mid-size social justice organizations around the United States.
How has your experience/background contributed to your work?
As a young adult, I became more actively involved in volunteering with social justice organizations, serving and advocating for women, people with disabilities, and queer people of color. What most influenced my perspective was growing up in an immigrant family, having a mother who spoke very little English and became deaf when I was seven, and having a father who was a public servant all his life. What inspires me the most is making a positive difference in real people’s lives and driving social change and transformation – in me, in you, in the people we work with, and the communities we serve.
For over 25 years, I’ve been an advocate of access and disability justice, and an LGBTQ organizer and advocate at the local, state, and national levels. That deeply informs my work.
I’m a nonprofit strategist and social entrepreneur with more than 20 years of management, technology, and organizational development (OD) experience spanning the public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. I am driven by a vision of strong organizations working collaboratively toward a common social purpose. I’m an organizational development geek at heart, and I see my work as learning with you and providing you adaptive capacity and an external perspective.
Whether you are a community-based organization, a national coalition, or international NGO, as a thought partner and resource expert, I aim to increase your impact by improving your people and organizational systems. My organizational consulting focuses on people/human resources and technology management, and how these systems integrate with the rest of your key organizational activities – programs, communications, financials, and resource development. This includes helping to build your capacity in strategic planning and thinking, sustainable infrastructure growth, and data-driven evaluations and assessments.
I work with strategic leaders who value building and sustaining the collective capacity the people doing the work and who are committed to longer-term engagements that build a strong practice of deep reflection and learning, innovation, connection, and action into their organizational culture and DNA.
I’d love to have a conversation with you to see how I can serve you!
Relevant certifications or trainings
- SCP/SHRM, Sr. HR Professional
- Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant