Work Experience

I designed and facilitated the in-person grantee convening for the Arizona Racial Justice Initiative. This convening brought together Black and Native leaders from grantee partner organizations across the state. We specifically created a convening space that focused on radical joy, deepening relationships between Black and Native leaders, and visioning for future work together.

In partnership with the Liberty Hill Foundation, I developed curriculum and co-facilitated both virtual and in-person sessions for the inaugural leadership cohort. Our content and learning focused on healing-centered leadership, developing a meaningful leadership vision, understanding power dynamics, and rooting in liberatory power practices. This fellowship supports leaders from across California who are committed to environmental justice.

I partnered with Tamika L. Butler and the Energy Foundation to design, build, and implement a participatory grantmaking process grounded in equity and transparency. I co-designed and co-facilitated the MMNT Learning Community (LC) space to bring together 13 grantee and funder organizations focused on transportation, mobility, and climate justice. The LC met monthly for 11 months and worked to build trust and meaningful relationships between those working at community-based organizations and those in philanthropy.

In partnership with Primestor Development and Rios (architecture), I designed and facilitated monthly Core Coalition [virtual] meetings composed of 15+ leaders from the Watts community in Los Angeles. The space we created allowed community leaders to feel comfortable sharing their input and vision for a new community center being built in their neighborhood. As the lead facilitator, it was my role to navigate complex emotions, viewpoints, and processes to ensure the community voice was heard and centered by the developers and architects involved in the project.

Designed and facilitated the national Water Equity and Climate Resilience Convening. This convening brought together 40+ national leaders and we focused on relationship building, deepening their trust as a coalition, and connecting with joy in their work.

Working with the Energy Foundation, Summit Foundation, and Tamika L. Butler Consulting, we traveled to Amsterdam and London to learn about transportation, mode-shift, and electrification. I supported the group of funders and equity advocates through facilitated discussions to process their learnings and create a vision to implement new possibilities in their work.

Two 2-Hour Live Training Sessions

I designed two trainings for the Wilderness Society Community-led Conservation team. The trainings focused on how to design and facilitate meetings grounded in practices of engagement, inclusion, and joy.