A custom designed process to support your organization in assessment, education, action planning, and ongoing consultation, in developing policies and practices that offer appropriate support, and, (where applicable) legal compliance, for gender diversity in your college/university, school, nonprofit, or workplace. Available online and in person, depending on current covid restrictions.

Sample Package:

A typical process includes the following components:

1. Assessment: (questionnaire and 2-4 dialogue sessions) Key leaders and stakeholders complete an organizational assessment questionnaire to audit workplace commitments, policies, practices, and lived experiences relating to gender diversity in your context. After collating questionnaires results, I meet with your key leaders and stakeholders for one or more dialogue sessions to discuss findings and create a fuller picture of organizational strengths and areas for development. Using the findings from the assessment and dialogue sessions, I create an assessment report to share with organizational leadership and stakeholders.
2. Education: (1-3 workshops) based on the assessment findings, I develop and offer one or more workshops designed to support your organizational leaders and stakeholders in developing foundational vocabulary and concepts, exploration of intersectional approaches to gender diversity, discussion of practical scenarios, and identified steps for further action.
3. Action Planning:  (1-2 planning sessions) I facilitate a collaborative action planning process where your key leaders and stakeholders identify specific, measurable action steps to continue to increase organizational capacity for supporting gender diversity in your community. I collate this input in a summative Action Plan report, and include my own recommendations to support your work going forward.
4. Policy Review: (consultant time to be determined) Based on the work we’ve done together, I review, analyze, and offer feedback on your current organizational policies relating to gender diversity, in terms of their alignment with your mission and values. Policy review can also include discussion of relevant state and federal laws, (for example, Federal Title IX, and NY State’s GENDA Act).
5. Ongoing consultative support: (monthly or bimonthly consultations) As your organization moves into implementation of their action plans, I offer regularly scheduled “checkups” to see how your implementation is going, to strategize together, and to support your ongoing work.

A custom designed process to support your organization in assessment, education, action planning, and ongoing consultation, in developing policies and practices that offer appropriate support for diversity, equity, and inclusion in your college/university, school, nonprofit, or workplace. Available online and in person, depending on current covid restrictions.

Sample Package:

1. Assessment: (questionnaire and 4-8 dialogue sessions) Key leaders and stakeholders complete an organizational assessment questionnaire to audit workplace commitments, policies, practices, and lived experiences relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion in your context. After collating questionnaires results, I meet with your key leaders and stakeholders for one or more dialogue sessions to discuss findings and create a fuller picture of organizational strengths and areas for development. Using the findings from the assessment and dialogue sessions, I create an assessment report to share with organizational leadership and stakeholders.
2. Education: (2-4 workshops) based on the assessment findings, I develop and offer one or more workshops designed to support your organizational leaders and stakeholders in understanding foundational concepts, exploration of intersectional approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion, discussion of practical scenarios, and identified steps for further action.
3. Action Planning:  (3-4 planning sessions) I facilitate a collaborative action planning process where your key leaders and stakeholders identify specific, measurable action steps to continue to increase organizational capacity for supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. I collate this input in a summative Action Plan report, and include my own recommendations to support your work going forward.
4. Policy Review (consultant time to be determined) Based on the work we’ve done together, I review, analyze, and offer feedback on your current organizational policies to better align with the goals you’ve set out in your Action Plan.
5. Ongoing consultative support: (monthly or bimonthly consultations) As your organization moves into implementation of their action plans, I offer regularly scheduled “checkups” to see how your implementation is going, to strategize together, and to support your ongoing work.

An introductory level experiential workshop to develop shared understandings of key concepts and practices to better support gender diversity in your college/university, school, nonprofit, or workplace. Available online and in person, depending on current covid restrictions.

Sample Package (1.5-2 hour workshop):

In this experiential workshop, I invite participants to do both the inner, reflective work, and the outer skills-based work to better support the transgender, gender non-binary, and gender expansive individuals in their communities. Participants will leave this workshop with a deeper understanding of what they personally bring to this work, foundational vocabulary and concepts, exploration of intersectional approaches to supporting gender diversity, discussion of practical scenarios, and identified steps for further action.

A typical workshop includes the following components:

1. Introductory consultation: a conversation with your key leaders and stakeholders to understand your organization’s current commitments, practices, and needs with regards to gender diversity in your context.
2. Workshop (2-3 hours, virtually or in person.)
3. Follow-up support: I offer a follow-up consultation to see how the workshop has impacted your organization, to strategize together, and to support your ongoing work. Additional followup consultations can be added to this package upon request.

Theatre of the Oppressed is a participatory theatre methodology created by Brazilian artist/activist Augusto Boal, and is particularly effective in tackling challenging social issues. I create bespoke Theatre of the Oppressed programs for colleges, schools, and nonprofits, that run over a series of weeks or a 1-2 day intensive. Programs culminate in a community-wide “Forum Theatre” performance, where actors and audience engage together in theatrical conversations to try out strategies to work towards change. I offer these programs online, in person, and in hybrid formats. 

Sample Package 

A typical Theatre of the Oppressed program includes the following components:

1. Introductory consultation(s): a conversation with key stakeholders about your organization’s diversity/ equity/ inclusion work, to identify a key issue for the focus of the program.
2. Design of bespoke Theatre of the Oppressed program, including support in organization’s participant recruitment.
3. Facilitation of program sessions.
4. Ongoing consultation with key leader(s) as needed as program is delivered.
5. Facilitation of community performances.
6. Post performance survey administration and collation, with post performance debrief with stakeholders, if desired.
7. Follow-up support: I offer a follow-up consultation to see how the program has impacted your organization, to strategize together, and to support your ongoing work. Additional follow-up consultations can be added to this package upon request.