Referrals & Co-Leads

The Eldest Daughters Collective is a peer support space for self-identified eldest or only daughters of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color families. This intentional space centers the experiences, hopes, dreams, grief, and resilience of the eldest daughters who often hold the weight of their families throughout their lifetime.

*This space is for you if you are 18+ years old, identify as an eldest or only daughter in your family unit, AND you are a Black, Indigenous, or Person of color. We define the eldest daughter as the parentified child. You have had to carry significant emotional, financial, or spiritual labor on behalf of your family, and are seeking a space to be witnessed and held amongst other eldest daughters.

Dr. Consuelo Grier serves as the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Bellevue College, and Founder of Brave Space, LLC. Dr. Grier is an experienced non-profit and higher education leader with nearly 25 years of experience advancing equity and access for historically excluded and marginalized populations. As a mother and life-long learner, her commitment to infusing equity and inclusion in all areas of leadership has spurred her interest and passion for working across the education spectrum from K-12 and postsecondary education. As a researcher, Dr. Grier has subject matter expertise in transformational leadership with a focus on the experiences of Black and brown leaders in higher education. She is currently studying the role of strategic rest for leaders in different cultural contexts, and spent the summer traveling the globe with her 8-year-old daughter. Dr. Grier provides thought leadership, partnership, and executive level coaching on issues of equity, access, and support across the country to educational organizations, nonprofits, businesses, government, and executive leaders.

I created Black Diaspora Shine Network to unite and serve the Black American and African communities I love. My goal is to help heal intergenerational financial wounds and shift the trajectory of Black families for the better. This endeavor is my way of modeling the daily encouragement I give my kids to “shine bright.”

Through Black Diaspora Shine Network, I aim to empower Black entrepreneurs and families, leveraging our rich heritage and collective strengths to foster financial growth, resilience, and healing.

Elena is a Chicana visionary, strategist, culture builder, facilitator, and leadership coach. Elena is the owner and principal of Liberación Consulting LLC. Her work focuses on healing centered consulting, leadership development, and coaching with a focused commitment to work alongside BIPOC leaders and communities. She has been active in the nonprofit sector and philanthropy over the last 17 years through her work in leadership development, organizational capacity building, institutional organizing, and ministry on both local and national levels. Elena believes strongly that generative relationships, humanizing conditions, healing, and imagination are influential in advancing liberated realities.

Contact Elena for: restorative group and organizational facilitation, leadership and affinity space coaching for BIPOC leaders, strategy integration of racial equity and justice principles, organizational culture strategy development, and building healing centered collective spaces.

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Amadeo Cruz Guiao is a transformational consultant who works with organizations to align them with their deepest values.

A visionary healer, Amadeo also helps passionate, soul-based changemakers heal all the things they are not—their wounds, traumas, and fears—in order to be the magnificent beings that they were created to be.

Amadeo is currently available for group facilitation, organizational development, and one-on-one healing work.

I help social impact leaders, teams, and communities deeply connect to themselves and others, unlock their power, and pursue their biggest dreams together. Join me in customized, intentional, and integrated spaces for self-discovery and community-centered leadership development.

Together we will unlock your full power to lead the life and career of your dreams.

Gilmore Khandhar, LLC is a solidarity economies law firm focused on using legal, policy, and advocacy tools to advance economic justice, racial equity, and social transformation. We support our clients from developing their ideas and creating organizations/businesses that realize their values, to ensuring that their organizations/businesses are values-aligned, healthy, and resilient.

LiZhen (they/them & she/her) is an astrologer, facilitator, and food-grower based in Taipei and Huchiun (Ohlone territory also known as Oakland). They have been a consulting astrologer since 2014, and in 2020 I started the Astrology for Social Movements project. Her research focuses on the planetary patterns undergirding movements for abolition and collective freedom. LiZhen also teach a program called ON PURPOSE: An Astrological Discovery of What You’re Here For.

Blue Jaguar Healing Arts, founded in 2011 by Syd Yang, is an energy healing practice for collective body liberation that centers BIPOC, queer, trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming folx whose bodies carry past or present day experiences with self- harm, addiction/substance use and/or eating disorders.

Through creative and energetic healing spaces, Blue Jaguar elevates personal stories and lived experiences to transform recovery into a practice of collective liberation, to generate possibility for all bodies to thrive.

Individual, couple, family, and group therapy from an anti-oppression lens.

I use a combination of approaches in my therapeutic work including anti-oppression, feminist, and narrative frameworks. I rely deeply on systems theory and the understanding that individuals are products of and in dialogue with our surroundings, including our families, broader culture, workplaces, nature, and political climates. Along with my therapy degree, I also hold a masters degree in theological studies, and I incorporate conversations about spirutuality and spiritual direction into sessions as clients desire. I

Asif Majid is a theatre maker, educator, researcher, and consultant whose work scripts, stages, and traces local and global nodes of history, power, performance, race, and (de)coloniality, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre, making improvisational music, and attending to the intersection of Islam and performance. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is also Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology; Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Asif has held fellowships at the Arab American National Museum and the San Francisco Arts Commission, and he maintains an active consulting practice on issues of racial justice, power sharing, arts administration, and organizational capacity and structure, all through an applied theatre and social justice lens.

Contact Asif if you are an arts/culture organization looking to move towards racial justice and decolonization. Asif offers applied theatre workshops and customized meeting/focus group facilitation for corporate, government, and nonprofit clients. He also conducts racial equity audits and surveys, undertakes qualitative arts research, facilitates trainings in pedagogy and education, and redesigns internal systems to have a greater focus on equity.

With over a decade of experience in brand marketing, digital & communications strategy, and professional mentorship across commercial and nonprofit sectors, Jay wields the knowledge and confidence to help transform new ideas into bold realities, both on and offline.

Jay has helped build brands digitally from the ground up for companies including NBCUniversal, Elysium Health, and Plume Health. They have consulted and coached for organizations like Demos, Ford Foundation, SARDAA, and countless grassroot organizations to help them adapt to an ever-evolving landscape. Through each experience, she has provided invaluable humanity, incisive insight, expansive collaboration, and deep digital expertise.

At Embodied Healing and Wellness Counseling we understand what it feels like to feel alone, disconnected, and struggling to understand how life got to feel so hard.

With over 15 years of experience working with teens and adults, we have walked alongside many as a guide in their healing journey to a life where happiness, connection, and joy are possible

Creative & Web lead at Economic Policy Institute

Adjunct web design instructor at UMBC

I enjoy designing book layouts, logos & branding, printed materials for events, websites, marketing materials, packaging, and much more.

Jessie was born in Ecuador, but she was raised in Brooklyn, NY from the age of one. She grew up in Flatbush, a vibrant community that would go on to shape her deep commitment to education, healing, and justice. After graduating from Syracuse University, Jessie began her career teaching elementary school in Houston, TX. Since then, Jessie has been coaching and developing educators and leaders to promote the growth and development of their students, teams, and organizations.

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Rio Holaday (she/her) uses visuals to make you feel seen, heard, and grounded in our collective journey towards justice.

She has a public health background and became a visual practitioner in order to make information accessible, gatherings engaging, and the journey more joyful.

Rio is a Culture of Health Leader with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.