After spending two decades struggling while working and volunteering in environmental and LGBTIQA2+ nonprofits, four decades living in a white-, cis-, het-, abled-supremacist society as a queer, trans nonbinary, triracial, and neurodivergent person, and 25 years’ worth of DEI training aimed at helping me navigate this world in my body, I now feel ready to help others do the work of inclusion, equity, accessibility, and justice.
The first thing you need to know about me before contracting me for this work is that I won’t coddle. Traditional nonprofit work and workplace hierarchies uphold white supremacy, the patriarchy, heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and classism by centering those who traditionally hold power and privilege while disenfranchising those who don’t. It will take a brave space, complete with psychological safety for all employees, and buy-in from all levels of an organization to make this work happen. If you don’t have that, I’m not the one you want to contract. I won’t allow my work to be a rubber stamp for your organization.
If you are ready, I’m so excited to work with you!
Experience and Credentials
I was 14 years old when I attended my first DEI training through my high school. By 17, I was teaching the training. All throughout my life, I’ave attended DEI trainings to help navigate the world around me and advocate for my communities.
In 2021, I decided to get a certificate to prove that I knew what I was talking about. I achieved my Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business in May 2021.
Before then and since then, I have been working to improve the conditions at my full-time job and led the charge to transition our organization from a typical, hierarchical structure to a more equitable shared-leadership structure.
I am currently working with Next 100 Colorado — a coalition committed to the establishment of a just and inclusive parks and public lands system — and am finishing up my Justice Outside Rising Leaders Fellowship — designed to increase the racial equity, justice, and cultural relevancy of our work by connecting communities to the outdoors.
Services and Rates
Composing Internal Documents
A huge part of DEI work is having an organization set up to operationalize justice, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. This is the first step, but I can’t make your organization walk the talk. What I can provide is editing services, resources, or policies on the following topics:
- Group Guidelines that prioritize equity and inclusion
- A JEDI proposal for your organization to begin and prioritize doing its work with a JEDI lens
- An equitable hiring guide
- A deep dive into inequities in your current employee handbook
Rates:
My equity work, like everything else I do, is delivered on a sliding scale basis, which I determine according to gross income and identity. Why do I do this? Because a lot of wealth has to do with access, privilege, and power. Most generational wealth was accumulated through either extractive or exploitive practices which have disproportionately impacted marginalized people (myself included). My pay rates ensure that others who also similarly impacted receive a discount and those that are not impacted but benefit from these systems (or may have done the impacting) pay their fair share or subsidize those they may have harmed.
Where it says “standard,” that means that I will send you a model to work from. It won’t be catered to your organization.
If dollars are tight, I am all about the barter system, so if you believe you have goods or services I may need, please let me know what you have to offer. I occasionally offer pro bono services to organizations that are Black-led, Indigenous-led, gender-variant-led, or disabled-led, depending on my availability. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Gross Income | Identity of the C-Suite (at least 50%) | Custom or Standard | Rate |
| Below $100,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | Standard | $100 |
| Custom | $40/hr | ||
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | Standard | $200 | |
| Custom | $60/hr | ||
| $100,001-250,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | Standard | $250 |
| Custom | $100/hr | ||
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | Standard | $500 | |
| Custom | $150/hr | ||
| $250,001+ | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | Standard | $500 |
| Custom | $200/hr | ||
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | Standard | $1,000 | |
| Custom | $300/hr |
Training
I can offer the following trainings to help your staff, board, or both understand how they can better interact with each other and with the people you serve:
- Power and Privilege and How to Leverage It In Support of Equity
- Nonviolent Communication and Emotionally Regulating for Difficult Conversations
Rates:
My training, like everything else I do, is delivered on a sliding scale basis, which I determine according to gross income and identity. Why do I do this? Because a lot of wealth has to do with access, privilege, and power. Most generational wealth was accumulated through either extractive or exploitive practices which have disproportionately impacted marginalized people (myself included). My pay rates ensure that others who also similarly impacted receive a discount and those that are not impacted but benefit from these systems (or may have done the impacting) pay their fair share or subsidize those they may have harmed.
If dollars are tight, I am all about the barter system, so if you believe you have goods or services I may need, please let me know what you have to offer. I occasionally offer pro bono services to organizations that are Black-led, Indigenous-led, gender-variant-led, or disabled-led, depending on my availability. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Gross Income | Identity of the C-Suite (at least 50%) | Rate |
| Below $100,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $25/person |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $50/person | |
| $100,001-250,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $62.50/person |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $125/person | |
| $250,001-500,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $125/person |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $250/person | |
| $500,001+ | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $250/person |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $500/person |
Consulting
Need to pick my brain? We can talk about something in my wheelhouse.
Rates:
My consulting, like everything else I do, is delivered on a sliding scale basis, which I determine according to gross income and identity. Why do I do this? Because a lot of wealth has to do with access, privilege, and power. Most generational wealth was accumulated through either extractive or exploitive practices which have disproportionately impacted marginalized people (myself included). My pay rates ensure that others who also similarly impacted receive a discount and those that are not impacted but benefit from these systems (or may have done the impacting) pay their fair share or subsidize those they may have harmed.
If dollars are tight, I am all about the barter system, so if you believe you have goods or services I may need, please let me know what you have to offer. I occasionally offer pro bono services to organizations that are Black-led, Indigenous-led, gender-variant-led, or disabled-led, depending on my availability. If you can’t afford to pay, please ask if I have capacity.
Suggested rate chart:
| Gross Income | Identity of the C-Suite (at least 50%) | Rate |
| Below $100,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $40/hr |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $60/hr | |
| $100,001-250,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $100/hr |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $150/hr | |
| $250,001-500,000 | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $200/hr |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $300/hr | |
| $500,001+ | Black-, Indigenous-, gender variant-, or disabled-led | $400/hr |
| White-, cis-, and abled-led | $600/hr |
Freebies and Samples
- A sampling of my outdoor equity work (from 2021-2022), including a short film CommuniTy Science: One Trans Person’s Trip to Loveland Pass to Study Pikas,” and two panels.
- JEDI Journey webpage (Composed in 2020 for an event canceled due to COVID. Meant to be a very general introduction to JEDI work.)
- How to Set Up Your Organization to be Inclusive, Focus on Equity First, and Value LGBTIQA2+ Employees and Supporters (Composed in 2020 for an event canceled due to COVID. Meant to illustrate some of the considerations needed to include LGBTIQA2+ people in a meaningful way.)
- Video presentation of How to Set Up your Organization to be Inclusive, Focus on Equity First, and Value LGBTIQA2+ Employees (Recorded in 2020 for an event canceled due to COVID.)
Reach Out To Contract
If you are interested in contracting with me, please email me and let me know what I should call you, where I can reply to you, what you need, and which hourly rate pertains to you. Initial conversations will never incur a charge.