Engaging Lived Experience
Lived experience is expertise. I help organizations build authentic partnerships with community members that elevate lived experience from feedback to leadership. Too often, nonprofits ask people with lived experience to share their stories without sharing power. I help organizations create structures that compensate, elevate, and develop lived experience experts into advisors, board members, and staff leaders, strengthening programs and improving outcomes along the way.
Homeless Day on the Hill, 2024
From Centering Voices to Transforming Leadership
Advisory Councils
We partner with your organization to design and launch advisory councils that move beyond symbolic involvement, ensuring members have clear roles and real influence on organizational outcomes.
Compensation Strategies
Recognize lived experience as expertise by developing equitable compensation models that value community knowledge, time, and contributions.
Pathways to Leadership
Build intentional pipelines that help lived experience experts grow into board, staff, and leadership roles within your organization and community.