Equity Labs Facilitators

Each of our facilitators shares a deep commitment to building a better world—one where vulnerability, learning from mistakes, and engaging in communal, sustainable practices pave the way for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Your Equity Labs Facilitators lead every workshop with expertise and insight, drawing from diverse industries such as education, human resources, and environmental justice. Learn more about this dedicated group of DEIJ advocates below.

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Kathryne Grove

Kathryne works to create fair and inclusive communities by identifying barriers and helping organizations make changes. She does this through policy development, coaching leaders, supporting diversity efforts, and training on bias.

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Christina Dellaventura

Facilitator Christina Dellaventura is a social program and policy specialist based in New York City with areas of expertise in strategic planning, cohort facilitation, and program design, management, and evaluation

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Sudha Shrestha

Facilitator Sudha Shrestha is a first generation Nepalese American scholar practitioner, educator and co-conspirator in the pursuit of collective liberation.

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Linda Newell

Linda Newell (she/her) dedicates her life to projects that transform systems, communities, and hearts with a trauma-informed, socially just lens.

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Lynda Duran

Lynda Duran (she/her/ella) empowers students, faculty, and staff to re-envision higher education from an asset-based lens in which we can all have culturally meaningful experiences as we collectively disrupt racist, sexist, and homophobic practices.

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Taz Romine-Mann

Taz brings a wealth of experience and the ability to contextualize challenging topics and connect deep, emotional work to a diverse spectrum of lived experiences.

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Fabiola Mora

Fabiola Mora (she/her/ella) is an experienced DEI scholar-practitioner whose work is rooted in humanity and an ethic of love and care.

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Heather Arnold-Renicker

Heather brings her passion for anti-oppressive practices to her work as a professor of Social Work and consultant.

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Carolyn Coles

Carolyn is a doctoral student of Criminology, passionate about education reform, economic development, and racial justice.

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Stephanie Lang

Stephanie leads with her heart, and a growth mindset, and has a background in Learning & Development at corporations (and improv!) which contributes to her facilitating change within individuals and groups.

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Scott Van Loo

Scott has extensive experience in education, facilitation and equity, facilitates through an identity-conscious lens, and has a passion for promoting equity, and creating transformational workplaces.

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Patricia Gonzalez

With a doctorate in Organizational Change & Leadership, Patricia has experience in multicultural student leadership, promoting social justice and increasing equity in higher education institutions.

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Brianna Johnson

With a background in nonprofit leadership and higher education, Brianna is passionate about building equitable communities, fostering connections, and engaging white folks in the conversation about race to deconstruct systems of oppression.

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Courtney Ngai

As a Chemistry PhD, Courtney utilizes her strengths in research inquiry and passion for understanding others to support change and equity in STEM education.

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Ebony Wilkinson

Coach Ebony Wilkinson is active in the nonprofit sector and her community, volunteering and holding youth empowerment workshops.

Blog

Liberating Leadership Pt. 3: Self Leadership

In part 3 of the Liberating Leadership series, Equity Labs Facilitator Taz Rommine-Mann delves into the intrapersonal level of leadership through what it means to be a self-leader.

Liberating Leadership: Leadership Without Leaders

In part 2 of the Liberating Leadership series, Executive Director Chenthu Jayton outlines what liberating leadership looks like when the framework centers systems and processes rather than people allowing the freedom for a leader to be uncertain, to change course, and to be deliberate. This framework liberates leadership and it liberates leaders.

Crafting an Equity Minded Ethos

In our final blog of the year, Executive Director Chenthu Jayton provides a guide to create your own equity-minded ethos statement for the new year

Birthing Change: What to Expect When Finding a DEI Consultant

Equity Labs approaches DEIJ consulting as a relational, compassionate process of 'birthing change'. Here are six factors to consider when selecting a diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting partner.

Liberating Leadership Pt 1

Equity Labs introduces the Liberating Leadership series to offer criticality and expansive ideas on how we teach, learn, and enact leadership. Part 1 introduces what liberatory leadership is and can look like.

Queering the Binary

Guest writer Sho McClarence, jumps into the concept of queering the binary and how this can support the creation and sustainability of an inclusive workplace.

Equitable Hiring

Marketing Manager Kenna Andreas-Lee dives into the hiring process Equity Labs created to center diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice and the applicants experience with insight into how to incorporate it into your own hiring practices.

The Unignorable Truth of the Asian American Wealth Gap

Priya Adhikari, MSW shares her story to dive deep into the understanding of the Asian American Wealth Gap that exists in the US and provides steps to dismantling barriers.

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