Organizations are designed. So are their values.

Most organizations say what they believe in a values statement and then contradict it in how they govern, budget, and make decisions. We help you close that gap: designing the structures, culture, and accountability practices that make your values real.

Expertise

Diversity & Social Impact Strategy

Organizational Design & Strategy

From governance and values to hiring, budgeting, and the hard public messages, we help you align how your organization actually works with what it says it stands for through research, co-designed metrics, and structures built to last.

Workshops &
Coaching

Coaching & Facilitation

In-person and online sessions that help leaders and teams navigate the conversations most organizations avoid—about power, difference, and accountability—and turn them into shared practice.

Reputation  Management

Alignment & Risk

We help you find the gaps between what your organization says and what it does in policy, practice, and public voice, and close them before they become a crisis.

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Catalina Velásquez helps organizations redesign themselves from the inside out.

A feminist scholar and strategist, she works with leaders to build governance, culture, and accountability that hold up under pressure, drawing on nearly two decades organizing, teaching, and advising at the intersection of policy, movements, and institutional change.

Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, NBC, the Atlantic and Univisión.

News

How will Trump's assault on DACA hit 'dreamers'?

Are the hopes of 800,000 DREAMers set to become nightmares?

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Creating a Transgender-Affirming Organization

L’lerrét Ailith, Communications Manager, BYP100

Kasey Suffredini, Chief Program Officer, Freedom for All Americans

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Unfinished Business: Movements

Are the hopes of 800,000 DREAMers set to become nightmares?

US President Donald Trump said he’d treat young ...

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Bathroom Bills Don't Just Harm Trans People

The recent passage of House Bill 2, the North Carolina law that includes a provision preventing trans people from use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, ...

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Woman Crush(ing the Patriarchy) Wednesday: Catalina Velasquez

As a transgender undocumented Latina, this week’s #WCW Catalina Velasquez cannot compartmentalize her identities – so don’t expect her to.

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