I’m a co-founding member and Program Director of Partners for Collaborative Change.

Formerly the Practicing Freedom Collective, Partners for Collaborative Change is an organization made up of educators, facilitators, artists and organizers who each bring decades of experience in collaborative, transformative work. Our theory and methodologies are rooted in Popular Education, Theatre of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research and Healing Justice. PFCC works for organizational, interpersonal and personal transformation through pedagogical practices that support the development of critical consciousness.

OUR PURPOSE is to support system change towards a world where human dignity and the planet are respected and our interconnection is honored. We work to transform change-making itself, so that it is truly led by and for those directly affected by the issues our movements work to address. Recognizing that every organization and every challenge is unique, we strategically co-design each engagement to support our clients’ efforts in a range of ways:

• Engage in community-led education, research, design and planning;
• Develop and apply a framework for the interdependence of social justice and the environment;
• Update organizational structures and practices to become more values aligned, and clarify roles and decision-making for improved transparency and accountability;
• Establish a practice for transformative processes to address harm and conflict; and
• Become more resilient and equitable with critical consciousness, deepened mutual trust, understanding and sense of belonging.
• PFCC’s work is rooted in historic social justice movement work. Our methodologies are influenced by the theories and practices of Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Augusto Boal, Myles Horton, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Valerie Batts, Mimi Kim, Mia Mingus, among many others.