Deborah
Meehan

Pronouns

She/her

Location

Oakland, CA

Organization

Deborah Meehan Consulting

Website

Twitter & Instagram

@deborahmmeehan

Languages

English

Skills, Expertise, and Areas of Practice

Evaluation and Learning, Network Development, Leadership Development, Research, Writing.

Approaches

Assessment / Tools, Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Training / Workshops.

Key Values/Pillars

I believe strongly in embodying now the values of the just and equitable world we are trying to create, and I am constantly learning from LLC about what this looks like in practices of wellness and care. I also believe strongly in centering the wisdom and experiences of those at the margins and most impacted by the oppression of WSC.

Values/Pillars Embodied

Humility about my limitations as a white woman and referring opportunities sent to me on to others who will bring an important needed equity lens by partnering with BIPOC consultants to extend opportunities, by not facilitating as a white woman, and by speaking up to other white people when I see something wrong.

Worked with LLC In the Past

Yes


Ada
Palotai

Pronouns

She/her

Location

Oakland, CA

Organization

StarLion Collective

Website

Twitter & Instagram

Demographic Compostion of Leadership

SLC is an all-women-of-color non-hierarchical team, with current members identifying with the lived experiences and cultures of the peoples of the Asian diaspora. Multiple members of our team identify as mixed race and queer, and all members of our team identify with immigrant experiences from our own migration stories, those of our families, and our ancestral lineages.

Languages

English

Skills, Expertise, and Areas of Practice

Evaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Conflict Resolution / Mediation / Transformation, Embodied Leadership Practice, Change Management Processes, Organizational Development, Personal Resilience / Wellness / Self Care / Mindfulness, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, Healing.

Approaches

Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation, Thought partnership, Radical collaboration, Co-conspiratorship.

Key Values/Pillars

– Collective Wisdom
– Wholeness
– Sacred Responsibility
– Radical Love

Values/Pillars Embodied

We believe and approach our work as the creators and holders of containers where the wisdom that already exists in the room can be tapped into and elicited organically; we believe in showing up as your whole self, in the fullness of all of your beautiful and complex identities, and sometimes that means showing up raggedy, but most importantly it means interrupting the habits of perfection and performance and living into the values of authenticity and integrity; we believe in this notion of kuleana — a sacred responsibility to be in right relationship to ourselves, to our neighbors and siblings and to our mother earth; and lastly we are guided by the value of radical love in the way that we center and ground in the transformative power of relationships.

Worked with LLC In the Past

Yes