Move to End Violence engages in training, practice, and exploration in 5 core areas to help strengthen the movement to end violence against girls and women: beloved community, transformational leadership development, organizational development for transformation, liberation and equity, and movement building for social change. Our faculty team is made up of an amazing group of folks with expertise in these areas, working together to build the capacity of our Movement Makers, their organizations, and the movement at large.
Core Training Team:
This group of practitioners, each with their own area of expertise, make up our core faculty, anchoring the Movement Makers’ training, practice and exploration over the course of their experience in the program.
Organizational Consultant
Maura is an interdependent social change facilitator, consultant and coach. Her approach to transformative leadership and organizational development is rooted in her 25-year commitment to racial and gender justice and queer liberation. She supports and challenges leaders to clarify purpose and vision, align values and practice, and create organizations that are liberatory, sustainable and adaptive. Learn More
Co-Director
Move to End Violence
Monica Dennis (She, Her, Hers) is Co-Director of Move to End Violence. Monica is a Black feminist and lifelong advocate for racial and gender justice and equity, with her work across movements spanning three decades. Learn More
Trina Greene Brown is a proud Black-feminist Mama-activist of two. She founded Parenting for Liberation for parents of Black children to envision a world where our children are free to be their most liberated selves. As faculty for Move to End Violence, Trina engages leaders within the violence against women's movement to build an inclusive gender and racial justice movement by fostering deep, authentic relationships in beloved community. Learn More
Ana Cecilia Pérez is an independent consultant, working with non-profit organizations, unions, government agencies and foundations to increase their impact on equity and inclusion and organizational effectiveness. Learn More
Core Coaching Team:
These organizational development coaches work with Movement Makers and their organizations to help bring the Move to End Violence core elements and practices home.
Independent Consultant & Director of the Daphne Foundation
Ingrid currently works as an independent consultant as well as the Director of the Daphne Foundation in New York City. She is the co-founder and chair of New York Blacks in Philanthropy. Learn More
Viveka Chen is an organizational development consultant, certified coach, facilitator and leadership trainer with a commitment to cultural competency and a strength-based approach. Learn More
Leadership and Organizational Development Coach and Consultant
Michelle Gislason, MA, is a Leadership and Organizational Development Coach and Consultant. She joined the Move to End Violence team in 2015 as an Organizational Development Coach, specializing in leadership development and peer coaching techniques. Learn More
sujin lee, she/her, is consultant with more than 20 years of experience in social change. In her Move to End Violence role as an Organizational Development coach, she helps Movement Makers and their organizations build vibrant leaders and empowering work cultures.
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Co-Director
Management Assistance Group
Elissa Sloan Perry has over 20 years of experience as a staff member, board member, consultant and coach with several individuals, organizations and initiatives in the areas of leadership, youth development and the arts. Past clients include Greenlining Institute, Partnership for Working Families, New York City Mission Society, Urban Habitat, National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, and PICO California. Learn More
Melinda Weekes-Laidlow is the President of Weekes In Advance Enterprises - an organizational development, facilitation and capacity building consultancy in arts and culture, social innovation, racial equity and collaborative leadership spaces. Learn More
Supporting Trainers:
These talented practitioners contribute to the Move to End Violence learning community through concentrated efforts that deepen our program offerings.
Executive Director
Movement Strategy Center
Mimi is the Executive Director of Movement Strategy Center. She has over two decades of organizing and consulting experience — from building local organizing institutions to statewide and national policy campaigns — with a special focus on organizing low-income communities of color. She is passionate about how the internal shifts of individuals and organizations unleash big external impact. Learn More
Racial Equity and Liberation Facilitator
Rachael Ibrahim uses her passion for the fine arts and the African Diaspora to create social change locally and globally using anti-racist and intersectional, anti-oppression frameworks. Rachael joined Move to End Violence for the second international learning exchange and has stayed involved as a convening and workshop facilitator. Learn More
Consultant
Chandra Larsen Consulting/Visualizing Change
Chandra Larsen is a trainer, facilitator, evaluator and weaver of visual displays with over 20 years of experience. She supports teams with advancing their goals through practice and experimentation. Learn More
Visual Facilitator
On the Right Mind
Claudia is visual facilitator who believes that great things happen when we come together in authentic, creative collaboration. She founded On The Right mind with a committed to help create a better world by fostering connection: to ourselves & our ideas, to others and their ideas and to the larger whole. She uses visuals as a tool for change and connection fostering meaning making, understanding and innovation. Learn More
Racial Equity and Liberation Facilitator
Heidi Maria is a racial equity and liberation facilitator all over the world, including in regional workshops hosted by Move to End Violence. Learn More
Facilitator, Trainer and Organizer
Edith Sargon is facilitator, trainer, and organizer. Learn More
JASS is dedicated to strengthening the voice, visibility, and collective organizing power of women to create a just, sustainable world for all. Our feminist movement-building and popular education strategies combine innovative learning, organizing, communications and action that equip and energize activists, expand alliances and mobilize women’s movements for greater political influence and to ensure the safety of activists in an increasingly risky world. Founded in 2002 as a community of practice by activists, popular educators and scholars from 13 countries, JASS generates cutting-edge knowledge about power, movements and change to shape the theory, practice and policies for advancing women’s rights and democratic change. Working with women and diverse organizations in 27 countries, JASS’ agile regional and international structure and processes are designed to support grassroots organizing as well as local-to-global solidarity and action, placing frontline activists and agendas at the heart of our social justice work. Learn More
Trans*Visible was birthed in 2016, through community conversations between Trans* people who feel excluded, silenced, or misrepresented in current movement spaces. Trans*Visible provides facilitation and thought partnership to Move to End Violence. Learn More
Norma Wong supports leaders and organizations interested in the application of Zen principles and training to their work and lives. As part of Move to End Violence, Norma brings these principles to life in an experiential and secular practice, focusing on what is needed for individual, organizational, movement, and societal change. Learn More
Evaluator:
Since the inception of Move to End Violence, we have partnered with an extraordinary evaluator to help chart and define our successes.
Director, Philanthropy, Equity and Youth
Social Policy Research Associates
Heather Lewis-Charp is the Director of the Philanthropy, Equity, and Youth Division at Social Policy Research Associates, where she oversees much of the company’s research and evaluation work. Ms. Lewis-Charp has led numerous evaluations of community organizing, capacity building, leadership development, and systems-level change and served as a key analyst on the evaluation of Move to End Violence since its inception. She assumed leadership over the evaluation in May 2016. Learn More
Training and Coaching Emeritus:
Move to End Violence has been honored to have the following practitioners play integral roles in shaping the Move to End Violence program, core elements and practices. These experts continue to be a beloved part of our community.
Puanani Burgess, consults and does her work One-Peace-At-A-Time. She is also a poet, cultural translator and has been a lecturer with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai`i, where she was the first “Community Scholar in Residence.” She is noted for her experience in community, family and values-based economic development, mediation and storytelling processes as part of conflict transformation, and developing community-based organizations. Learn More
B. Cole holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and has worked as a community facilitator, strategist, and consultant for the last ten years. Learn More
Senior Analyst
Lake Research Partners
Cate Gormley, a Senior Analyst with Lake Research Partners, conducts research on a range of progressive issues including education, reproductive health, the environment, women's issues, children's health, poverty and more. Learn More
Strategic Communications Consultant, Trainer, Facilitator
a strategic communications consultant, trainer and facilitator, has a 20-year track record of crafting communication and advocacy campaigns with non-profits and foundations everywhere from Abuja to Albuquerque. Her clients tackle issues related to violence against women, education for girls, reproductive health and rights, and achieving greater economic opportunity for all. Learn More
Jordan Fitzgerald has been an activist and advocate for women's and reproductive health for over 15 years. She began her career in the domestic violence movement as an organizer, trainer, and victim’s advocate in Indiana and joined Planned Parenthood Federation of America to serve as a field manager assisting states in grassroots organizing, strategic planning, coalition building, and policy implementation. Learn More
Rockwood Leadership Institute
Toby is a facilitator and trainer with a background in community development, organizational excellence, conflict resolution and participatory strategic planning. Her work focuses on developing leadership within progressive nonprofits, supporting values-based planning in grassroots organizations and cultivating visionary leadership among women. Learn More
Founder and Executive Director
Movement Strategy Center
Taj James is the founder and Executive Director of the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) national intermediary, based in Oakland California, that facilitates progressive movement building through the development of strategic alliances. Learn More
Helen Kim is an organizational development consultant, facilitator and executive coach with 18 years of experience working with social change organizations and leaders in the U.S. and internationally. She is co-author of Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership, a member of the Building Movement Project, and served on the board of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training and the international planning committee for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). Learn More
Network Director
Hand in Hand
Stacy Kono is Network Director at Hand in Hand, which organizes employers of nannies, in-home housekeepers, and attendants towards workers rights at home! Previously Stacy worked with Rockwood Leadership Institute where she was responsible for oversight of trainings and fellowship programs. Learn More
Partner
Springboard Partners
Danielle Lewis leads Springboard Partners, an organization that uses the power of communication to do more good. Springboard helps nonprofits and foundations make more impact on issues that matter. Learn More
President
Lake Research Partners
Celinda Lake is a leading political strategist, serving as tactician and senior advisor to the national party committees, dozens of Democratic incumbents, and challengers at all levels of the electoral process. Celinda and her firm are known for cutting-edge research on progressive issues. Learn More
Consultant
Chandra Larsen Consulting/Visualizing Change
Chandra Larsen is a trainer, facilitator, evaluator and weaver of visual displays with over 20 years of experience. She supports teams with advancing their goals through practice and experimentation. Learn More
Jackie Payne served as the Director of Move to End Violence from its inception until February 2018. A lawyer and policy advocate with 20 years of experience working to affect social change, Jackie brings an intersectional and cross-movement lens to her gender justice work. She recently founded GALvanize USA which creates safe, supportive opportunities for busy women who want a kinder, more respectful way to figure out how to make a real difference in our communities and our country. Learn More
Executive Director
Solidaire Network
Vini is the Executive Director of the Solidaire Network. In a wide-ranging international career devoted to social, ecological, and economic justice, she previously served as Executive Director of Thousand Currents for 9 years. Learn More
Founder and Principal
Strategies for Social Change
Elsa Rios is the Founder and Principal of Strategies for Social Change and Co-Director of RoadMap, a national network of capacity building consultants. Learn More
President and Executive Director
Race Forward
Rink Sen is the President and Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation and Publisher of Colorlines.com. Learn More
Principal/Organizational Development Consultant
Process Matters
Lisa Silverberg is an organizational development consultant specializing in capacity building, leadership and team development, and strategic and project planning. Lisa partners with cohort organizations in Cycles 2 and 3 to design and support organizational change.
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Program Officer, Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD)
Ford Foundation
Marissa M. Tirona is the Program Officer for the Ford Foundation's Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD). Marissa specializes in leadership development, nonprofit sustainability, governance and performance metrics. Learn More
Roberto Vargas, DrPH, MSW, is an educator, community organizer and organization consultant with more than 30 years experience providing leadership development, team building and strategic planning services primarily to organizations engaged in advocacy, community service, empowerment and social change. Learn More
Norma Wong supports leaders and organizations interested in the application of Zen principles and training to their work and lives. As part of Move to End Violence, Norma brings these principles to life in an experiential and secular practice, focusing on what is needed for individual, organizational, movement, and societal change. Learn More
Kristen Zimmerman is committed to bringing about a world that recognizes our fundamental interdependence. As an artist-storyteller, coach, strategist and facilitator she helps people open to new ways of thinking and being, align around purpose and move towards action. Learn More
Evaluator Emeritus:
Move to End Violence has been honored to have Hanh Cao Yu play an integral role in shaping the evaluation component of the Move to End Violence program.
Chief Learning Officer
The California Endowment
Hanh Cao Yu is Chief Learning Officer at The California Endowment where she is responsible for learning, evaluation, and impact activities, and ensures that local communities, local and state grantees, board and staff understand the results and lessons of the Foundation’s investments in its 10-year Building Healthy Communities initiative. Hanh had led the effort to evaluate Move to End Violence's unique, long-term approach to social change. Learn More
