Consulting
Grant Writing
An expert in every stage of the grant lifecycle, I can work with your team to develop a plan that meets the needs of your organization, fitting solidly within your mission and ensuring broad coverage across all programs.
I understand the need for unrestricted funding, funding for non-programmatic costs, and the urgent need for more flexibility in direct service funding.
As an Executive Director and Program Manager, I obtained over $2 million in grants, including federal, state, county, and private foundation grants, with a 70% success rate.
Philanthropy is a dynamic field, currently growing in a long-overdue trend towards non-traditional fundraising practices, approaching grantmaking as a collaborative relationship between funders and grantees. This can include funding overhead and non-programmatic costs, providing for equitable salary rates, funding grassroots and organizations without 501(c)3 certifications, and other avenues for support that traditionally have been difficult for nonprofits to access. I can work with your organization to ensure we apply for grants that fit the work you are doing, increasing capacity and ensuring sustainable operations without mission drift or compromising your values.
Systems Advocacy
Systems advocacy involves working for long term changes on behalf of those who have been historically and currently prevented from accessing justice and equity. Encompassing legislative and policies on a federal, state, tribal, and local level, this type of advocacy works to improve the lives of whole groups of people across many identities, rather than focusing on the experience of one individual. It depends on the lived experiences of those individuals to determine how to best adapt the systems of government and society to serve those traditionally ignored or abused by those systems.
As an Indigenous survivor of domestic abuse, military sexual trauma, and sexual violence, I have first-hand knowledge of how the current systems conspire to silence and discredit victims and ensure justice is on the terms of the powerful. Together we can map out an area of influence for your organization, company, or team to work in, collaborating with others to change outcomes for all Indigenous communities.
Program Development
My program development experience spans military and government agencies, third party logistics and supply chain work, victim services programs, and nonprofit systems development.
Service programs must be developed from a decolonial approach, trauma informed and rooted in the community they seek to serve. Standard project management processes may not work to ensure survivors are surrounded by a network of culturally competent service providers. Systems advocacy must go hand in hand with direct advocacy, ensuring positive outcomes for the greatest number of clients. Ultimately, program development should be tailored to the community you serve, the mission you are striving towards, and the resources available.
How is your victim services program equipped to respond to Native victims? How are you gathering information about the identity of your Indigenous clients? Do you have adequate connections to Native service providers to ensure culturally-centered care is available to your survivors? I can help your organization answer those questions and develop a service program that truly supports the healing of Indigenous survivors
Legislation and Policy
The legislative body of work in this nation is designed to serve a very specific sect of society. Centuries of lawmaking has resulted in a tangled web of policies that restricts the self-determination of Indigenous peoples.
Marginalization of communities is by design, and in order to recenter the experience and wellbeing of those communities, we must work in tandem across all sectors. This includes grassroots organizers, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies, all of which have a role to play in the ultimate emancipation of our people.
Together with statewide advocacy groups and Washington State Legislators, I have been privileged to testify and influence multiple bills, including the following:
Alongside your organization, I can advise on how to best influence, develop, and support legislation through a decolonial lens, ensuring that tribal sovereignty is protected even as victims are supported and communities served.