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Benefits of Anti-Oppression & Inclusiveness Work

Anti-oppression and inclusiveness work allow organizations to better accomplish their missions, live their values, and have an intentional impact. The purpose and benefits of this work include: Create an environment that is genuinely cohesive, welcoming, and equitable through self reflection, action, and meaningful alliances. Improve an organization’s services and accountability to the communities it serves. Transform organizational culture, policies, and structures to support the full realization of people’s talents, leadership, and creativity. Comprehensively resolve conflicts. Increase understanding and awareness of ...

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Services & Solutions

Transformative Alliances LLC offers a range of anti-oppression and inclusiveness services. Workshops and Presentations Organizational Planning and Assessments Individual and Small Group Coaching Mediation Please note that my primary (though not exclusive) areas of focus are race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and class.  I look forward to helping you explore issues around identity, including: how we treat one another; how identity is imbedded into our beliefs, organizations, and institutions; and how identity unconsciously influences the ideas we carry about ...

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Anti-Oppression Work

Anti-oppression work both reveals and addresses the root causes of many cross-identity issues that organizations face. Anti-oppression theory maintains that certain identity groups are valued above others, and have more social power.  This imbalance of power is rooted in long histories of inequity faced by women, people of color, LGBQ populations, low-income people, transgender individuals, marginalized religious groups, non-citizens, people with disabilities, and several other identity groups.  These inequities, or social injustices, have been enacted and reinforced by power structures ...

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About Dara

For as long as I can remember, I have been deeply committed to the fair and equitable treatment of people.  This guides my work. Being a queer, mixed race woman has provided me with a lifetime of observations on how power and privilege work, as well as its tremendous, multilayered impact. I want to provide people with the tools they need to re-envision their organizations and interpersonal relationships. I want to help people build powerful and transformative alliances. I have ...