Equitable Community Engagement
Authentic engagement means more than checking a box—it’s about building trust, listening deeply, and ensuring that community voices shape decisions that impact their lives. Equitable community engagement requires creativity, transparency, accountability, and a commitment to sharing power, so that diverse perspectives, especially those often left out, are centered in the process.
The result is a process and outcomes that foster belonging, strengthen relationships, and lead to solutions the community can believe in.
Equitable Community Engagement
I help organizations move beyond outreach to true collaboration, where community members are partners in shaping solutions. This includes:
Facilitating inclusive and collaborative planning processes
Supporting organizations to identify and meaningfully involve underrepresented populations
Designing creative strategies and methods for engagement
Facilitating community forums, focus groups, and listening sessions
Building partnerships across sectors to align efforts around community priorities
Developing feedback loops to ensure transparency and accountability
Coaching leaders and staff in equitable engagement practices
Featured Projects: Equitable Community Engagement
Codman Square Anti-Displacement Planning
Codman Square United: Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation, Codman Square Neighborhood Council, Boston Project Ministries, 2025
Led by a diverse group of stakeholders in Codman Square, this community-based planning effort seeks to understand experiences of displacement in the neighborhood and co-design strategies to help residents stay and thrive amidst rapid development and rising housing costs. As the lead consultant, I am drawing on participatory action research and collaborative design methods, to ensure that resident experiences drive the planning, underrepresented voices are heard, and the plan is relevant and actionable.
Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (MVP 2.0)
MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, 2025
As an Equity Partner with MVP 2.0, I support municipalities in Massachusetts to engage environmental justice communities and other priority populations in planning for climate resilience. I coach diverse core teams of municipal staff and community liaisons to grow in their understanding of social vulnerability in their community, practice new methods of inclusive engagement, and collaborate to shape strategies for a more resilient future.
Just Engagement
People’s Collaborative Governance Network, Engagement Lab at Emerson College, Boston Planning and Development Agency, 2021
Just Engagement is the final deliverable of a 6-month collaborative design project with the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA). As part of my work with the People’s Collaborative Governance Network, I facilitated this project alongside community leaders and residents in Dorchester and East Boston. The final deliverable demonstrates priorities and strategies for institutions to implement more equitable community engagement practices.