Services & Methods

Services Offered: Advise and guide nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and community projects on ethical leadership, governance, and compliance. Design organizational policies, codes of ethics, and risk management strategies aligned with legal standards and community values. Support equity-focused decision-making in project implementation and leadership development.

Methods & Tools: Analysis of legal frameworks governing nonprofits and social enterprises, ethical evaluation of organizational dilemmas through case studies and research projects, integration of race equity, inclusion, and justice frameworks into leadership practices, development of organizational codes of conduct, policies, and best practices.

Impact Example: Applied advanced knowledge from CLDR 602 to research, analyze, and provide actionable solutions for real-world organizational ethical dilemmas, ensuring legal compliance while promoting inclusive and equitable outcomes.

Services Offered: Conduct community-based research that prioritizes collaboration with local stakeholders. Use storytelling to document, share, and amplify community narratives, connecting lived experiences with actionable insights. Integrate creative methods into data collection, interpretation, and dissemination.

Methods & Tools: Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR), storytelling & digital storytelling (photography, video, narrative workshops), Data Walks & participatory evaluation, indigenous research methods and rigorous imagination.

Impact Example: Led projects empowering street-connected children and women in Uganda through art-based interventions (Streetlights Uganda), integrating participatory research methods to ensure programs reflected community needs, assets, and voices.

Services Offered: Artistic direction and implementation for visual art, mural projects, fashion, and interior design that align with social impact goals. Use arts as a tool for healing, economic empowerment, and community identity-building. Design interactive experiences for audiences that bridge cultural understanding and civic engagement.

Methods & Tools: Visual arts, textile and fashion design, mural works, and recycled art sculptures, sustainable interior design solutions integrating ecological and community values, art therapy, creative mentoring, and youth empowerment programs.

Impact Example: Trained over 90 underprivileged women in fashion and design through the Ntunga Program, producing over 1,000 creative tote bags for international events, while creating pathways for skill development and economic independence.

Services Offered: Provide leadership coaching for nonprofit executives, social entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Facilitate workshops on restorative practices, deep listening, and creating safe and brave spaces. Guide leaders in adopting ethical, asset-based, and creative approaches to community problem-solving.

Methods & Tools: Leader-as-Coach frameworks & Boss-to-Coach leadership approaches, restorative circles, intergroup dialogue, and allyship practices, placemaking and participatory program design tools.

Impact Example: Developed training programs that merge creative arts with leadership development, helping youth, women, and communities cultivate both artistic skills and leadership capacities.

Services Offered: Design transformative programs using Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approaches. Integrate creative methods, trauma-informed practices, and participatory research to empower communities. Develop programs that address root causes while building community capacity and resilience.

Methods & Tools: Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) frameworks, trauma-informed program design, participatory research and evaluation, creative program design integrating arts and community development, grant writing and program funding strategies.

Impact Example: Designed and implemented multiple programs at Streetlights Uganda that have collectively served over 2,000 children and 90+ women, creating measurable impact in education, economic empowerment, and community well-being.