LifeCircle Consulting

I able help non-mental health care providers better serve clients who are coping with perinatal stress, depression, anxiety, and trauma. I can also help mental health care providers provide lactation-compatible care to their clients.

I can provide a roadmap for developing cultural competence and humility and help you increase your cultural knowledge and skill so you can be more effective in your work in cross-cultural settings.

I can help you engage in a systematic process of ethical decision making that includes an analysis of frequently unseen factors, such as cultural differences, privilege, and power.

I can help you design and take steps that will allow you to identify, dismantle, and recreate policies, procedures, customs, and structures in your organization that currently result in inequitable organizational outcomes.

My anti-oppression work includes:

• Serving as the Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for JUUstice Washington
• Serving as the Program Manager for the Unitarian Universalist Washington State Action Network Evolution Project
• Co-organizing and speaking, facilitating, and debriefing at the 2013 Inequity in Breastfeeding Support Summit: The Impact of Institutional Racism, Power, and White Privilege on Breastfeeding Rates and Maternal-Infant Health
• Serving as a member of the Design Team for the 2014 Lactation Summit: Addressing Inequities within the Lactation Consultant Profession
• Authoring "Pandora’s Box Is Already Open: Answering the Ongoing Call to Dismantle Institutional Oppression in the Field of Breastfeeding"
• Creating and presenting "Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility? A Roadmap for Lactation Specialists"
• Creating and presenting "Unpacking the Invisible Diaper Bag of White Privilege: Deconstructing Racial Inequities in Breastfeeding Support"
• Creating and presenting "Ready, Set, Listen! Preparing to Hear the Missing Voices of the Lactation Consultant Profession"
• Co-authoring the "Summary Report of the 2014 Lactation Summit: Addressing Inequities within the Lactation Profession"
• Co-authoring "Undoing institutional racism in perinatal support organizations: First steps for eliminating racial inequity in breastfeeding support" (in press)