training + facilitation

I guide social-sector teams, organizations, and networks through relational inquiry, capacity building, and collective power building.

core offerings

custom trainings + workshops

Dynamic, interactive sessions on participatory methods, anti-colonial research ethics, data justice, and practical advocacy frameworks for leadership programs, academic centers, and grantmakers.

Executive & team facilitation

Purpose-built, participatory group processes—including strategic visioning sessions, design sprints, leadership retreats, and multi-stakeholder attunement processes.

featured engagements

  • Role: Visiting Faculty & Expert Trainer [Ongoing since 2025]

  • Scope: Design and deliver a high-impact interactive training module on advocacy frameworks for cohort sessions reaching over 600+ Black women business owners for their partnership with Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women.

    Learn More About the Initiative →

  • Role: Lead Expert & Process Facilitator [2024-2025]

  • Scope: Guided center leadership, staff, and community partners through a multi-stakeholder attunement process using the Story Circle Interview Method, Data Labs, and Imagine Jams, which resulted in a strategic vision.

    Explore the Attunement Framework Report →

Past engagements

I have partnered with leaders in the following fields:

    • Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project

    • National Civil Rights & Legal Defense Organization

    • The Worker Institute 

    • Voces Unidas Rio Grande Valley

    • Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative

    • Bronx Children’s Museum

    • Brooklyn Historical Society (now Center for Brooklyn History)

    • The Laundromat Project

    • Barnard College Athena Center for Leadership

    • Drew University Neighbors in Need Project

    • New York City Public Schools Student Voice Office

    • Smith College Wurtele Center for Leadership

    • University of Richmond Bonner Center for Civic Engagement

    • Firelight Media

    • Women and Hollywood

    • Fork Office LLC

    • The Movement Cooperative

    • Mind Open Consulting LLC

“She is one of the most dynamic professionals I’ve encountered in my career, integrating scholarship and action, theory and practice, strategy with humanity. Judy is a deluxe edition Swiss Army knife. She has the stuff to go from classroom to boardroom, works equally well with youth groups and adult professionals.”

— Amallia O.