Transform your work into a force for collective care and justice with organizational development, policy strategy, political organizing, and education that inspires lasting change.

“If you can make it in the room but your morals and beliefs cannot, you have not gained power, power has gained you.” - Nina Turner

“If you can make it in the room but your morals and beliefs cannot, you have not gained power, power has gained you.” - Nina Turner 

Organizational Development

Our Approach

We believe in transparent diagnosing of issues and identifying growth areas as a fundamental process of healing and maintaining an organization’s integrity and collective work, especially and even more so, in times that calls for a cultural shift and reorganization that meets the needs and visions of everyone on your team. Organizations are most effective in achieving their mission to create equitable and diverse workplaces when they carve out pathways and pipelines for board, staff, and leadership development to stimulate growth and build healthy relationships. This vision includes being explicit about healthy communication skills and healthy management relationships between employees and employers, honoring a work balance, sense of community and mentorship opportunities at all levels of the organization.

Our Goal

We are here to support you through transforming your organizational culture through co-creating practices, learning spaces that celebrate intergenerational diversity and your organization’s ecosystems and structures rather than the often default tension and alienation that is created when change occurs. Our goal is to institute holistics systems, share tools and knowledge that will sustain your organization’s infrastructure and move your mission forward for the decades to come.

    • Hiring Searches

    • Restructuring Processes 

    • Volunteer Development & Support 

    • Retreats 

    • Strategic Planning & Visioning 

    • Management

    • Leadership Development 

    • Leadership Coaching  

    • Board Development

    • Data Strategy

    • Project Management

    • Multi-Program Monitoring and Evaluation Tools

    • Professional Development

    • Interpersonal Relationships

    • Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion Implementation

Political Organizing

Our Approach

We believe in power building and the mass mobilization of our communities to create political change. In doing this work, we carry our lineages of the global third-world fight for liberation and our understanding of the US governmental structure while honoring our movement ancestors and elders who fought for the right to vote during the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi, and Black feminists who remind us “Our Existence is Political” and the importance of harm reduction as a principle and strategy needed on our route towards our collective liberation. We hold that electoral politics will not free us. We do believe in supporting candidates, organizing and campaigns that will shift power to the people and build our collective capacity for marginalized communities to live and thrive with sustainability, dignity, and agency.

Our Goal

We understand why we need folks in office. As folks whose communities and values are not represented in our government, there is no size fits all formula to winning but we know the work and digging deep of ourselves it takes to get there. We know too well the internal obstacles, the doubt that can cloud us, the questioning of oneself, the external gaslighting and expected shrinking of ourselves as we enter spaces that were never meant for us. We are here to help you envision yourself and for those like us to envision ourselves at all the tables for the generations to come. We provide holistic consulting to radical visionary political candidates to ensure that as you run, you run as you because you are who we need.

    • 1 on 1 Candidate Initial Consulting: What Would It Take to Win? Am I Ready? Where do I begin? 

    • Candidate Team Consulting: Storytelling and Content Creation, Fundraising and Financing, Community Engagement Strategies and GOTV Logistics 

    • Communication Design: 

      • Digital Design: Branding & Identity Exploration, Website Design, Newsletter Design, Social Media Graphic Templates

      • Print Design: Palm Cards, Mailers, Lawn Signs, Newspaper Ads

    Get in touch to discuss our sliding scale offer for 2SQTLGBTIA+  BIPOC candidates who come from low-income backgrounds and are rooted in their home communities.

Policy & advocacy Development

Our Approach

Policy and advocacy can be fun, engaging, creative, and center the experiences of the people most impacted. We are committed to shifting the power dynamics of policy development, shifting power to the community who are the experts of their lives and should lead. Changing and shifting policy at any level can be done by anyone- community members, activists, stakeholders and those most affected- but it requires a basic understanding of the political structures and those in these systems. And this is where the current political system fails us, it makes it as though our needs and vision for our community are far fetched dreams and unobtainable. It can make us feel small and incapable of making change because we don’t have the finances, network, or tools to navigate the red tape.

Our Goal

We want to demystify the notion that only some people can shape policy. We want to support those who are excited, passionate and inspired to create change and engage others in advocacy and development. Whether you are mobilizing your community, staff, or a particular constituency, we will provide the tools and a blueprint to design your policy advocacy campaign, or help you think through designing legislation.

Education & Speaking

Our Approach

Our work is rooted in a deliberate holistic investment in each other’s growth and our collective knowledge. Our network of consultants pride ourselves in our decades of being cultural workers, facilitators and educators on the frontlines of educational social justice with experience working in schools districts, nonprofits and supporting communities on building out programs, curriculums, trainings and conferences with an anti-racist, anti-oppression, and transformative justice lens.

Our Goal

We believe in meeting people where they are at and tailoring content and methodology of facilitation to the needs and goals of our partners. Please see our list of previous work to get an understanding of what we can offer and tailor for you.

    • Equity Framework - Board Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County 

    • Language Justice: Multilingual Learners Research Process and Practice

    • Youth worker and Adult Supporter of Grassroots Organizing

    • Social Emotional Learning for Youth Workers and Educators

    • Understanding My Capacity for Youth Workers and Educators 

    • Intersectionality, Bias and Isms for Youth Workers and Educators

    • Facilitations Techniques for Youth Workers and Educators

    • Gender Responsiveness in Youth Development

    • Management & Leadership: De-escalation practices & conflict resolution for Youth Workers and and Educators 

    • Gender Affirming Care for Edward M. Kennedy Staff

    • LGBTQIA2S and Healthcare 101 for Nursing Students at QCC

    • Affirmation Cards for Outstanding Life (OSL) LGBTQ elders

    • Memory is An Act of Love: Writing your Queer Stories for Outstanding Life (OSL) LGBTQ elders

    • Developing your Personal Story for Organizers 

    • Art as Resistance

    • Introduction to Mindfulness 

    • Leadership and Management in Youth Work for Framingham Public Schools

    • Health Equity Workshops for City of Worcester’s Health & Human Services Department 

    • Imposter Syndrome for University of Miami 

    • Organizing 101 for Worcester Youth Movement 

    • Power Analysis for Clark University’s Youth Workers Training Institute 

    • Power as Currency for Clark University’s Youth Workers Training Institute

    • Cultural Inclusivity for Educators

    • Trauma of Inequity and Health Disparities, Worcester ACTs 

    • Education, Equity and Inclusion Series: Navigating School Districts

    • Adverse Childhood and Community Experiences, Deep Center

    • Foundational Learning Series on Racial Equity, Trauma & Resiliency 

    • Telling our Stories: Data & Assessment for Grassroots Organizations 

    • Boys & Young Men Voices: Creating Spaces of Resistance & Resilience 

    • Self-regulation, effective communication and mindfulness series: Write it out - Dear Me letter & Tell your story; Act it out - Fair fighting, listening & sharing; Create it - Craft 3 art-based mindfulness interventions that work for you

    • JEDI Series for MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Community Engagement Approach: Centering BIPOC Communities for MA Department of Public Health, Division of Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention and Services.

    • Southeast Asian Social Justice Leadership, Black and Asian Solidarity: Healing Justice

    • Audre Lorde Transformative Art School Summer 2023

    • City of Worcester’s Recreation Worcester Afterschool and Summer Curriculum

    • Latino Education Institute’s Sex Ed Programming, Latinas Achievers In Search of Success, and Photovoice & Service Learning for English Language Learners 

    • Language Justice Curriculum (Spanish)

    • YWCA’S Young Women and Leadership Program 

    • Main South Youth Corps

    • Raising BIPOC Men Academy 

    • Youth Counselor in Training Program 

    • Cycling Safety for Youth 

    • Podcasting for Change 101 - WooStories

    • City of Worcester’s Whole Kids

    • City of Worcester Youth Workers Summer Symposium 

    • Worcester Youth Development and Professional Leadership Symposium: Urban Educators Edition

    • Worcester Youth Workers Alliance

    • New England Youth Organizing Network (NEYON) Gathering

    • NEYON Advisory Annual Retreat and Youth Worker Leadership Network Retreat 

    • Voices of Worcester, Voices of Ferguson Conference 

    • YWCA’s International Women’s Day 

    • Worcester’s Boys & Men of Color Conference

    • Korean American Citizens League of New England’s Young Leader Symposium Speaker

    • Clark University/s Lavender Graduation Ceremony Honoring LGBTQIA+ Students Keynote Speaker

    • LGBTQ Victory Institute’s 37th Annual International LGBTQ Leaders Conference “The Next Rainbow Wave: Running for Office” Panelist

    • Youth MOVE National Youth Making an Impact Through Civic Engagement

    • Clark University’s  “Community Organizing and Civic Engagement: Grassroots Organizing” and "Justice to Jobs” Panelist

    • Holy Cross "Providing Abortion Care in States with Bans and Without: Stories from the Midwest, Texas, and Worcester" Panelist

    • “Preparation for the Oral National Examination,” “The role of the medical interpreter in end-of-life transcultural communication,” and  “Medical interpreters and community health workers, when roles converge” at the Paving the Way to Health Care Annual Conference in 2011 and 2013

    • Supporting bilingual community health workers who facilitate access for linguistically diverse population, American Public Health Association 2011 Annual Meeting and Exposition, Washington, DC

FAQs

  • We work with individuals as well as organizations of all sizes. Our clients come to us ready to devote time and resources to addressing social injustices and systemic gaps in their communities of focus. Our clients typically share our same values, are growth and action oriented, and have a willingness to be collaborative, co-create solutions. We hold that our clients are experts in their field but may need our support to bridge assessing and identify issues towards building strategies, approaches, skills and sustainable pathways of implementation. Our previous clients have included: non-profit organizations, health centers, grassroots organizations, state departments, and other consulting groups.

  • We would schedule an initial consultation to learn more about each client, the organization, and what the hopes and goals are in working with us. We would then debrief internally in our collective to discuss who holds the expertise and skill sets and how many of us would be needed for this partnership. (Of course, clients can request specific consultant(s) but we cannot guarantee they will be available but we will do our best to place them on the team). After creating a team, we will then reconvene with our client to offer a proposal that will include our approach, scope of work, timeline, deliverables, and cost. We approach this work relationally, co-creating and adjusting as needed to meet the hopes and goals of the project.

  • During our initial consultation we will learn about you, your organization, your needs and goals as well as your ideal timeline and budget for the project. After meeting with you, our collective will reconvene and put together a proposal for you that will include our approach, scope of work, timeline, deliverables, and cost.

  • Contact us by filling out our contact us form! If you have specific questions, you can email us at: info@nguyenesparza.com