Kelly McGowan |
Client Highlights |
I partner with community, organization and movement builders who are working for equity and justice through personal practice, emergent strategy, participatory decision making and collective action.
I am a facilitator with Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, an international steward of the Art of Hosting/Participatory Leadership, and a founding member of the WhatsNextNow?, a collective of facilitators dedicated to building individual and collective capacity to have meaningful conversations about race in equity and justice work. Since being a student leader in the US Anti-Apartheid and Divestment Movement, I have worked for racial and economic justice at the intersection of social crisis and political will (ACT-UP, harm reduction) and have co-created both failed as well as tested and scaled social innovations. I earned a degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University and a master’s degree with a focus in health policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I studied structural family therapy directly with the revolutionary practitioner Salvador Minuchin and harm reduction with the original US-based educator Edith Springer. I learned from my students as a teaching associate with the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. I practice Permaculture with friends and neighbors of the Bashakill Family Farm. Find recommendations and connect with me on LinkedIn. Read the dated, but ever-relevant posts on a collaborative blog Power & Privilege 2.0 Check out my interview with Lex Schroeder for the New Prosperity Initiative during the height of Occupy. |
RegionalAHRCNY, NYC
Amida Care, NYC Crossroads Community Food Network, Maryland Fortune Society, David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, NYC New York Transgender Advocacy Group, NY Sanctuary for Families, NYC Sex Worker Project, Urban Justice Center, NYC Sustainable South Bronx, NY NationalHarm Reduction Coalition
InterAct SEIU HIV Prevention Justice Alliance Transforming Race 2012–Visions of Change Conference, Kirwin Institute The 9th Annual Harm Reduction Conference InternationalHealth Gap, NYC, Asia, Africa
Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Summit Kuala Lampur, Malaysia Social Entrepreneur Bootcamp, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ottawa, Canada Global Action for Trans Equity AID FOR AIDS INTERNATIONAL – ¿Cuánto sabes de VIH y SIDA?, NYC and Caracas, Venezuela Centennial Ecumenical Gathering, National Council of the Churches and Church World Service, New Orleans |