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Kelly McGowan

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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 founding member of What's Next Now, a collaboration of equity consultants dedicated to building individual and collective capacity to have impactful conversations about race in equity and justice work, and a facilitator with Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.  

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). I 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 have been a student and steward of emergence facilitation with the international Art of Hosting/Participatory Leadership learning community.

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.

Regional

Narrowing the Front Door to NYC's Child Welfare System, NYC
AHRCNY, 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

National 

​Harm Reduction Coalition
InterAct
SEIU
HIV Prevention Justice Alliance
Transforming Race 2012–Visions of Change Conference, Kirwin Institute
The 9th Annual Harm Reduction Conference

International

Health 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
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