Michele Kumi (久美) Baer (she/they) is a social justice practitioner, working in modalities of process design, facilitation, education, organizational change, and coaching to advance intersectional anti-oppression work. Michele’s career is focused on igniting, kindling, and sustaining people’s knowledge and capacity to practice equity, justice, and liberation in their lives.Michele is skilled at building and sustaining shared understanding and engaged discussions among diverse stakeholders. With clients and colleagues, they cultivate affirmative learning spaces, promote dialogue and action, propel organizational development, and strategically enable nonprofits, funders, and networks to create and embody more equitable and just practices. They are frequently speaking and facilitating workshops on racial equity and other topics, with much of their work happening within the cultural and philanthropic sectors. Throughout her career, Michele has worked in programming, advocacy, research, capacity building, and communications roles integrating racial justice, gender justice, and disability justice into nonprofit and philanthropic practice. She is an engaged and prolific writer, speaker, panelist, adviser, mentor, educator, and coach.Michele designs and leads her own consulting practice, Kumi Cultural. Learn more: https://www.kumicultural.comKey Strengths: Strategy Development Program Design and DevelopmentResearch and Data AnalysisProject/Program ManagementFacilitationGrantmakingTraining and Leadership Development Capacity BuildingPublic SpeakingCoaching Profile Photo by Shruti Parekh.