Shivani Mehta Bhatia is the founder and facilitator at Tulsi Strategies (www.tulsi.studio), an equity and justice studio for people at the intersections of privilege and oppression. She writes a weekly newsletter on relational skills for systems change. Shivani is a maker and a mender, a queer disabled brown femme, and an eldest immigrant daughter.Shivani has advised boards of directors, tech startups, small businesses, community organizations, and government agencies on developing and executing equity strategic plans. As an innovation consultant, she spearheaded organizational development and supported clients on large-scale projects across industries, from a $10M public-private partnership to a $1B federal challenge for equitable economic development. Shivani previously led health equity efforts for Colorado’s COVID-19 pandemic response and served as the principal investigator for federally funded maternal mortality prevention efforts. Her work has been nationally recognized for the use of innovative strategies to address the structural and social determinants of health, and she was awarded the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs’ 2020 Emerging MCH Professional Award for Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.Over her career, Shivani has been a crisis counselor for sexual violence survivors, a full-spectrum birth and abortion doula, a trauma-sensitive hatha yoga teacher, a sex educator, and a cognitive neuroscience researcher. She has designed, implemented, and evaluated public health programs in Boston, Denver, New York City, and Mumbai, India.Shivani holds an MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and an AB from Dartmouth College. She loves rose gardens, fragrant cups of chai, and late summer rainstorms.Learn more and connect at www.shivani.co.