Liberation is Possible

Bari Katz is a NYC-based social justice educator and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations, schools and grantmaking institutions across the United States. Bari’s work includes designing and facilitating trainings, writing custom curricula, coaching leadership teams, and supporting organizational development to create spaces and relationships where everyone’s humanity is honored and oppressive systems and dynamics are disrupted. Bari now serves as a consultant working with organizations across the country like DEMOS, ExpandED Schools, City Year, Let’s Get Ready, the Andrus Family Fund, JP Morgan Chase’s The Fellowship Initiative, and Literacy Trust among others, designing curricula and programs, facilitating professional development workshops, and coaching school and program staff to create inclusive spaces and equitable practices.

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Tanya is a Brooklyn, NY based educator and consultant. She believes towards a socially just society can be accomplished through research, effective teaching, direct service, involvement in the community, and a myriad of other routes, but if those ventures are not accomplished in a way that is also socially just – equity driven, community focused, and dialogue centered – the work will be less effective. Tanya has over 30 years of diversity, inclusion, and social justice teaching, programming and facilitation experience inside higher education including professional roles at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and most recently, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. In her six, full-time years as an equity coach and consultant since leaving full time work in the academy, she has continued her facilitative and coaching with colleges and universities, non-profits, and K-12 schools including NYU Stern School of Business, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), American College of Greece, The Moth, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Spence School, Harvard University Law School among other clients.