Cultural Strategy Portfolio
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Cultural Strategy Portfolio
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past clients
Client Feedback
"The Moving Forward Network (MFN) is a national network of over 50 member organizations that centers grassroots, frontline-community knowledge, expertise and engagement from communities across the US that bear the negative impacts of the global freight transportation system. Every year we come together from across the country for our Annual Convening. This year, travel restrictions because of Covid-19 meant that we were going to have to move our in-person convening to a virtual one. Felicia Perez provided the much needed support, coordination, and facilitation which made our virtual convening truly memorable and powerful. She brought together the technical needs while lifting up the narrative power of our membership. Felicia continued to support MFN by facilitating member-led skillshares. She worked to coordinate and facilitate these virtual presentations while supporting the outreach. These events were some of our best attended and we have been receiving only positive responses from our members. To see the clip from the convening and the amazing facilitation from Felicia visit: Moving Forward Network Convening Recap "
- Candice Kim, Project Director | Moving Forward Network
"The Institute for Sustainable Communities had the pleasure of working with Felicia to support the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Climate Solutions program, which we serve as the National Program Office for. We were interested in the program grantees receiving an equity-centered narrative communications frame and applying that frame to record the story of their projects in an oral storytelling format. The resulting products were moving, poignant, high quality recorded stories of the work on the ground, told by the grantees. Felicia brought an incredible lens to this work and produced products that exceeded our expectations. The grantees had the opportunity to listen to each other's stories and it created a point of connection and unity to this program and commitment to further this work. Thank you!"
-- Sonia Joshi, Associate Director, U.S. Programs | Institute for Sustainable Communities
"At Hand in Hand, we hired Felicia to co-facilitate and develop the curriculum for a storytelling training for organizers and activists. Felicia brought extraordinary skill, creativity, humor, kindness, and consistency to our work together. Working on a tight deadline, she crafted a creative and engaging training tailored to our needs and vision, and tackled the challenge of developing a curriculum accessible to a very diverse set of participants. The training was a huge success, and participant feedback highlighted the impact of Felicia's fabulous, fun, and vulnerable facilitation. One participant, a community organizer with decades of experience, shared that they had been to countless trainings, but this one stood out as having some of the best and most visionary facilitation and instruction. I agree! We were unbelievably lucky to get to work with Felicia on this project and I'm excited to find opportunities to continue to work with her in the future."
-- Kayla Shore, Southern California Research Manager & Organizer | Hand in Hand: The Network for Domestic Employers
“Felicia Perez was hired to assist the City of Reno on supporting our nonprofit arts groups through our new diversity, equity and inclusion grants. We worked with Felicia to put together a cohort of nonprofit leaders and worked for a year with them to put together actionable goals and outcomes. Felicia did a wonderful job of giving the leaders constructive input, a safe space to learn and speak, and a beautiful way to work towards making their organizations more inclusive. I think that Felicia is an incredible facilitator and really helps participants understand their own motivations, empathize with others who aren’t like them, and is very organized to achieve actual outcomes. She would be incredible in any setting where you want to get results.”
-- Alexis Hill, Washoe County Commissioner
- Candice Kim, Project Director | Moving Forward Network
"The Institute for Sustainable Communities had the pleasure of working with Felicia to support the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Climate Solutions program, which we serve as the National Program Office for. We were interested in the program grantees receiving an equity-centered narrative communications frame and applying that frame to record the story of their projects in an oral storytelling format. The resulting products were moving, poignant, high quality recorded stories of the work on the ground, told by the grantees. Felicia brought an incredible lens to this work and produced products that exceeded our expectations. The grantees had the opportunity to listen to each other's stories and it created a point of connection and unity to this program and commitment to further this work. Thank you!"
-- Sonia Joshi, Associate Director, U.S. Programs | Institute for Sustainable Communities
"At Hand in Hand, we hired Felicia to co-facilitate and develop the curriculum for a storytelling training for organizers and activists. Felicia brought extraordinary skill, creativity, humor, kindness, and consistency to our work together. Working on a tight deadline, she crafted a creative and engaging training tailored to our needs and vision, and tackled the challenge of developing a curriculum accessible to a very diverse set of participants. The training was a huge success, and participant feedback highlighted the impact of Felicia's fabulous, fun, and vulnerable facilitation. One participant, a community organizer with decades of experience, shared that they had been to countless trainings, but this one stood out as having some of the best and most visionary facilitation and instruction. I agree! We were unbelievably lucky to get to work with Felicia on this project and I'm excited to find opportunities to continue to work with her in the future."
-- Kayla Shore, Southern California Research Manager & Organizer | Hand in Hand: The Network for Domestic Employers
“Felicia Perez was hired to assist the City of Reno on supporting our nonprofit arts groups through our new diversity, equity and inclusion grants. We worked with Felicia to put together a cohort of nonprofit leaders and worked for a year with them to put together actionable goals and outcomes. Felicia did a wonderful job of giving the leaders constructive input, a safe space to learn and speak, and a beautiful way to work towards making their organizations more inclusive. I think that Felicia is an incredible facilitator and really helps participants understand their own motivations, empathize with others who aren’t like them, and is very organized to achieve actual outcomes. She would be incredible in any setting where you want to get results.”
-- Alexis Hill, Washoe County Commissioner
"Felicia is a great facilitator. Her approach is very experiential and practical--it's not bogged down in the theoretical which means that real action takes place. She engaged our arts & culture organizations in DEI work in a way that made it accessible to what they are doing and gave them real tools to move forward. Felicia doesn't sugar coat and she is willing to get down into the tough conversations. She is adept at framing things in a way that breaks down the resistance and opens a path for understanding. We saw some of our organizations really crack open, get vulnerable, and respond to the work in a meaningful way. The majority of our group reported back that they have plans in place to continue the conversations internally and have already begun to restructure their organization to be more inclusive and equitable."
-- Megan Berner, Acting Manager of Arts, Culture, and Events | City of Reno
"I've had the pleasure of hosting Felicia as a keynote speaker on multiple occasions at the Wildwood Outreach Center's Systems Thinking Workshop 101 in Los Angeles. She has always tailored her message and presentation to fit the needs of our elementary school teacher audience. Our workshop participants have consistently described their time with Felicia as amazing and it inspires them to affect positive change in the lives of the children they work with. She exudes passion, purpose, and a sense of hope for our participants' work with elementary age students."
-- Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach | Wildwood Outreach Center
-- Megan Berner, Acting Manager of Arts, Culture, and Events | City of Reno
"I've had the pleasure of hosting Felicia as a keynote speaker on multiple occasions at the Wildwood Outreach Center's Systems Thinking Workshop 101 in Los Angeles. She has always tailored her message and presentation to fit the needs of our elementary school teacher audience. Our workshop participants have consistently described their time with Felicia as amazing and it inspires them to affect positive change in the lives of the children they work with. She exudes passion, purpose, and a sense of hope for our participants' work with elementary age students."
-- Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach | Wildwood Outreach Center