ALLIED PATH CONSULTING - Key Persons
Daryn (she/her) coaches consumer-oriented business leaders to clarify professional goals and move past roadblocks preventing success. She is a seasoned diversity and anti-bias practitioner, and had a successful career as a psychotherapist and group facilitator working with large corporations.
Tony (siya/he/his/him) is an educator, community organizer and artivist. He currently teaches ethnic studies at various Bay Area, CA, colleges and is passionate about supporting young people to realize their fullest potential.
Arnita (she/her) is an educator, artist/cultural worker, and attorney with a background in public policy. A certified culturally responsive teaching and learning (CRTL) facilitator, she develops online course content and facilitates training, with a focus on equity-minded inclusive practices.
Edna is an attorney and the dean of student services at West Los Angeles, providing strategic vision, leadership, and planning for ASO, Basic Needs, Child Development Center, DSPS, Health and Mental Center, and LGBTQIA initiatives, as well as campus efforts related to racial equity.
Jackie is an internationally recognized consultant in the area of diversity, inclusion, culturally responsive education, social justice and equity. Among her writings are articles on Latina leadership in higher education, Latina identity, and self-transformation through critical literacy, reflections and actions.
Job Titles:
- Professional Writer / Editor
Jude (she/her) is a professional writer/editor who provides editorial and curriculum development services to APC. Her doctoral work focused on cross-cultural communication, multicultural education, and humanistic psychology.
Julie (she/her) is the department chair of the African American Studies Department at De Anza College, co-creator and program director of the Black Leadership Collective, and co-owner of Allied Path Consulting.
Melanie is a pediatrician by training. Her seminal 1998 article on cultural humility revolutionized how professionals and institutions approach DEI work. She provides consulting services anchored in cultural humility within disciplines spanning health care delivery, public health, education, public service, and advocacy.
Veronica has been working in the field of DEI training and consulting for thirty years. She started as an apprentice at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where after close to ten years of study, she became a diversity specialist with the California Childcare Health Program, working with early childhood educators serving biracial children and interracial families.
During this time, she served as executive director for I-Pride, Inc., the first and longest running organization advocating for and working to support interracial and intercultural families. Her advocacy included working tirelessly on the inclusion of a multiracial option for the census and related documents. She also worked as a curriculum designer, trainer, diversity specialist, and volunteer programs manager for the Shanti HIV/AIDS Peer Education Program.
In 2002, while at Mills College, Veronica (then Veronica Neal) launched her consulting and higher education teaching career, providing training, facilitation, coaching, and consulting for organizations, small groups, and individuals. Her primary focus was on racial identity development, biracial support and awareness, diversity education, and leading for inclusion. She empowered clients by meeting them wherever they were in their personal journey and building on their knowledge, intuition, and felt sense of social injustice. She then expanded to provide support and encouragement for how best to assess opportunities for change, areas of strength, and practices aligned with full-quality living, rooted in equality and equity. She stepped into the shoes of change agent, equity advocate, community educator, counselor, and truthsayer.
Dr. Veronica Keiffer-Lewis (she/her) is an internationally sought-after organizational equity and cultural humility specialist with three decades of experience. She holds certifications as a diversity professional, integral coach, and community and workplace conflict mediator.
Justice (they/them) is an assistant professor of history at Santa Monica College, with over a decade of experience as an educator of race, gender, and ethnic studies. They are adept at facilitating workshops around cultural humility, unconscious bias, intersectionality, somatic writing, and radical self-care.
Justin (he/him) seeks to bring healing practices to organizations so the people who work there can daily experience love, safety, kindness, and belonging, unfettered by bias and prejudice. He is a certified trauma professional.
Ken (he/him/siya/niya) is director of Student Equity and Success at Mission College and part of the West Valley-Mission Community College District. He provides leadership for the institution's equity and antiracism efforts and helps oversee its matriculation services.
Shaila is a culture maker, activist, educator, and leader within the immigrant community. She advocates for equity and access to higher education for marginalized communities and offers political education and artivism to engage undocumented and LGBTQ youth.
Sonya (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, serving families, dependent children, and youth in the child welfare system. She applies her knowledge of organizational leadership, community development, and public sector management to matters of race, equity, and social justice.