Research and consulting

Professional Services

Research & Grant Consulting for Child Welfare and Community Organizations

I work with organizations, researchers, and institutions who want to do more than check a box when it comes to lived experience. My consulting focuses on research and funding strategies that center youth voices, especially those impacted by foster care and complex systems.

I support organizations, researchers, and community-based programs that want to strengthen their research, funding strategy, and impact, especially when working with youth, foster care, lived experience, and complex systems.

Research Consulting

I support research projects that center lived experience, youth voice, and community knowledge, not just as data, but as expertise.

  • Participatory Action Research support
  • Qualitative and mixed-methods consulting
  • Youth voice and lived experience integration
  • Child welfare, foster youth, and systems-focused research
Grant Consulting

I help organizations strengthen grant proposals by connecting program goals, community needs, research, and funder priorities.

  • Grant narrative development
  • Program framing and impact language
  • Needs statements and population-specific language
  • Reviewing and strengthening applications
Research support

Research

I have extensive experience conducting research in collaboration with professors, graduate students, and administrators across the nation. My research expertise encompasses a wide range of areas, including foster youth, immigrants, incarcerated youth, linguistics, mental health, Latin America, LGBTQ youth, and anti-racist practices and principles within institutions. Additionally, I have served as a community advisor to graduate students and have played a pivotal role in data collection and research. My consulting services bring insight and expertise to mental health counselors working with diverse populations, including foster youth, incarcerated individuals, and immigrants. My extensive lived experience, professional background, and educational training equip me to offer insights that enhance the support provided to these communities. I deliver research and consulting services to professionals across various fields who serve marginalized groups.

Who I work with

Who I Work With

  • Nonprofit organizations
    Programs focused on youth, child welfare, education, and community-based services.
  • Schools and school districts
    Teams working to better understand student behavior, engagement, and support systems.
  • Community-based organizations
    Groups seeking to strengthen their research, programming, or funding strategies.
  • Researchers and academic teams
    Projects looking to meaningfully integrate lived experience and youth voice into their work.
  • Foundations and grant-funded programs
    Initiatives that want to align funding, research, and real-world impact more effectively.
Research and consulting

Why Work With Me

  • Lived experience + professional training
    I bring both academic research and lived experience in foster care, offering insight that goes beyond theory.
  • Bridging research and real-world impact
    I help translate research, data, and lived experience into work that is meaningful, ethical, and actionable.
  • Experience with youth and complex systems
    My work is grounded in understanding child welfare, education systems, and the realities youth navigate.
  • Not just compliance but intentional work
    I support organizations in moving beyond "checking a box" toward work that genuinely centers youth voice.
  • Clear, direct, and practical approach
    I do not overcomplicate things. I focus on clarity, strategy, and helping you move your work forward.
  • Aligned with community-based and equity-focused work
    I work best with organizations committed to ethical engagement and meaningful change.
Research and consulting

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