OUR TEAM

DORA PErry

For over 25 years, Dora has used her experience as a trainer, coach, and facilitator to ensure that relational culture is centered in all areas of her work.  She has facilitated for and trained corporate leaders, law enforcement, community groups, local government, and at several conferences.

Dora trains and guides organizations in using a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) framework to examine and transform their work environments. Her approach ensures that context and perspective-taking are part of any change process.  She believes that examining how history and culture shape our lives and organizational structures plays a key role in a leadership’s ability to create a fair, just and inclusive system in which everyone can thrive.

Dora is an IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) and ICS (Intercultural Conflict Styles) Administrator and is also certified to facilitate Crucial Conversations and Intergroup Dialogues on race/other oppressions.   She has used those skills to successfully address challenges and provide strategic guidance for teams and individuals.  She trains trainers and guides them in the application of different anti-oppressive frameworks such as the Racial Equity Toolkit, Result-Based Accountability, Intersectionality, Equity-centered Leadership, analyzing and disrupting manifestations of racism.  She helps transform organizations using change management, cultural competency, and other equity literacy tools.  Dora uses compassion, empathy, and authenticity to build trust and empower those who have been disenfranchised or who feel unsure about how to engage in Equity and Inclusion efforts.

HOPE ASANA

Hope has over 18 years of experience as a business analyst and 6 years as a DEI Consultant & Educator. She is passionate about fostering collaboration while remaining dedicated to measurable success and equitable outcomes. She believes that real change is possible only when we are committed to self-reflection, hold a deep curiosity about each other, and have an appreciation for the historical and social contexts that shape our communities.

CCS PARTNERS:

Kaycie López Jones

Kaycie López Jones has worked as an intercultural educator for the past 15 years and an equity facilitator for the past 8 years. Her focus has been primarily within the field of education (Early Education, K12 and Higher Ed) and the nonprofit sector. Kaycie is a co-founder of Cultural Coaching Solutions, LLC, a consulting group that focuses on racial equity and intercultural awareness. Recently, Kaycie served as the Co-Executive Director and Director of Internal Equity for Campus Contact of Oregon. In this role, she helped initiate the Racial Equity Roadmap process that worked to institute organizational and board accountability processes and policies.

Additionally, Kaycie is a Qualified Administrator with the Intercultural Development Inventory and a facilitator with Portland Underground Graduate School (PUGS). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Analysis: Human Behavior from Pomona College in Claremont, CA and an inter-collegiate Master of Arts in International Development and Service with focuses in Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Education.

Kaycie strives to impact those around her in ways that inspire reflection, actualization, and collaboration through the facilitation of intercultural dialogue. She desires to engage in critical conversations informed by socio-historical context, as well as participatory storytelling and art-making that centers self-exploration, healing and liberation.  

Dara Snyder

Dara has been working for social justice in different capacities for over fifteen years. Her practice has spanned the country and the globe: she has been living and working for social transformation along the eastern seaboard as well as internationally in Guatemala and India. Dara earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Temple University, and has worked in direct service, community organizing and policy advocacy, as well as directing multiple crisis alleviation services (including emergency food, clothing and housing assistance). Since moving to Portland in 2013, her practice has been squarely focused on community-level practice with groups and organizations with a grounding in Popular Education, Motivational Interviewing techniques, Transformative Facilitation models, and anti-oppressive service delivery. In Portland, Dara has spearheaded several initiatives centering IBPOC including in 2016 co-founding a radical support and healing group for IBPOC womxn and femmes+. Her passion is facilitating intersectional movement-building with a focus on cultural and institutional change through advocacy, community engagement and education.