Proud Partners
Our partners are people and organizations we are proud to refer to and people we learn with. Community is important and with the work we do it’s essential to have a support system. Here are some partners whose work we love and uniquely compliments our own!
Haleigh Harrold She/her 10+ years partnering with communities to increase safety. The SAFE Bar Network partners with bars and other alcohol-serving venues to increase safety. We engage employees in conversations about noticing concerning behavior, interrupting effectively, and offering support. We help teams create a workplace culture focused on giving everyone a safe night out.
Emma Kaywin (they/them/theirs) is a sexual health educator, consultant, writer, and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. They are the Consent Co-Director at House of Yes (NYC) and co-lead the Safer Spaces team at Meso Creso (DC). They consult for a number of nightlife communities and radical arts organizations across the East Coast, where they develop trauma-informed policies and procedures and train staff. They further deliver tailored workshops and trainings on topics of consent, trauma, and sexuality to party collectives and young scientist groups internationally.
Emma received a Master’s of Arts in health education from Teachers College, Columbia University and holds a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the Teachers College Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. They are currently working towards a doctorate in health education (EdD) at Teachers College, where they are researching what supports queer and gender-diverse individuals in feeling sexually safer in nightlife spaces.
Emma offers workshops, training, community consultation, and mediation to communities and companies all across the east coast and country.
The SOAR Collective aims to mobilize advocates to demand accountability and revolutionize the way anti-violence organizations operate. Using an anti-oppression and anti-racism lens, we work to support victim service advocates while reimagining the movement.
We are three young-ish women (Black, white, and multi-racial Latina) and anti-violence advocates who are ready for change, ready for a revolution, and ready to hold our organizations accountable. For the past five years or so, we have worked with advocates, prevention educators, leadership, and other staff at local sexual and domestic violence agencies. We continue to hear about the pain, disappointment, frustration, and discrimination staff experience on a daily basis–and we can relate because we’ve experienced it ourselves, too.
Instagram & TikTok: @thesoarcollective Twitter: @soarcollective
Collectively, we support the organizational accountability revolution. To make this a reality, we offer consulting and training for anti-violence organizations, and support for advocates via a free group chat, opportunites to share their stories with us, referrals and resources. Contact us at collectivelysoaring@gmail.com to get in touch.
Dialogue Skills Initiative
Founder- Alexa St. Martin, LCSW (She/Her/Hers)
Alexa St. Martin, MSW is an advanced dialogue facilitator with 10 years of experience helping individuals, teams, and communities manage safe, meaningful conversations about difficult topics. She was trained in dialogue facilitation by the World in Conversation Center for Public
Diplomacy in 2013 before continuing to obtain her Bachelor’s Degree in Rehabilitation and Human Services and a Master of Social Work Degree. She first developed the training curriculum “The Art of Facilitation” in 2017 inspired by her passion for compassionate communication and informed by her diverse experiences as a dialogue facilitator, clinical therapist, and social justice advocate. She has since trained over 500 facilitators across professional disciplines, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and community groups.
Difficult conversations are an inevitable and critical part of every healthy workplace,organization, and community. These difficult conversations have the power to lead to meaningful, long-lasting outcomes when we are both prepared and willing to lean into them safely. “The Art of Facilitation” facilitator training combines tactics of conflict resolution, mediation, trauma-informed care, and therapeutic group management skills to prepare participants to lead conscious dialogues that cultivate impactful individual, organizational, or community change.