Success Stories
These are our clients.
1. The Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501c3 that hosts Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created, edited, and verified by volunteers around the world. With an annual budget of 109 million, the foundation employs over 300 people globally. I worked with the Community Resources/Grantmaking team to develop and facilitate curriculum that would offer Wikimedia staff a shared language for defining and understanding inequity and anti-oppression across lines of race, gender, disability, class, language, and accessibility
As we have gone forward in our work, many of us have referred back to McKensie’s work. It created space for a dialogue that we had at the theoretical level, and brought the conversation to our own lived experience and environment. It was not easy, and it was not always comfortable. But the impact has been significant. “
— Katy Love
2. Howard Brown Health
Howard Brown Health is one of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) organizations. With an annual budget of over $145 million, the agency serves more than 35,000 adults and youth in its diverse health and social service delivery system focused around seven major programmatic divisions: primary medical care, behavioral health, research, HIV/STI prevention, youth services, elder services, and community initiatives. I worked with the Social Services team to develop a shared language and vision for Racial Equity work that centered both race equity and best practices for affirming LGBTQIA+ patients and clients. .
“McKensie is a leader who takes on challenging problems in a direct way and balances an organized results-oriented approach with a nuanced way of working with people. I have been in rooms where I witnessed McKensie changing minds over the course of a brief talk or half-day training. ”
3. Physics Educators for Anti-Racism (P.E.A.R.)
A collaborative representing six higher education institutions came together to develop a racial equity theory of change (RETOC) for their racial equity education initiative with higher ed staff, faculty, and students across higher ed institutions. We led the development of this strategic plan and guided P.E.A.R. through a 6-month collaborative and inclusive process that helped them develop a funding strategy, outreach goals, and an updated mission and vision through a lens of racial equity and social justice.