Partners & Networks
Change Elemental
Change Elemental envision a world where the planet and all who inhabit it experience love, dignity, and justice, and where resources and power are shared in ways that provide everyone the opportunity to realize their potential, live life fully, and contribute to the well-being of people and planet.
Visualizing Change
Visualizing Change helps tackle pervasive social issues by facilitating environments that enable changemakers to visualize innovative solutions to problems and experiment with doable actions with enduring results..
Leadership Learning Community (LLC)
Leadership Learning Community is a national nonprofit organization transforming the way leadership development work is understood, practiced and promoted, primarily within the nonprofit sector.
The Equity Collective
The Equity Collective is a non-hierarchical collaboration, embodying honesty and non-violence to support the thorough investigation of social inequity and systems of oppression. Through collaboration across discipline, partners commit to the dismantling of inequitable social structures and the creation of a society that practices radical inclusion.
Susan Ghanbarpour
Susan Ghanbarpour (Dr.PH, MA; she/her) is a researcher and evaluator who collaborates with advocates and community members to surface, support, and center the knowledge and strengths of marginalized communities. She applies her expertise in culturally-responsive evaluation, qualitative research methodologies, and participatory approaches in both local and national contexts, and is co-author of the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Toolkit for Domestic Violence Researchers. Her skills include strengths-based capacity building; centering language justice in multilingual spaces; and attending to issues of historical and current trauma and oppression via equity-focused and trauma-informed research practices. Dr. Ghanbarpour received her DrPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, MA in Health Policy from New York University, and BA in Chemistry from Cornell University. Her approach to her work is grounded in her experience as a mixed race woman of color from the Bronx.