Yagna (she/her) believes in facilitating change within organizations and institutions to create cultures of learning and reflection, ultimately imagining new ways of being in the world. As a facilitator and evaluator, she enables collaborative learning geared towards self and community transformation. Her strengths lie in leveraging complex theories and concepts to build a better understanding of the difficult issues we face in the world.

She believes that radical and systemic change is possible by harnessing radical imaginations and creativity, paying attention to our curiosities, compassionate engagement with the world, and building communities of solidarity.

Yagna holds a PhD in Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture from Cornell University with a focus on cultural studies and anthropology. She also has a Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and an MPhil in Social Sciences from Center for Studies in Social Sciences, in India. Yagna brings a wealth of experience and knowledge from her work as a social worker, teacher, and researcher as well.

Aja Imani, MPH is a Black Feminist doula, health systems evaluator, and mixed methods researcher interested in supporting projects that change tangibly impact Black women, Black girls, and People of Color's lived experiences. As a practitioner, she strives to better understand how systems, programs, and institutions can best serve the needs of their people.

Hi! I’m Kai (she/they), Learning & Change Strategist, Facilitator, and Coach at Create Knowledge — a practice that operates at the intersection of learning, systems change, and social justice.

As a coach, I help leaders and teams connect to, resource, and lead with their best selves, because I’m passionate about supporting people to show up in life, work, and community in more generative and liberatory ways. As a consultant, I co-design and co-facilitate collaborative learning / evaluation, strategy, and change processes that bring together grassroots, nonprofit, and/or philanthropic stakeholders striving to create a more equitable and just world.

I spent the first decade of my career as a nonprofit leader building deep “subject matter expertise” in community arts and youth development. And the last 10 years of consulting have evolved me into more of a generalist via work across diverse issue areas including educational equity, food justice, people-friendly streets, criminal-legal reform, housing justice, and peer support in behavioral health.

Deeply informed by my own lived experience as a white, now middle class, late-diagnosed AuDHD, bisexual, non-binary woman and parent, the approach