A selection of engagements where we helped organizations translate lived experience into policy, digital access into career opportunity, and complex systems into language people can act on.
Policy work has a translation problem. On one side: legislators disconnected from lived reality. On the other: community leaders who are burned out and rarely heard. I designed and facilitated the cross-sector workshops that brought block club leaders and state lawmakers into the same room — and built the trust infrastructure that made real conversation possible.
Most digital literacy programs treat access as the finish line. I built something different: a bridge model that connected where people actually were to where technology could take them — with trust, community, and a clear pathway forward. One participant came to class right after being jumped. He still came. He went on to pitch a startup to funders.
Developers at ThoughtWorks had coaches, mentors, and documentation. Quality Analysts had almost nothing. She built the knowledge infrastructure herself — then turned it into a shared resource that changed how QAs were supported and paid across the organization. As a Senior QA, she was brought in to untangle a three-team conflict at a Fortune 500 client during a company reorg, and pivoted from teaching methodology to helping teams survive.
Sources May Vary helps mission-driven organizations build the systems, language, and infrastructure to do their most important work.
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