Creative Strategies for Equity and Justice

We create change through curiosity, culture, & community

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Thriving Culture

A suite of services to cultivate organizational culture where all members of your team can thrive.

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Racial Equity Strategy

A roadmap to racial equity rooted in best practices and tailored to your organizational goals and culture.

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Embodied Leadership

Training and coaching programs to cultivate those essential capacities necessary to facilitate change.

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Featured Client

 
 

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

We brought our three tiered community engagement strategy to the Sherman Park neighborhood in the summer of 2018 and invited residents to envision ways that the Foundation could invest in their community.

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Piper Anderson, a brown skin Black woman is sitting at a counter looking directly into the camera with one hand under her chin. There's a blue notebook under her right hand on the countertop.

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Piper...is just really a master at facilitating difficult conversations. She’s so patient and such a great listener, but then also can lead the group... She’s very sensitive to making sure that people are being heard when they need to be heard.”

— Sarah Maxfield, ArtsPool Team Leader

 
Testimonials

“I thought that Create Forward did a fantastic job. That Create Forward’s team is always responsive, and has invaluable insight, and delivered a very high quality program that opens parts of minds.”

— Colby Kelly, VP of Social Impact at Public Square Media

“Piper is thoughtful, innovative and a consummate professional. Having partnered with her on numerous projects, I admire her commitment to social justice and her ability to design programs and practices that inspire social change.”

— Marcella Runell Hall, Dean of Students, Mount Holyoke College

“Piper’s session, created the space for us to enter into a productive dialogue about these topics and create a shared language / point of reference for understanding the perspectives of students and staff members. As a department, we moved from silence to collective acknowledgement of recent events, and instances of systemic racial injustice.”

— Tera Nakata, NYU Residence Hall Director & Diversity Programs Coordinator

“Piper Anderson is an excellent facilitator and educator. For 651 ARTS, she co-led a successful inquiry-based program designed to creatively engage new audiences. She was thoughtful, prepared, flexible and strategic in her approach. As a pilot program, her innovativeness , creativity, skills and resources laid the foundation for a process that we will incorporate in future programs.”

— Shay Wafer, Executive Director of 651 Arts