RECENT WRITINGS:

Food For Thought: White Lies & I Apologize

It's Time For White Folks to Dismantle the Master's House

TUNE IN:  EVERYTHING IS WORKABLE PODCAST 
RACIAL EQUITY with S. RAE PEOPLES 

Guiding Communities Into Deeper Connections

Working with you to support your personal and organization's commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion.

THE PROCESS

A Unique Service Anchored
​in Compassion

​Red Lotus Consulting is a race equity and justice service boutique that is all about creating and holding spaces of compassion for organizations. Our work rests upon amplifying and integrating the personal narratives, lived experiences, and truths of every person in a room, and allowing these elements to enhance the richness and effectiveness of an organization.

We take on the challenge of stepping into the often awkward and uncomfortable conversations around race in order for our clients to gain a deeper level of understanding and clarity on the ways in which race impacts our ability to connect to each other. And from this point of understanding and clarity, we then work with our clients to develop an organizational environment that is more inclusive, equitable, and just.

Images taken from April 2019 Disarm, Divest, Dismantle Workshop (Oakland, CA)

ABOUT 

S. Rae Peoples is the founder and principal consultant at Red Lotus Consulting. A dedicated mother, education administrator, and social activist, she enjoys being present in spaces that allow her to offer her personal narratives, experiences, and truths to the richness of community. Her writings and opinions have been published in The Washington Post, the East Bay Express, the Oakland Post, BlogHer, as well as Young, Fabulous, and Self-Employed magazine. She is a founding member of Parents United for Public Schools and serves as Co-chair of the Board of Directors for North Atlantic Books.

Coming from a family legacy of educators, social rabble rousers, and activists, S. Rae’s personal journey is an extension of her proud lineage. She has spent twenty years cultivating diversity, equity, and inclusion within the education, political, and nonprofit sectors.  Her background, along with her skills in building bridges, gives S. Rae a keen contextual lens in the areas of curricula, frameworks, and educational best practices.
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S. Rae currently works and learns alongside Rev. angel Kyodo williams, author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation as Strategic Relationships Coordinator for the Radical Dharma Movement Project. A native of California with a Midwest upbringing, she is rooted in motherhood and community in Oakland, CA.

SERVICES

The Path: Conversations for Racial Transformation

The Path holds space for those who are grappling with a gut wrenching feeling that race-based aggressions directed towards impacted communities is an attack to their own community and humanity. Participants are invited into a space where they are guided on a path of personal reflection and action.

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Rooting In & Raising Up: Cultivating Race Consciousness in Our Children

The workshop serves as an invitation for participants to embrace the truth of our mutual liberation by developing their own capacities to have more meaningful and truthful conversations about race and racism first with themselves- and from there, with the children and young people in their lives.
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Transformation From The Margins Out 

Transformation From The Margins Out allows for an internal assessment of a specific DEI related program, initiative, or service in your community. Centering the experiences and wisdom of an organization's most impacted members, this short-term contract utilizes qualitative research (exceptional writing, listening, and interviewing ability), and includes 70 – 80 hours dedicated to identifying key insights, lessons, and recommendations from a series of debrief sessions within the timeframe of the STC.

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Queering The Art Of Leadership ​

Queering the Art of Leadership provides a container for truthful and interactive conversations to emerge. Participants self-select specific aspects of leadership (i.e. communication, position, or even the very definition of leadership) that the group will focus on throughout the workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to invoke a collaborative and creative process of redefining and reshaping the art of leadership in such a manner that it truly becomes queer: where it becomes that which does not reproduce the status quo of white supremacy.

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LET'S CONNECT

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