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Our Team

Our consultants provide expert guidance for complex relationships, fostering empathy, building bridges, and transforming lives.

Our People

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Oblio Stroyman

Founder (he/him, they/them)

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Oblio Stroyman

I am a white, Jewish, queer, transgender parent of an autistic son from a mixed-race family who grew up below the poverty line, causing me to face my own privilege and oppression since I was a small child. I have been designing and delivering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice (DEIBJ) formally since 2006 - before this was what it was called - and less formally I have been working with groups on social justice issues for much longer. The work, how it is offered, and what we call it, continues to evolve and I am a student on this journey as well.I value working with a team and am also strong individually, as I continue to do my own work to incorporate voices that represent perspectives beyond my own into everything that I do.

I am a Licensed Relationship Therapist (LMFT), with an undergrad in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and a Master’s of Education in Relational Therapy.

Click here for a list of organizations I have worked with to support workplace cultural change.

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Cass Averill

Consultant (he/him)

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Cass Averill

Cass is a queer transgender man who was raised in rural Oregon. Advocating for equal rights and equitable outcomes is a survival tool that he has employed since he was a child. Cass is a passionate activist and advocate for inclusion and belonging who works at the local, national, and international levels with corporates and nonprofits in creating cultures of inclusion and belonging that provide institutional support for all people through facilitating difficult conversations, uncovering unconscious bias, and providing practical tools for moving from awareness into action when it comes to conscious inclusion.

Cass brings expertise as well as a deeply personal understanding of this work with him:

  • 15+ years working in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  • 14+ years experience as a Trainer and Educator
  • 15+ years of Public Speaking and Presenting
  • 11+ years leading a service nonprofit dedicated to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
  • A lifetime of speaking up and out for equitable treatment as a marginalized human
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Mo Young

Consultant (she/her)

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Mo Young

Mo is a biracial, fair skinned, Black woman who grew up in Oregon. She is a heart-centered, equity-focused advocate devoted to radically transforming spaces and systems that have historically disenfranchised intentionally marginalized groups.  

In her professional life, Mo works inside of formal systems to transform the nexus of power, uplift, center, and celebrate narratives from folks at the margin.

In her community work, Mo is often raising funds, sharing knowledge and resources, organizing donation drives, and helping people find ways to support one another within the capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal system that we exist in.

In her free time, you can find Mo reading, dancing, traveling, finding hats that her cats will tolerate wearing, and spending as much time with her 14-year-old as she is able and allowed to.

River McKenzie

Consultant (they/them)

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River McKenzie

River McKenzie (they, them), BA, QMHA , CGAC I is a non-binary queer person who works with the 2SLGTBQIA+ community in both their professional and activist spheres. They are the Director of People and Culture  Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC), and former Program Director of the Integrated Co-Occurring Treatment Program at Emergence, serving community members with mental health, substance use, gambling, gaming, and technology concerns. They are the founder of the Transilient program, Lane County’s first culturally specific integrated behavioral health.program for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
 
River has served on the Lane County Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Board, which advises the Lane County Commissioners, and served as Treasurer of the Board of TransPonder for 5 years. TransPonder is a transgender founded and led non-profit. They co-founded the Oregon Country Fair’s first 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Sanctuaries. 
 
River's understanding of anti-oppression, inclusion, and decolonization has been shaped by navigating life in diverse communities—from rural Louisiana and Pennsylvania to inner-city Memphis and Dallas—and operating as a single parent of transgender and neurodivergent children.