CREATIVE OFFERINGS                                                                       

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Kellie is available to design and facilitate courses, workshops, or lectures for diverse audiences at all levels. Her offerings vary from poetr to collage to healing circles. Her work is engaging, inclusive and joyful, with an eye for expanding consciousness, building skill and craft, as well as always providing practical tools for continued learning. 

 

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING                                                                                                  

Kellie is a powerful facilitator, coach, and trainer. She has experience across multiple sectors, and centers her work on truth telling, accountability, and self-awareness as the critical pathway to effective leadership. As a former nonprofit executive, she applies her learnings and experiences as a Black woman leader in liberal white spaces. 

She is an expert at convening and holding liberatory spaces for seekers of self-reflection, truth, and purpose. She starts from a bedrock of radical possibility, joy, and compassion. Her leadership offerings are both creative and accessible, dismantling imposter complexes that stifle vision and confidence. Popular offerings include:

• Building Cultures of Belonging

• Moving from Commitments to Accountability

• Leading and Managing Across Difference

• Resilience and Well-Being

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KEYNOTE REMARKS                                                                                                             

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Kellie will craft inspirational and engaging remarks tailored to the focus or theme of your event. She has provided keynotes for annual fundraising events, award celebrations, and galas. Keynotes can be a mix of remarks and/or poetic or live artistic elements.

 

PERFORMANCES AND MEDIA

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Dive In Justice Podcast: Kellie joins Delma and Shadiin to talk about surviving cancer, making a living, living life, and what it means to tell her story in predominantly white institutions and spaces in everything from health care, to art.

 

State of the City, Remember: Kellie wrote and recorded her poem Remember to accompany the video featured during Mayor Victoria Woodard's 2019 State of the City.

 

TEDx Talk, Why Healing Hurts: Kellie shares two spoken word pieces, "My Vagina Ain't No Cemetery," and "Reparations," as she discusses the desire, necessity, and pain of healing.

 

Prickly Pear Podcast: In this episode, Kellie talks about her artistry and explains the importance of bringing your true self to the stage. And yeah, we gripe about changing neighborhoods and community dynamics in Tacoma.

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Profoundly Ignorant Podcast: Chris Blount and Kellie talk poetry, creativity, and sacred sarcasm.

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