Consulting to Shift Power in the United States.

Shifting power in the United States through strategic consulting, legal services, and education.

Whit Washington, Esq. consults with organizations and individuals dedicated to shifting power in the United States. Whit provides project management, fundraising portfolio development, guest lectures, article writing, and legal services.

Whether you’re an individual who needs advocacy support or an educator who wants their students to learn more about the U.S. criminal legal system, Whit can address your needs. Whit brings extensive experience, knowledge, and professionalism to every contract.

Consulting Services

Program Development & Project Management

Whit has experience developing programs and managing projects for nonprofit organizations. Whit uses their education in the impacts of colonization and white supremacy in the United States to inform program development and project management to ensure equity throughout nonprofits.

Nonprofit Fundraising & Development

Whit’s experience in philanthropy has provided them with a perspective on how to support smaller organizations to prepare themselves for larger foundation grant requirements. Whit can help organizations identify funders and prepare packages that are specially tailored for each specific funder.

Equitable Philanthropic Strategy

Whit’s background in philanthropy has provided them with the skills to build a grantmaking portfolio strategy. Whit uses an intersectional lens to evaluate an issue area, identify stakeholders, and build a strategy that works toward a liberated future.

Guest Lecturing & Writing

Whit’s academic inquiry has resulted in several presentations that can be adjusted for a community, high school, undergraduate, law student, or attorney audience. Topics include:

  • The History of Criminal Law and the Criminalization of Racial and Gender Minorities in the United States;

  • The Impact of Discrimination on Transgender People in the United States;

  • Representing Transgender People in the US Prison System;

  • The Socio-Historical Purpose of Prisons in US history;

  • Decolonizing Philanthropy; and

  • The Case for Abolition and How to Make it Happen

Legal Services Organizations

Whit has experience supporting legal services organizations to:

  • Manage a prison letter program;

  • Develop a program and project materials for a law clerk program;

  • Develop a program and project materials for pro bono attorneys;

  • Develop advocacy tools for community clients;

  • Develop resources for community members; and

  • Conduct an equity audit of a legal department.

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“True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.”

– Pauli Murray, Civil Rights Leader