EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Cedar is a Relational Organizational Gestalt Practitioner and a heart-centered teacher, organizer, facilitator, and coach who has worked in social change for nearly 25 years. Cedar’s extensive experience in community organizing, food policy, youth development, coaching and consulting formed her approach to relational culture building. Before she co-founded Relational Uprising, she served as Development Director at the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Director of Outreach and Development at The Relational Center.

PROGRAMS DIRECTOR

Lucién is a Gestalt and Somatics based teacher, coach and consultant who has worked in the fields of personal transformation and social change for over 25 years in the US and internationally. As a coach, he specializes in relational leadership development and embodied change. Lucién is a Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (GPCC), a Relational Gestalt Practitioner in Community Engagement & Leadership, and is trained in various coaching modalities including the Power of Embodied Transformation, and the Art of Transformational Consulting.

FACULTY CHAIR

Mark Fairfield, LCSW (Principal, Fairfield & Associates), is an Organizational Consultant & Leadership Coach. Currently, Mark’s work focuses on bringing relational culture practices to change-making institutions devoted to protecting civil and human rights and fighting for climate justice. Mark is typically called into situations where there are challenges in teams and between managers and their direct reports. He frequently works in the Equity & Belonging space, collaborating with other consultants to integrate relational culture as a foundational support for all equity work.

BOARD MEMBER

Jamie is Head of Operations at Turning Tides Facility, an international giving facility dedicated to supporting the tenure and rights of local communities, small-scale fishers, fish workers, and Indigenous Peoples. She previously worked as a Program Operations Manager at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She has a MS in Organizational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, specializing in psychological safety in inter-organizational relationships between grantmakers and grantseekers.

BOARD MEMBER

Romy is Executive Director of Academic Technology & Innovation at Boston University. She plays a pivotal role in transforming classrooms and teaching approaches at BU, and launched several long-standing innovation grant initiatives. Romy holds an M.Ed degree in human development and psychology (Harvard GSE); and MA in humanities and leadership (New College of California). Throughout her career, Romy’s work and research have focused on the sociology of education, universal design for learning, and 20th-century social movements.

BOARD MEMBER

Bob Kolodny, Ph.D. is an organization development consultant working with a wide array of human systems in the public, non-profit/voluntary and business worlds. His work is guided by two visions: the building of more satisfying and inclusive workplace communities and the creation of more just and democratic ways of governing in the public realm. He currently devotes the bulk of his time to large-scale social movements directly addressing the climate and ecological crisis.