About Us
Healing Equity United’s Co-Founders, Fiona Oliphant & Jess Ayden Li.
Healing Equity United is a Black and Asian women-owned collaborative co-founded by the organization’s two principal consultants (Fiona Oliphant and Jess Ayden Li) who have over 35+ years of experience working in the field of gender-based violence.
Over that span of time, it was evident that race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, ability, and IDENTITY significantly impacted both access to services and service provision. Additionally, trauma framed every aspect of the work making the need for radical healing evident. We know that these truths are not limited to the gender-based violence movement. Rather, they permeate every component of our work, lives, and interactions.
Healing Equity United was created not only to reimagine an equitable society, but
to spur each and every one of us to be agents of change in creating the world that we imagine.
Our Core Values
Transparency
We are open and honest in our communication and the intentions behind our work together.
Commitment
We are with you physically and emotionally as you go through the process of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging - through the good and hard times.
Radical Healing
We believe that radical healing is critical to the betterment of both the individual and the organization’s journeys.
Equity
We believe in constantly and consistently acknowledging our power and privilege and what we can do to recognize and redistribute that power.
Shared (Collaborative) Leadership
We believe that everyone has a role to play in creating diversity, equity, inclusion,
and belonging. We work together through a collaborative model
and share power to end systems of oppression.