ABOUT

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I believe we need one another.

And that learning how to be together is the most important task of our time.

I am a facilitator who believes trusting, affirming relationships are key to transformative work.

BIO

Jax Gil (she/they) is a consultant with over a decade of experience supporting grassroots, social justice movements for change through facilitation, nonprofit management, strategy development, culture shift, and community building. Jax also has experience in local government and policy advocacy. She is currently a facilitator and advisor with Resource Organizing Project, an organization focused on building the field of grassroots resource mobilizers in New England.


Before returning to consulting, Jax was a co-director at Arts Connect International, an arts equity organization based in Boston. She was previously the Co-director of Resource Redistribution at Resist, a small Boston-based foundation that funds community organizing groups across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. At Resist, she co-led a shift from board-led grant-making to grantee-led grant-making, empowering groups to deepen both their connections with each other and their understanding of movement funding landscapes.  


Jax has also worked as a communications professional with HowlRound Theater Commons, a digital publication for theater-makers worldwide with a readership of over 40K monthly, and with the City of Providence. Jax has supported the development of the regional social movement landscape through their involvement with local groups employing transformative strategies, like the Boston Ujima Project and Mijente, a political home for Latinx and Chicanx people who seek racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. 


Jax is a proud Colombian-American and speaks both English and Spanish. Jax is based in Rhode Island.

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My Approach

I pull wisdom and forms from: Black, queer, and feminist principles and practices, community and liberation psychology, internal family systems, solidarity economy building, popular education, Theatre of the Oppressed, systems thinking, emergent strategy, social and artistic movements, contemplative practices, cultural organizing, evolutionary leadership, and my lived experience of as a queer human raised by a Latinx, immigrant family. My aim is to design with communities that are committed to a world of dignity and safety for all.

Clear practices, principles, structures, and strategies support good work. Myth and ritual shape our worldview and relationship towards our work. Our level of consciousness determines how fully we can express our liberatory impulse–our impulse to be free and whole, both as individuals and as a member of communities. I love working with other curious souls who are longing to make shifts at the level of culture and consciousness.

My practice has been deeply shaped by:

Currently Influencing my thinking: