Jax Gil
Providence, RI | write.jaxgil@gmail[dotcom]
Summary
Jax is a transdisciplinary and anti-oppressive facilitator and consultant whose work has focused on transformative organizational and community development, grassroots-led grant-making, solidarity economy building and cultural strategy.
Education
Emerson College, Digital Marketing and Web Analytics, Fall 2019
Wellesley College, Latinx and Chicanx Theater and Performance, Spring 2018
Brandeis University, Bachelors in Peace and Justice Studies with a minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation, 2010-2014
Cohort-based experiential learning:
Open Masters’ Alt*Div, Firebird cohort 2017-2018
Liberation School, Founding cohort, 2017-2018
Betty’s Daughters Arts Collaborative, Womanist Performance Intensive, Summer 2016
Work Experience
Jax Gil Consulting, 2019-present
Arts Connect International, Co-director of Strategic Development 2023-2024
Latino Policy Institute, Strategic Programs Manager, 2022-2023
The City of Providence, Mayor’s Office, 2021-2022
Infinite Growth, Launch Team Editor and Producer, Spring 2020
HowlRound Theatre Commons, Communications Manager, Arts + Culture Commons Working Group, 2019-2020
Resist, Co-director, 2015-2019
New Economy Coalition, Commonbound Conference Arts+Culture Team, 2014
Trainings
Trauma and the Internal Family Systems Model: Releasing Personal and Legacy Burdens, Dick Shwartz, PhD, 2020
MG’s Course Correction: Just Transition In The Age Of COVID-19, Movement Generation, 2020
Power of Online Spaces, People’s Hub, 2020
Virtual Facilitation Skill Share, David Jenkins, Joanna Gattuso, and Sol Gonzalez, 2020
People of Color Meditation Retreat, Insight Meditation Society, Summer 2019
Evolutionary Leadership Workshop Graduate Program, Gibran Rivera, Summer 2018
Emergent Facilitation, adrienne maree brown, 2018
Evolutionary Leadership Workshop, Gibran Rivera, Summer 2017
Community Investing for Social Change, Massachusetts Solidarity Economy Initiative, 2017
Cultural Organizing for Community Change, Arts and Democracy, 2016
Talks and Presentations
“Can the Revolution be Funded?” - Allied Media Conference, 2016
Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Minor Commencement Speaker, Brandeis University, 2014
Opening Talk for Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein at the Orpheum Theater - Do the Math Tour, 350.org, 2012
Publications
The Promise of the Commons, HowlRound Theatre Commons, 2019
A Practice in Emergence: Creating Resist’s New Theory of Change, Strategic Priorities, and Culture of Care, Resist, 2018
Volunteer Work
Arts and Culture Team, Boston Ujima Project, 2017-2019
Safety Team, Allied Media Conference, 2016
Team Member, Intelligent Mischief, 2014-2016
Climate Justice Organizer, Students for a Just and Stable Future, 2013-2014
Founding Member, Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign at Brandeis University, 2013-2014
Community Organizing for Public Utilities Intern, George Wiley Center, Summer 2012
Languages
English, Spanish
Skills
Facilitation, group process design, organizational and community development, project coordination, creative and theatrical pedagogy, web analytics, digital marketing, copywriting and editing, editorial production, photography, video live-streaming, grant-writing, fundraising
Certifications and Awards
Google Analytics Academy - Fall 2019
Personal Projects
Body as Power, 2019-present
Liberatory Theatre Project, 2017-present
Travel
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada