Bill (he/him) is founder of Tools for Change, and has been providing consulting, facilitation, mediation and training services for over 25 years. He helps individuals and organizations address issues of power, embrace cultural diversity and tap into intuitive and creative resources.  His approach weaves together deep reflection, sharing stories and heartfelt dialog that inspires generosity of spirit and collective genius.  He helps people develop and implement innovative policies and practices that advance cooperation, creativity, trust, democracy and accountability. People he works with have powerful experiences and, at the same time, they learn valuable skills that help them meet the challenges in their work and community lives.

He has extensive experience in personal and community empowerment, communication skills, diversity issues, leadership development, mediation and facilitation. He frequently works in multi-racial/ multi-cultural teams, with associates diverse in skills,  race, class, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation and physical ability.  His Tools for Change colleagues all have a long history in social change work, anti-racism work, women’s issues, GLBT organizing, environmental, anti-nuclear movements, and fighting the radical right.

Sofia (she/her) is founder of Sofia Olson Coaching, and is an Internal Family Systems practitioner who is passionate about using the power of Internal Family Systems to support people in finding healing and liberation. She has studied Internal Family Systems through the IFS Institute, having completed Levels 1 & 2, as well as acting in the role of a Program Assistant to support others to learn the model. She is currently in the process of working toward certification as an Internal Family Systems practitioner.

She has been married to her wife since 2012 and came into the life of her wife’s children when they were 5 & 8 and experienced the various struggles of step parenting in her family.

In 2014, when her wife was hit by a car and subsequently developed a variety of chronic illnesses that involve a tremendous amount of pain and fatigue, are poorly understood by the medical world, and are profoundly impactful on every day of their lives. As her wife learned the new sets of skills and new worldviews that living with chronic illness required, they grew together in an understanding of ableism and how thoroughly society teaches us that our worth is tied to our productivity and our health.

Like many other white people, Sofia started to come to an understanding of systemic and internalized racism late, as a young adult. She continues to work to grow in this realm by both gaining an ever deepening understanding of racism and uprooting more of the racism that lives within her.

Alden (he/him) is Art & Media Director, and is a designer, photographer and production engineer. He became involved in anti-globalization, anti-war and anti-racism social justice work in the aughts, and is passionate about helping progressives communicate to larger audiences effectively through good design.  He is first generation Filipino, lifelong Seattle resident, and fixie cyclist. He has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. View his portfolio.

Julia (she/her) is an instructor, guide, and landscape gardener who loves people and plants.

She brings her facilitation skills, inquiry, and passion for the collective learning process to Healing White People.  As examples of a little about her style, here’s how Julia got here.

While growing up in Wampanoag territory, she was introduced to what she later learned was social justice when, as a big sister, she noticed that her sweet, brilliant, loving younger brother’s learning and communication styles were ridiculed and given negative grades.

After high school, she came to the realization that she had special access to (privileges) without knowing or earning them, even beyond what was happening with her brother. The question of how people with privilege are able to live with clear advantages and yet have no perception of them has driven her to keep asking compassionate questions since. 

Having lived in Duwamish territory for over a decade, Julia currently lives close to where the Nisqually chief Leschay marched on the Settlers in the mid-1850s.

Julia’s antiracist work has been influenced by constant learning through projects with organizations such as the PNW Social Justice Fund Environmental Justice Project, the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites, and Creative Justice, to name a few. She is passionate about bringing discussions and actions for racial justice to white organizations, including workplaces, volunteer boards, and more. 

For her body to return to computer screens each day, she thrives on or in water, in the mountains, on a bicycle, and especially with people and plants.

Brady (he/him) was introduced to anti-racist community organizing in Seattle in the early 2000s during his participation in social justice organizing. He went on to study Critical Race Theory and Economics at Seattle University and graduated in 2014. Brady is inspired by the writings of James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Cheryl Harris, bell hooks, Derrick Bell, Robin Kelley and Noel Ignatiev.

Brady is a Christian, a poker player, and splits his time between Boston and Seattle.