Applied Approaches

    • Root cause analysis

    • Political economy analysis

    • Power mapping

    • Following the money

    • Market segmentation

    • Supply chain analysis

    • Long form interviewing

    • Investigative support or research

    • Algorithmic monitoring

    • Collaborative theory of change development

    • Strategy process design & facilitation

    • Equity-centered participatory planning methodologies

    • Spatial planning & design

    • Human-centered design

    • Design and mapping of in/formal feedback loops

    • Collaborative & emergent strategy

    • Stakeholder mapping

    • Influence mapping

    • Integrated data and process visualization

    • Intersection of informal and formal systems

    • Visualizing feedback loops & power relationships

    • Visualizing theories of change

    • Visualizing complex systems & org/community agency within it

    • Mapping financial flows

    • Conflict-of-interest mapping

    • Organizational learning partnerships

    • Collaborative knowledge production

    • Syllabus design for public, popular, or formal higher education

    • Deconstructing complex systems & wicked problems

    • Simulation design and facilitation

    • Design popular, experiential & service learning programs

    • Coaching and training (teams & individuals)

    • Design of structural impact assessment & analysis tools and frameworks

    • Collaborative Theory of Change revision to include structural factors including racism, colonialism, and/or ableism, etc.

    • Regulatory monitoring methodologies

    • Database development and monitoring methodologies

    • Audit & assessment framework design

    • Oral history methodology, ethics, and design trainings

    • Oral history interviewing and archiving

    • Oral history approaches to biography, documentary, history, art, and place-based research

    • Integration of journalistic and oral history methods

  • Organizational & collective strategy

    Lead or contribute to development of strategy, strategic capacity development, or strategic reviews.

  • Collaborative and individual investigations

    Make sense of disparate, messy, or highly opaque intersections through qualitative, empirical, and data-centered investigations.

  • Political economy analysis

    Contribute to, conduct, or train on approaching social, technological, equity, policy or planning issues through a political economy lens.

  • Long form oral history interviewing

    Conduct or organize ethically grounded design, curation, and organization of long form community, narrative, or oral history interviews.

  • Policy, regulatory, and systems analysis

    Provide or contribute to comparative or projected policy impacts or possibilities related to structural change and harm across institutions, time, communities, and resources.

  • Participatory design & planning

    Designing and facilitating planning processes centered by/on participatory, rather than extractive, trajectories.

  • Spatial, visual, and geographic mapping

    Design, conduct, facilitate, or collaborate on qualitative and mixed method research and investigations using a range of digital, spatial, data, and journalistic methods.

  • Institutional ethnogrophy & accountability audits

    Conduct complex multi-dimensional research on how internal culture, decisions, influences, and power dynamics work in large companies, institutions, or organizations.

  • Power & Follow-the-Money Mapping

    Lead research, training, and/or visualizations on connecting the dots between people, institutions, influence, and resource flows.

  • Database & tracker methodology development

    Design visual, methodological, algorithmic, and content-specific templates for complex monitoring, tracking, and searchable data on specific issues.

  • Civil society-academic collaboration & coordination

    Design & facilitate outreach, methodology, and strategic engagement for research or campaigns rooted in partnerships across movements, civil society and NGOs, and scholars.

  • Research & interviewing for public history, memory, art and film projects

    Coordinate and conduct issue- or communty-specific research and interviews as part of community documentation, archival, film, or project development.

  • Pedagogy, education, and training design

    Curricula design, training, or facilitation using popular, experiential, and academic educational styles for movements, teams, and students.

  • Simulation development & scenario-based planning

    Design, develop, and facilitate complex simulations enabling different groups and communities to map power, resource, and circumstances for more robust and informed decision-making in real-time.

  • Case study research and production

    Development of case studies for public research and internal strategy.