Equitable Communications is a daily practice and exercise – it’s also our strategic specialty. It is about more than the words, images, and sources you choose to tell a story, though they really do matter. It’s about fostering fairness and inclusivity, ensuring we’re accurately reflecting and framing the aspirations, lived experiences, agency and reality of those you work with, alongside and serve – your relations – in all we communicate explicitly by applying a racial justice + equity lens. Our equitable communications work focuses on strategically communicating organizational and issue-area objectives to a variety of people.

Services include:

• Equitable Communications Content Review

• Recommendations for Language Access and Justice

• Equitable Partnerships Outreach and Facilitation

• Equitable Policy Programs Analysis, Development, and Recommendations

• Organizational DEI Analysis & Guidance Support

• Meeting Facilitation

• DEI & Environmental Justice Trainings

• Equitable Communications & Language Access Trainings

We offer in-house English to Spanish or Spanish to English translation with content areas of specialty for translation including ocean and climate sciences, conservation, civil rights and social justice. Often, these translations are used for video captions, press releases, storytelling, website features, media relations, trainings and even curriculum design.

By incorporating cultural nuances into our non-literal translation and our three-step quality control, our translations reflect the expertise of native Spanish speakers.

Our translation offerings, include:

• English-to-Spanish

• Spanish-to-English

Our team of media relations specialists, expert content creators and editors, guided by equitable communications and asset-framing specialist, Betsy López-Wagner, can support the development of press releases, statements, media advisories, event email communications, blogs, op-eds, messaging, talking points, website copy and related content to ensure language is engaging as well as inclusive and reflective of the communities and interestholders represented.

We can support active reporter relationship development, press and editorial board outreach and provide weekly media monitoring reports attained through social listening. We can also monitor for breaking news and provide rapid response support for digital and traditional press. While we cannot guarantee placement, we can pitch mainstream, bilingual and strategic media outlets and podcasts.

Services include:

• Media Relations (English & Spanish)

• Media Campaign & Advertising Buys

• Media Spokesperson Training

• Digital Content Creation & Management

• Storytelling

Mutuality, collaborative planning and accountability are the first steps in an equitable partnership approach.

Services include:

• Partnership Development

• Coalition Building

• Donor Engagement

• Organizational Culture Change

Your innovative ideas and experience can be a model for others in social good fields. Our team’s thought leadership services can help you own your expertise and deliver your key messages as an effective ambassador.

Services include:

• Effective Spokesperson Training

• Executive Leadership Planning + Coaching

• Voice + Social Media Profile Building

• Opinion Editorial Writing

• Digital Content Creation

Compelling creative content is the perfect pairing to a solid equitable communications strategy. Let’s create, refine and deploy targeted messaging to captivate your key audiences. From organizational branding content to press releases and newsletters to event email communications, blogs and op-eds, website and riveting social media copy, we can tackle the content creation to ensure drafting and advancing this aspect of the work isn’t getting in the way of you reaching your audience.

Services include:

• Message development

• Storytelling

• Speechwriting

Our team has actively worked to design, and guide equity-forward grant programs to advance grantmaking and grant program design with a diversity, equity, and inclusion and racial justice lens. Wondering how your organization’s funding strategies can advance and promote justice? Let’s talk!

Services include:

• Funder and donor engagement

• Inclusive field grant design pilots + programs

We will be your utility player. Whether you are looking to build an intersectional community online or offline, the communications you create and send, and the stories you share will be essential to your digital and feet-on-the-street organizing efforts.

Services include:

• Online Petitions

• Cause Marketing + Emails

• SMS campaigns

• Community Organizing Strategies

• Campaigns

Are you looking to inspire and captivate an audience? If so, consider Betsy López-Wagner as your next speaker.

For more information on booking Betsy, her availability, speech topics and speaker fees, please fill out the contact form.

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