Speakers to address your participants, staff,  Board, team or organization about QTPOC/BIPOC/LGBTQ+ related topics. These topics may include how implicit bias impacts your mission, respectful use of pronouns, LGBTQ+ or Trans Rights/History, Creating Safe Spaces for QTPOC clients/staff/youth/families etc. 

This can be done in person or via zoom. 

Blaque/OUT provides very conversation based workshops and education for Boards, staff, teachers, organizations etc. that center around working through and implementing equity and inclusion in an everyday working environment. This may mean one specific topic or multiple tackled in one session or over time. The facilitator will present content, take questions and provide feedback during these work sessions. This is where you have the opportunity to ask real questions that you may not be able to ask in many other spaces. Sessions can focus on topics such as: Pronoun usage in the workplace, creating safer spaces for Trans staff/students, Implicit Bias and MicroAggressions etc.

Tamara Leigh sits down with Leadership/ Admin/ Board to evaluate existing forms, policies, procedures, marketing material, physical environment etc. with an inclusionary QTPOC/LGBTQ+/BIPOC lens and creates recommendations to assist you in achieving your Equity goals. 

It is imperative and socially responsible to ensure BIPOC, LGBTQ+, QTPOC and specifically Trans voices are at the table when creating plans of any kind that impact the community. Blaque/OUT subcontracts for grants, on community based projects and as subcontractors alongside the primary contractor to offer BIPOC/QTPOC/LGBTQ+ perspective on community facing projects and strategic planning contracts to ensure this portion of the community at-large is heard, represented and reflected within the planning process. 

Blaque/OUT's educational trainings are written as new & relevant content for the specific audience that will be receiving it. 

Blaque/OUT developed & was granted a US Copyright in 2023 for a DEI Guided Self-Reflection Tool that assists organizations and individuals exploring how to be more successful in Community Engagement by realizing the implicit biases that are often unknowingly at in play. 

Tamara Leigh has also consulted in the creation of university curriculum based on the New York Times Magazine, 1619 Project and in the development of LGBTQ+ History curriculum as part of an Anti-Racist Curriculum project for New York State high-school students.  

In 2024, Blaque/OUT Consulting is introducing a new and innovative solution to creating a more diverse and inclusionary culture within non-profit, business, and educational entities- “DEI RESIDENCIES.”

For those invested in truly integrating equity into the fabric of their organization, this opportunity brings our lead consultant, Tamara Leigh, to become a part of your organization for a week, a month, or a quarter to fully immerse herself in the work that you do. Interviews, reviews of staff, board training, equity workshops, crisis management, policy and procedure, all with the goal of revamping your equity quotient with recommendations and guidance. 

What makes this experience even more unique, is with the more intense in-person and concentrated long term interaction, Tamara can also utilize her Public Relations background to direct and assist with the roll-out of your initiative both internally and externally to the community that you serve. 

Strategic Organizational Restructuring. Board Development. Public Relations & Marketing Planning. Rebranding & Marketing Services. Social Media and Media Management