10/25/21
Listening Time:
59 min
Episode 131: Uplifting Communities While Doing Racial Equity Work—with Rumana Rabbani and Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah
How can consultants contribute to community-based work while uplifting the voices of community members and supporting their power?
In this week's episode of the Craft of Consulting Podcast, my guests Rumana Rabbani and Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah share their expertise and knowledge in uplifting the voices of community health workers and community-based organizations through their work on racial equity and violence prevention. They share their approach to engaging with communities and how others can embrace similar approaches.
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Rumana Rabbani and Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah

Episode Details
Rumana Rabbani and Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah are deeply rooted in core values of grassroots community work. In this episode, we talk about:
Working together to lift up community-based organizations (CBOs) and community health workers (CHWs)
Sharing their life experiences that brought them to this work and approach
Taking science and learning how to give it back to communities
Having lived experience with inequities that drive their work
Having equitable systems and practices in place that lift up the voices of CBOs and CHWs
Recognizing and supporting community-based organizations who are doing the work
Being centered and grounded in core values of humanity, racial justice, social justice, empathy, and authenticity
Doing the proper assessment of the landscape that you're stepping into and being equitable in how you share your resources
Not using practices that have already oppressed communities and they still have the trauma from
Lifting up CBOs, CHWs, and marginalized communities in evaluations
Convincing funders with good intentions to change how they do things
Making implementation science work better through a participatory research approach and de-implementing inequitable practices
Giving community members the tools to show that they're naturally implementing all the time
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