Our Story: Making Justice Operational

We are Studio Uprise, a collective of seasoned strategy and policy experts, coaches, and organizers committed to transforming educational and non-profit institutions from the root up.

For decades, leaders have been asked to lead with vision but are rarely given the strategies, tools, and deeply reflective space needed to operationalize a vision of justice. We exist to close that gap.

We partner with leaders, teams, and institutions to catalyze deep-rooted change, transforming systems through strategy, training, coaching, and consultation grounded in justice.

Our approach is built on three essential pillars:

  • Rooted Justice: We ground your work in ancestral wisdom, accountability, and truth, ensuring change is not temporary or performative.

  • Strategic Transformation: We co-create clear, action-oriented plans that result in real, measurable change in policy, practice, and culture.

  • Collective Liberation: We shift systems by building power through collaboration, reflection, and advocacy, because lasting change is a collective endeavor.

We envision a world where justice is not aspirational but operational: a world made more humane, equitable, and sustainable by how we lead, teach, and care for one another. If you are ready to confront, grieve, learn, and reimagine your institution's impact, we are your partners in the work.

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Our Values in Action

Our compass is justice, and it guides every project, partnership, and policy recommendation. This is how we show up:

  • Accountability: Naming harm, restoring trust, and staying the course.

  • Reflection: Creating space to confront, grieve, learn, and reimagine.

  • Advocacy: Standing unapologetically in the service of justice.

  • Sustainability: Building the people and infrastructure to last.

  • Justice: Our compass, our commitment, our collective inheritance.

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