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The Grace in Growth supports leaders, teams, and communities navigating change, burnout, conflict, and transformation through executive coaching, strategic planning, restorative practice, facilitation, and liberatory leadership development. https://www.thegraceingrowth.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-16 https://www.thegraceingrowth.com/about daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1609975567156-BSKCBBGZ80545Z6AZQZK/IMG_2852.JPG The Grace in Growth https://www.thegraceingrowth.com/gallery-4 daily 0.75 2021-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1609870603629-GH9GX9I4F8C2LC49DH0N/image6.jpeg Grace in Action Women of Color Tea: The Grace of Growth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1609870613734-SX38W20WMOU9ZH9IDSW5/image5.jpeg Grace in Action Community Engaged Practitioners' Retreat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1609973598601-KPNB0WIMMZ6DWF51LE8U/image0+%283%29.jpeg Grace in Action Screen capture of Panelists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1609870625762-MWZ3BE91THUQ0JT19F1W/image4.jpeg Grace in Action Why Now? 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Founder and Principal Consultant Chianti Blackmon (she/her/ella) is a visionary equity, justice, and inclusion consultant, educator, and coach with over 15 years of experience guiding individuals and institutions through transformative change. The founder of The Grace in Growth, Chianti brings deep care, clarity, and strategy to every space she enters—believing that true equity work begins with inner work and is sustained through collective accountability and imagination. With a national portfolio spanning higher education, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations, Chianti has led efforts in leadership coaching, policy development, strategic planning, and climate transformation. As a senior-level college administrator in both public and private institutions, she has developed a reputation for navigating complexity with integrity, while creating systems that support justice, belonging, and repair. 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With a resume that spans over nearly a decade in large and small university settings, Tirrany is an esteemed equity and inclusion practitioner and student affairs leader. Her professional tenure consists of assisting university leadership on matters of diversity and inclusion, creating equitable programs and access for historically underserved populations, and consulting organizations on matters of social equality. Tirrany is a national board-certified counselor and a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor in the state of Maryland. Her areas of interest are trauma and race-based stress, destigmatizing mental illness in communities of color, and building culturally proficient practitioners. She’s a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and certified Safe Zone facilitator. Tirrany earned an undergraduate degree in behavior analysis from Savannah State University and a master’s in counselor education with an emphasis in clinical mental health from Georgia Southern University. She’s a member of the Maryland Diversity Roundtable and the Maryland Equity Inclusion Leadership Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1629314334322-UT2Z1USWINYDBYMD4JH3/DSC04893.jpg Consultants - Micahela Mobley Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1629314697220-LOW4S5VO5PR5XBCWNWAG/kyra.jpeg Consultants - Kyra Shahid Kyra Shahid, Ph.D. is a purpose doula and educational consultant. She is the principal owner of KTS Consulting, LLC, which provides healing-centered professional and student development in response to the impact of racial trauma and systemic inequities in the classroom and the workplace. Dr. Shahid has over ten years of experience in higher education. Her many passions and professional experiences reflect a particular commitment to empowering historically excluded populations, namely Black and Brown people, to recover, preserve, and amplify dreams that are at risk of spirit murder brought on by the presence of systemic racial inequities. Dr. Shahid currently serves as Assistant Director with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan. She is also Vice President of Educational Initiatives for the Bryant Educational Leadership Group, helping to provide non-traditional leadership experiences for students on a global level. Dr. Shahid is a gifted scholar and practitioner, whose work has been recognized as innovative, dynamic, and unique as it expands traditional diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. She is a powerful orator, djembe drummer, and ideator. Dr. Shahid earned her B.A. in Broadcast Media from Central State University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her dissertation examined the use of spirituality as a tool for navigating academia among Black women faculty. She is the author of Anti-Black Racism and Epistemic Violence (2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fde27637ba1bc1885965edb/1629315183718-ECGT0ZQMZ0DTV1AT62F9/IMG_1497+%281%29.jpg Consultants - Eugene Smith Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. 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Educated at Barnard College, Harvard University, and UMD, Beth’s research looks at how we can strengthen the capacity of majoritized peoples to engage—ethically, effectively, and with accountability—across differences in identity, power, and privilege. 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