Roanhorse Consulting: Journal Chapter Outline (coauthored)

Client: Roanhorse Consulting

Brief: The CEO and founder of Roanhorse Consulting was asked to write a feature article about her vision for a “future economy” for Nonprofit Quarterly, (the leading media platform for the nonprofit sector and civil society in the US). Roanhorse had a lot of powerful information to convey, particularly about the way that she came into her work, and hired me to help wrangle, organize and create a proper narrative and storytelling structure out of the various materials—biographical, organizational and political/social.

Response: To help break down the most crucial information, and incorporate Roanhorse’s personal and extremely compelling narrative, I conducted several interviews with her and created a high-level outline about her journey of discovery with economic justice, beginning with Diné roots, and growing up on a reservation. From there, we wove in a “health and wealth” connection to her work and vision (these aspects were crucial to her groundbreaking ideas about matriarchal economies). Based on her indigenous roots and story, I recommended an editorial approach and detailed outline that interwove her teenage journey, and incorporating various visuals and graphic elements to illustrate her unique and feminist vision for collective economic power. The final published piece can be viewed here.