Our Team
We are a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multiracial team. We work across the differences in our diverse lived experience and identities to model the diversity, racial equity, and inclusion that we espouse. We bring in additional insightful and representative voices based on the need of our clients. We prioritize the collective well-being of staff, teams, and leadership in all we do. We are skilled in creating a supportive environment using trauma-informed practices to address the sensitive high-stakes topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Here is our core team:
MICHELLE OSBORNE, J.D.
Michelle M. Osborne, J.D. & Associates, LLC
206.913.9278
michellem.osborne7@gmail.com
Seattle WA
NORA KARENA, M.A.
TONI BELCHER, M.B.A.
Management Consultant
Executive Director,
Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute
602.690.5353
tobelcher@kaleidoscopeleadership.biz
tonikbelcher@gmail.com
Tucson AZ
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Michelle Osborne, J.D.
Michelle M. Osborne, J.D. & Associates, LLC
206.913.9278
michellem.osborne7@gmail.com
Seattle WA
Michelle M. Osborne, is the principal and owner of Michelle M. Osborne, J.D. & Associates, LLC. She is a consultant, facilitator, and trainer with expertise in strategic planning and leadership development for nonprofits, businesses and governmental organizations. A former prosecutor and civil trial lawyer, Michelle has specific expertise in strategic and action planning; leadership development; improving workplace organizational and operational processes, systems, policies, and culture; the challenges and nuances of instituting and sustaining antiracist policies in the workplace; and the role of women in positions of power and leadership, including women of color. She provides customized training on equity and antiracism practice and conducts assessments and original research on the readiness and response of organizations to implement and deepen racial equity.
Michelle is well-versed on the legal and historic impact of racism on Black women and people of color in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence. She has served as a researcher on multi-community outreach challenges for a domestic violence agency, the director of a rape crisis center in Palo Alto, California, and as an educator on healthy sex attitudes and practices for teens and young adults at a Silicon Valley family services organization.
For three years, Michelle was the Race and Social Justice Manager at YWCA Seattle| King| Snohomish, one of the largest YWCAs in the country. She has led the boards of a San Francisco domestic violence agency and a women’s leadership institute and has served as an appointed commissioner to the Santa Clara County (California) Commission on the Status of Women and as a member to the State Bar of California’s committee on women in the law.
Michelle presently serves on the boards of Seattle, Washington-based Sexual Violence Law Center, and the Family Violence Appellate Project in Oakland, California. Michelle received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her law degree from UCLA and is a member of the California bar.
Nora Karena, M.A.
Nora Karena LLC | Principal & Owner
714.326.6192
norakarena@gmail.com
Louisville KY
Nora Karena is an antiracist educator and writer with expertise in homelessness, sexual and intimate partner violence, and child welfare. She has more than 20 years of non-prophet experience including direct service, management, executive leadership, and consulting. She also teaches social and behavioral sciences and is a contributing author to a series of DEI-focused sociology textbooks.
Nora has a B.A. from Linfield College, and M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Washington, Bothell. Her theoretical work has been an interdisciplinary exploration of white supremacy and allyship through literary criticism, critical pedagogy, community organizing, research and writing. Intersecting with this theoretical space, her professional work focuses on operationalizing antiracist management policy and practices, that prioritize the well-being of constituencies most impacted by systems of oppression.
She identifies as a white, working-class, fem-presenting, cisgender queer woman. Her partner of 20 years, and she have a small menagerie of furred and feathered beasts. She lives in Louisville Kentucky.
Management Consultant
Executive Director,
Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute
602.690.5353
tobelcher@kaleidoscopeleadership.biz
tonikbelcher@gmail.com
Tucson AZ
Toni Belcher is a strategic consultant, project manager, transactional 6 Sigma Black Belt, change manager, and facilitator with expertise in business model optimization, strategic planning, operations, and leadership development. Her work with non-profits is grounded in her work with the Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute. Her work with big and small, domestic and global for-profit organizations arms her with a unique understanding of best practices using levers of change that work across organizational types.
Toni currently serves as the executive director of the Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute, an organization born in 1991 with the recognition that leadership programs did not address the unique challenges and concerns faced by women of color in the workplace. Leveraging that 30+ year legacy of recognizing the power of diversity and value of effective leadership, Toni took over the reins of the Institute from Dr. Jacquelyn M. Belcher and transitioned it to its current focus – a collaboration that advances the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Toni has a B.A. in Psychology from Mills College, an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, and is a trained transactional 6 Sigma Black Belt for new processes and process improvement.
Toni lives near Tucson AZ with her husband of almost 20 years. She lives 2 miles from her mother, Dr. Jacquelyn M. Belcher – Executive Director Emeritus with whom she still confers and consults in matters related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.