Testimonials
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Dwayne S. Marsh, CEO, Northern California Grantmakers
“I’ve had the opportunity to work with Caitlin in her capacity as a Senior Fellow with Northern California Grantmakers. Her insight, empathy, and sensitivity are what immediately capture your attention, but there is so much more that she brings to challenging conversations on race, power, practice, and transformation. She is a gifted facilitator, contributor, strategist, supporter, and when necessary, provocateur. But the thing that radiates strongest and is most compelling is her prodigious humanity. Caitlin believes in, understands, and elevates people.”
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Ali Sirkus Brody, Senior Donor Services Officer, San Francisco Foundation
“Caitlin is a calming companion helping to keep me in touch with my body as I walk my path of equity and do the work to come into right relationship with BIPOC peers, colleagues, and communities.”
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Abby Yim, Executive Director, Integrated Community Services
“Caitlin has been such a warm, wise and trusted guide during a very challenging time to lead. It has felt like such an unexpected and healing gift to meet Caitlin at the start of the pandemic and to have had the opportunity to learn from her sense of equanimity, deep compassion, and ability to run towards what’s hard while maintaining a sense of joy. I can’t recommend working with Caitlin highly enough; being in her presence brings you closer to yourself.”
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Leanna Powell, Both/And Collaborative, Anti-Racist Trainer
“I admire and appreciate Caitlin most for her rare ability to balance radical honesty with loving kindness. She listens and reflects with delicious depth, and has the ability to make strangers feel as welcome and seen as lifelong friends. Working with Caitlin has consistently challenged me to reach deeper and higher in my pursuit of justice and beloved community.”
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Myra Chow, retired philanthropic foundation senior executive, participant in mindful community
“Over the years, I have tried to develop an ongoing meditation practice but my journey has had fits and starts. Caitlin’s amazing weekly sessions are something that I look forward to and are helping me lay the foundation for my practice. I deeply appreciate her loving, engaging and non-judgmental approach that invites you in. I especially treasure the thought-provoking poems, readings, and photos that she shares before each meditation session.”
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Maria Elena De La Garza, Executive Director, Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County
“Our work with Caitlin over the past year has been instrumental in supporting our management and leadership team. Caitlin, a respected maestra, has provided capacity building on both a group and individual level to strengthen our mindfulness practice, learn new ways to heal, understand our collective strength, and gently recover from the impacts of our pandemic response. We are profoundly grateful for Caitlin’s guidance, teachings and her investment in our well being.”
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Monarch Services
“Caitlin came to find me during a time when I couldn’t even find myself. She has been an amazing support and aid to my professional and ethical growth! Caitlin is clearly well versed in many topics. She made me look within myself to find my voice and power. She nurtured my growth delicately and firm all at once. She shared her knowledge about non-profits. She honored my story and held space for me to feel. She taught and reminded me of the small gestures that will help my growth in the long run by grounding myself and taking the time to stop. I believe Caitlin is not only a great coach, but an amazing human with a great soul.”
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Wendy Todd, Principal, Wendy Todd Consulting
“Caitlin is phenomenal at bringing people together, creating a safe space for vulnerability, and catalyzing a group from connection to action! Caitlin is in-tune with individual and group dynamics and lovingly nurtures individuals and groups to be their best. Caitlin has a unique ability to illuminate alternatives and a path forward for individuals and groups when they feel stuck. Caitlin asks all the right questions to help individuals and groups find their path forward and be their best selves when they feel stuck. In addition to being an authentic mindfulness practitioner, a skillful coach, and a social justice warrior, Caitlin is a deep learner and writer. When individuals and groups engage with Caitlin, they will receive more than what they ever imagined!”
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Paz Padilla, Programs Impact Director, Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County
“I’m so grateful to Caitlin for her time with me. This has been one of the best zoom meetings throughout the pandemic. I really look forward to meeting with Caitlin because she has made the session so easy to talk to and to enjoy. Our sessions are very peaceful yet powerful due to her angelic dedication. She constantly reminds me that I’m loved and that I am human, which gives me a great sense of internal peace and strength to continue enjoying life.”
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Heather Bullock, Director, UC Santa Cruz’s Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance
“Critically interrogating whiteness in all of its manifestations is a lifelong process. Caitlin both embodies and facilitates the critical reflexivity that is crucial to this work and in doing so, creates safe spaces for self-reflection and new openings for growth. Her willingness to ask difficult questions, sit with discomfort, and welcome uncertainty motivates me to also take on these challenges. I am grateful that Caitlin has helped me identify new ways to approach and challenge intersecting systems of oppression in my everyday interactions.”