Chianti Blackmon, M.S.
Founder and Principal Consultant
Chianti Blackmon, M.S.(She/her/hers) has over 15 years of experience in training, facilitating and educating around issues of justice, equity, and inclusion on a national level in higher education, non-profits, and organizations. She is a senior level college administrator with experience in both private and public colleges and universities creating and implementing diversity strategic planning, supporting historically underrepresented groups, program planning, policy review and development as well as addressing climate transformation and change.
She serves as Co-Chair of the Washington Regional Task Force-Against Campus Prejudice (WRTF.org), a member of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) and a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Her work includes, but is not limited to; racial climate assessment, understanding non-inclusive language, communication and conflict across difference, addressing implicit bias in leadership and hiring as well as Ally/accomplice and co-conspirator assessment.
Chianti earned her undergraduate degree in interpersonal/public and business/organizational communication from the University of Akron (OH) and her master's degree in clinical pastoral counseling from Loyola University, Maryland. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Higher Education at Morgan State University. She maintains a commitment to promote and sustain equity, inclusion, justice and transformation with an uncompromising commitment to inspire individuals to take an active role in developing a more just society.