JEDI Gym

Building Your Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Muscles

We’ve learned that you can’t do JEDI work in isolation. We have to learn, practice, and find our community so we can continue to develop and “become better” allies. The JEDI Gym is your one-stop shop for learning and building your JEDI knowledge; exercising and strengthening your JEDI muscles; and creating a JEDI community with other JEDI journeyers.

Knowledge-building

Grow and supplement your JEDI muscles. Enroll in any of our self-paced, online courses.

Skill-building

Exercise and build your JEDI muscles through our monthly JEDI Gym session of live conversations and scenarios on various themes.

Community-building

Strengthen your JEDI muscles with other members in a brave and psychologically safe space through our Community Portal. Connect and practice together!

*visit integratedwork.com/membership to compare plans & benefits

MEET THE TEAM

Darrie Matthew Burrage

Consultant

About Darrie

Mikayla Branz

Consultant

About Mikayla

Nadia Ali

Executive Consultant & JEDI Lead

About Nadia

Roma G Velasco

Product & Marketing Lead

About Roma

Sarah Baig

Community Health Program Lead

About Sarah

Trent Norman

Executive Consultant & JEDI Co-Lead

About Trent

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Darrie Matthew Burrage

Consultant

Darrie Matthew Burrage (he/him/his) is a consultant at Integrated Work focused on developing and delivering justice-based, human-first interventions. His 12 years of experience facilitating interactions in private, nonprofit, and academic settings centers on making differences that are deep, deliberate, and desirable at the organizational and individual levels. Darrie’s approach to inspire actions that yield lasting change is grounded in two questions: What truths about ourselves, our environments, and each other do we need to confront? And how might those truths transform our lives and the circumstances of others? Darrie has been fortunate to receive advanced training in Communication and Community Studies at Colorado State University (BA) and the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado (MA).

Mikayla Branz

Consultant

Mikayla Branz (she/her) is a consultant, facilitator, coach, and analyst at Integrated Work. With experience in the non-profit, academic, and government sectors, she is skilled at solving problems by facilitating communication among stakeholders, synthesizing information, and highlighting racial equity. She enjoys building deep relationships and using data to help people build strategic change in their organizations and systems. Mikayla began her career as a family support counselor and grassroots community organizer, so she always tries to center the people most impacted by decisions. Mikayla’s academic training includes a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from Occidental College, as well as master’s degrees in social work and public health from The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nadia Ali

Executive Consultant & JEDI Lead

Nadia Ali (she/her) is an Executive Consultant and JEDI Co-lead at Integrated Work. Over the past two decades, her career has focused on working with non-profit organizations at the intersection of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) and systems innovation, healthcare, leadership development, and organizational culture. When approaching her work, Nadia uses a trauma-informed lens, therapeutic communication techniques, and adult learning principles. She draws from her lived experience and professional background by blending a deep understanding of racial equity, various leadership frameworks, and workplace dynamics. Nadia's academic background includes studies in health policy and management, public health, and Spanish. Nadia is a graduate of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Rutgers University.

Roma G Velasco

Product & Marketing Lead

Roma G. Velasco is the Product and Marketing Lead at Integrated Work. She has over 14 years of combined experience in product development, marketing communications, brand & design, project management, community management, operations, teaching, and training. Outside of work, Roma enjoys activities that challenge her body and mind such as rock and ice climbing, gravel cycling, triathlon, and yoga. All of these and her formal training in Human Performance Psychology, contribute to her understanding of human performance, motivation, and drive when working with teams and on projects. Roma has an MA in Human Performance Psychology [Regis University], a certificate in Product Management [University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering], an Akimbo The Creative’s Workshop Alumni, and is a lifelong learner of Behavioral Economics and Design.

Sarah Baig

Community Health Program Lead

Sarah Baig (she/her) is the Community Health Program Lead and a Senior Consultant at Integrated Work. Her decade-plus experience in the non-profit, academic, and government sectors has included infusing the human-first principle into macro-level social work practices, including training, technical assistance, coaching, program management, data-driven practice, and continuous quality improvement. With a passion for social justice, Sarah is an ongoing advocate for vulnerable and marginalized populations and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Sarah is a New Jersey Licensed Social Worker and holds a Master of Social Work from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Service Studies from Elon University. Her specialties and certifications include trauma-informed care, violence against women and children, maternal child health, DEI in the workplace, human services management, and social work leadership.

Trent Norman

Executive Consultant & JEDI Co-Lead

Trent Norman (He/His/Him) (Responsive to They/Them/Theirs) is an Executive Consultant with Integrated Work. Trent’s experience as a Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional spans almost three decades of work, including the creation of a nationally recognized, award-winning, theatre for social change program, creation, delivery, and design of equity programming for education, law enforcement, government, and private entities, training of trainers to design and deliver equity programs, and several publications. Trent always strives to transform human connections by connecting lived experiences, history, theory, and compassion. Trent holds space for people to show in their whole, authentic selves while finding ways to unearth tensions and challenges and develop those experiences into learning. Trent holds a master’s degree in Social Psychology, is a Social Justice Training Institute Alum, and is a certified ski instructor.

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