Credentials

Alissa Schwartz, MSW, PhD

• 13 years independent consulting with more than 50 organizations, including foundations, universities, community-based groups, coalitions and networks, grassroots start-ups, and international organizations

• 30+ years experience working with nonprofit organizations 

• PhD in social work from Columbia University, with a focus on organizational behavior and psychology

• Creator of the customizable Complequity Organizational Assessment Tool™ 

• MSW from University of Washington

• BA in theater directing from Wesleyan University

• Author of Organizational Performance Art: Holding Space for Joy and Possibility

• Co-editor and chapter author of a special issue of New Directions in Evaluation that is focused on the intersectionalities of evaluation and facilitation

• Trained by master trainer Robert Gass in the art of transformational consulting

• Mother and grandmother, partner to jazz drummer and composer Andrew Drury, and occasional volunteer puppeteer for Bread and Puppet theater