MEET THE ESC CONSULTANTS
Cassandra Clay
Cassandra Clay is a nonprofit consultant and clinical practitioner with over thirty years in social work and education. Clay provides consulting and coaching on systems improvement for nonprofits, and has been a member of numerous social work research teams. Cassandra also has delivered presentations and training on cultural responsibility and cultural humility and is actively engaged in collaborating to create DEIB systems changes in organizations.
Consultants can sometimes feel a bit like marriage counselors when called in during a crisis situation. Whether we are doing crisis intervention or working at a slower pace and more strategically, the goal is to attend to relationship building so that good data can be captured. We work to help the client accurately assess organizational needs and to collaboratively lay the groundwork for long term success.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Program and leadership development
- Retreat facilitation
- Strategic Planning
- Succession planning
- Chica Project
- DOVE, Inc.
- St. Katherine Drexel Parish
- Family Continuity
MORE ABOUT CASSANDRA
Cassandra, who taught at the BU School of Social Work for more than 20 years, is now a professor emeriti, member of the Dean’s Advisory Board, and currently serves as a Boston University Trustee.. She is the former program chair for a child health and wellness collaboration between the Links, Inc. and the BPS King School and a former fellow at Center for Social Policy at UMass/Boston. Cassandra currently runs a private counseling practice and serves on the board of Metro Housing Boston, an organization committed to providing housing stability for Boston area residents.
Boston University’s School of Social Work
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fisk University