COLLABORATION
AT THE HEART OF
INTERSECTIONALITY
Collaboration is a crucial part of Intersectionality. By partnering with industry leaders and experts, we create intersectional, innovative, and restorative solutions to drive progress, healing, and liberation. Together, we’re reimagining the future and achieving abundance-for-all. Meet the collaborators who help make it all possible.
PEOPLE
Intersectional Group collaborates with consultants, strategists, creatives, and practitioners covering, business, leadership, people and culture, communications, and community building.
Sarah Mulligan Williams
She/Her
Sarah is the principal creative behind Word of Mouth, a multidisciplinary creative studio that partners with organizations on marketing, visual identity, media production, and more. With people-first leadership rooted in empathy, compassion, and collaboration, Sarah prioritizes working with small disadvantaged businesses and women entrepreneurs to help realize their creative vision. She is the host and programmer of Comedy 101 at the iconic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR, where she gushes about foundational comedy films. Sarah is currently based in Oakland, CA, with her partner and their dog, Marty McPug.
Kathryn Latham
She/Her
Kathryn is an independent consultant who helps growing businesses optimize their operations, drive growth, and elevate their communications. After a degree in structural engineering from Duke University and a decade of leading projects, partnerships, and teams to exceed business goals, she left a senior-level corporate team to start Latham Business Solutions in 2021. Outside of business, Kathryn enjoys mountain-top vistas, eating her way around new cities, gardening wherever there’s soil, and being an A+ dog mom. She and Intersectional Group have joined forces on Pay Transparency reports, a website re-design, fundraising, and more.
Yeruwelle de Rouen
She/Her
Yeruwelle de Rouen is the founder and CEO of Intersectional Innovations. She is an Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion (EBI) subject matter expert with over 15 years of active experience leading the roadmap for organizational effectiveness that creates equitable inclusion within climate and institutional policy procedure.
Cristina Lumague
She/Her
Cristina is a freelance podcast editor/producer and an indie podcaster. She is self-taught and found her love for podcasts in 2020. Since then, she has worked with huge, small, non-profit, history and paranormal podcasts. All sorts of podcasts, especially those focusing on diverse voices. Everyone has a story to tell, Cristina makes sure to get the best version of that story out there.
Eliana Mendez
She/Her
Eliana Mendez (she/her) is the Creative Director at Human Centric Media, a strategic narrative agency with a trauma-informed approach. Together they engineer the narrative gravity to help clients pursue their mission, grow their capacity and step into earned leadership in their communities. Human Centric Media's inclusive, values-aligned clients include Planned Parenthood, TASTE for Equity, the Northwest Health Foundation, the University of Oregon, Hacienda CDC, Leach Botanical Garden, Pacific Northwest College of Art, OHSU Foundation and Metro.
Eliana lives in SE Portland with her dog Lola, within walking distance of at least a dozen people she loves, and three world class turkey sandwiches.
Cam Yenokida
He/Him
With more than 20 years of leadership and executive experience, Cam Yenokida works alongside leaders and teams to strengthen alignment, build trust, and improve how organizations function. His work is grounded in firsthand experience navigating complex challenges—balancing stakeholder expectations, operational demands, and team dynamics.
As Founder and Principal of Achieve Excellence, Cam partners with organizations to help leadership teams operate with clarity and intention. He creates high-trust environments that encourage candid dialogue and meaningful growth.
Cam blends practical tools with proven frameworks to help leaders translate insight into action—reducing friction, increasing capacity, and executing with greater confidence and cohesion.
Sydney Morrison
She/They
Sydney is a multifaceted community health organizer. Survived cancer at a young age, Sydney is now a personal chef for clients with specific dietary needs, cooking wholesome meals that center around fresh and local produce. She is also a certified menstrual cycle coach, navigating tough cycle challenges in 1:1 sessions, group workshops, and more, for all menstruating humans. An east coast girl on a west coast adventure, Sydney is a loving dog mom and waterfall enthusiast. In her free time Sydney enjoys reading fantasy novels written by women of color, trying new things, and exploring Portland, Oregon.
Kjell van Zoen
They/Them
Kjell Van Zoen is a serial entrepreneur, a senior energy efficiency consultant, and a DEI consultant who specializes in helping leaders who identify as white learn and do better. Kjell is a home barista and coffee snob who also enjoys hiking, biking, yoga, travel, sci-fi books, writing, art & design, music, guitar, photography, and food.
Lee Wilmoth
They/Them
Lee Wilmoth is a learning designer, strategist, and facilitator with over 10 years of experience. Through their independent consultancy, Learn & Work, they blend human-centered design, adult learning, and facilitation to deliver engaging learning experiences for leaders and teams that improve culture and organizational development. Lee has worked across many sectors including government, tech, retail and healthcare (to name a few). Whatever the context, Lee embeds joy and play, nervous system awareness, and equity and inclusion approaches to build solutions that are useful, usable, and desirable. They hold a M.A. Ed in Adult Learning and Development from Portland State University and are a LUMA Institute certified Human-Centered Design Practitioner and Facilitator.
Sarah Cargill
She/Her
Sarah Cargill has 15+ years of experience in management consulting leading go-to-market solutions, business transformations and growth at big brands like Nike and Columbia Sportswear—designing strategies, empowering high-performing teams, crafting brand communications, and driving change adoption through storytelling.
Shae Noble
She/They
Shae Noble (she/they) is the founder of Trauma-Informed HR, where she helps organizations design people systems that support both performance and stability. As a Human Resources executive and Interim Chief People Officer, she partners with leaders navigating growth, transition, and cultural change—bringing clarity to complex environments.
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With over 15 years of experience across healthcare, higher education, nonprofit, technology, and global organizations, Shae specializes in aligning culture, compliance, and operational strategy in ways that are practical and sustainable. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed leadership, helping organizations move beyond reactive systems toward ones built on clarity, consistency, and accountability.
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Shae collaborates with the Intersectional Group on projects that translate equity into real-world practice, supporting organizations in building workplaces where people and business thrive together.
Rose Kaz
She/Her
Rose Kaz is a visionary leader & lifetime entrepreneur committed to building business for good. As founder of LBI Digital, she pioneered accessible tech tools for entrepreneurs, focusing on underrepresented communities. All of Rose's work centers on closing the wage gap through interactive programs like digital cohorts and live events. Just over a year into calling Portland home, Rose is excited to focus on projects that drive innovation & true equity through technology, which she calls "tequity." Kaz's next big launch is building Business 4 Good, a Women-focused, AI support group going live on Nov 11, 2024.
Shi Choong
She/Her
Dr. Shi Choong is an event planner. Born and raised in Malaysia, Shi’s life took an unexpected turn at 15 when her parents abandoned her and her siblings. As the eldest, she became the caretaker for her three younger siblings, ages 13, 11 & 8.
When Shi moved across the continent to the US, she faced language barriers, loneliness, and financial hardship, working four jobs to fund her college education. Despite these struggles, she graduated as the department honoree in Chemistry and Biochemistry from San Francisco State University. Shi later earned her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University, which is the top program in the U.S. She was also the former license-holder and organizer for TEDxPurdueU, planning events with an audience size of 50 to 1,000.
On Sept 30, 2024, Shi quit Intel to be a wedding planner to plan the happiest day of people’s lives. In addition to weddings, Shi also plans unforgettable and meaningful events including Women Who Dare.
Pallavi Pande
She/Her
Pallavi Pande is a BIPOC mompreneur from Oregon and founder of DTOCS, a brand creating classy, compostable tableware for events, foodservice and hospitality, and DTOCS Consulting, a full-service Amazon growth partner firm, helping brands grow on Amazon. Recognized as one of America’s Top 100 Businesses, Stevies GOLD winner, a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow, and INC fastest growing females honoree, she also leads a 2,000+ member South Asian moms group in Oregon and serves on the board of Naturally Seattle. When not building businesses or mentoring founders, she’s likely dancing Zumba or sipping wine—always championing People, Planet, and Parties.
Maryanna Aster
She/Her
Maryanna Aster is a branding, creative, and content director in Portland, Oregon. As a former mission-driven business owner, Maryanna seeks out purpose-driven projects and nimble, visionary teams. In her free time, Maryanna writes and publishes poems and essays, builds her astrology and tarot business, and wanders around in natural areas appreciating natural design.
ORGANIZATIONS
Intersectional Group works with trusted partnerships who are value-driven, human-centered, and environmentally-conscious on a regular basis.
Acumen Executive Search
Acumen Executive Search leverages business leadership experience to identify the needs of the team and company, and finds the right person to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. Intersectional Group partners with Acumen on EDI and Intersectional Leadership consulting.
Heartware
Heartware helps software-centric companies embed empathy throughout their organization with customized skills training, leadership development, and operational effectiveness. Intersectional Group partners with Heartware to provide Empathy-focused Leadership education and consulting.
IT Motives
At IT Motives, we take the time upfront to truly understand your needs before diving into candidate searches. Beyond just hard skills, we focus on grasping the soft skills you value. With our thorough approach, we carefully select and present only the best candidates, saving you the hassle of sifting through unqualified resumes. We're here to ensure you get top-notch candidates without the extra work.
Interested in joining our team?
We're always seeking new people and organizations to collaborate with. If this resonates with you, please share your ideas about how we could work together.