Liz Hammond, LCSW, is an experienced facilitator and leader with a passion for supporting courageous conversations about racism, power, and privilege in organizations and communities. She has experience leading organizational change around these themes, and most recently as a Senior Consultant with Launch Consulting. She came to Launch Consulting after being an Organizational Culture Equity Fellow at the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, whose philanthropic mission is dedicated to ending racism and poverty. Committed to positive community change, she has held positions at Public Allies CT, The Institute of Living, the Yale Child Study Center Childhood Trauma Clinic, and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and furthered her studies in social justice, anti-racism, and clinical skills at Smith College School for Social Work, where she earned a master’s degree and authored a thesis examining race consciousness in the relationship between White clinicians and their White supervisors. She believes in the power of speaking to and listening for each other’s humanity and is passionate about promoting dialogue and grounding organizations in the work of equity and justice.