Wilnelia Rivera
- Role
- President at Rivera Consulting, Inc
- Location
- Suffolk County, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Wilnelia Rivera
Wilnelia is an urban planner and equity strategist with a 21 year track record of success…
Experience
President
Nov 2015 — Present
IN TODAY’S WORLD AND THE ONE THAT IS EMERGING, WE ARE A MOVEMENT-BUILDING FIRM COMMITTED TO A BOLD AND FIERCE RE-IMAGINATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIAL CONTRACT. Our Work: Our reputation is to bring order, sequence, and infrastructure, while guaranteeing to measure progress and reach your desired results. Across the country, no other firm takes the old playbook, keep what works, and innovates a new path forward. We create learning organizations that can co-create and co-advance innovative public policy solutions and campaigns through people-centered research and evaluation tools, electoral campaigns and training, innovative asset mapping, and values-based organizational change management. We also combine urban planning and social science research to help measure and understand the impact of people centered and sustainable development. We use data to build trust and value-based resource alignment. We seek to unlock the hearts, skills, and minds of our clients to produce multidimensional social interventions, developmental evaluation tools, and community empowerment strategies to transform community participation. Lastly, we are movement building campaign experts and researchers on the hunt for viable women and people of color running for office. Our Clients. Our work is focused in Boston, the South, Midwest, and Latin America. Deep democracy - the cornerstone of our services - is an urban planning, political and social change tool kit that can support the paradigm shift necessary for a just transition. Our clients are 21st century change agents in academia, politics, government, sustainability, movement justice and philanthropy– whether it’s changing hearts, advancing sustainability, helping elect more Democratic women and people of color, or transformative policy change.
Education
Tufts University
BA, International Relations, Women's Studies
2000 — 2004
MIT
Mel King Fellow
2012 — 2012
Tufts University
Masters in Urban and Enviromental Policy & Planning , Social Science and Urban Planning
Mondragón Unibertsitatea
Cooperative Economic Development
Skills
- Community Development
- Board Relations
- Organizational Development
- Policy Analysis
- Community Organizing
- Civic Engagement
- Urban Planning
- Volunteer Management
- Program Development
- Public Speaking
- Public Policy
- Political Campaigns
- Legislative Relations
- Politics
- Environmental Policy
- Resource Development
- Political Strategy
- Economic Development
- Grassroots
- Community Outreach
- Nonprofits
- Government Relations
- Project Management
- Board Governance
- Social Justice
- Grassroots Organizing
- Coalitions
- Fundraising
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Policy
- Government
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