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Walia Consulting is a values-based firm committed to progressive movement building.

About

Priya Walia is the principal and owner of Walia Consulting, LLC. Priya has more than a decade of nonprofit and legal experience including development, policy advocacy, compliance, and governance. She has led state-wide coalitions to pass legislation, litigated in courts across the country, and actively contributed to harm reduction work. She’s a prison abolitionist, compassionate facilitator, attorney, and proud LGBTQIA+ Appalachian Desi. Priya is the founding board President of Holler Health Justice, a racial, economic, and reproductive justice nonprofit and abortion fund in Appalachia. She is proud to offer discounted rates for abortion funds.

Services

Policy

Our local and state level policy consulting services include research and implementation, drafting and amending, and community-centered education and direct action.

Facilitation

From board and staff retreats to coalition meetings, we can create and lead a facilitation tailored to your needs.

Nonprofit Compliance & Governance

We have worked at every level of compliance for small and large nonprofits.

Hands-On Support & Org Development

Need additional capacity? We provide hands-on support to our clients through logistical planning, process optimization, conflict mediation, and even volunteer management and coordination.

Strategic Planning

We specialize in policy planning and strategy, short- and long-term policy engagement plans, end-of-legislative session assessments, and support for those newer to policy, including alignment of values, effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis of staff time, and more.

Trainings

We offer a wide variety of remote and in-person trainings, from "Testify 101," DEI, and racial justice workshops, to leadership development and sessions featuring cross-disciplinary integration.

Approach

Defending and enforcing human rights can feel like a fight. But our approach at Walia Consulting comes from a place of love for humanity and respect for our collective liberation.

Reproductive justice values-based

Our lives are intersectional and our approach to liberation should be too. The reproductive justice framework tells us that it is our inalienable and inherent right to achieve full bodily autonomy. Our work is not done until everyone can have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

Compassion first

Emotional intelligence is central to our mission. We may fight for what is right in statehouses and in discourse, but winning the ethical argument isn’t enough. We approach our client work with solidarity and a deep recognition of our shared humanity.

Community-driven, community building

No person and no community are disposable. People are central to our consulting practice because social change cannot happen in a vacuum. We seek to build where others have torn down and grow what others have discarded. People with lived experience have the answers to our liberation, and they are central to movement building work.

Want to see us in action?

"Testify 101 Workshop"

Check out Priya's training skills in this virtual testimony writing workshop co-hosted by the National Women's Law Center and the Womxn Project from April 2021.

Watch at thewomxnproject.org

Testimonials

Walia Consulting is proud to boast a 98% satisfaction rate in facilitation and 93% satisfaction rate with retreat and meeting programing. Read some testimonials from our happy clients below.

“We owe much of our organization's internal strength to Priya's thoughtful and thorough conflict mediation skills. Our professional relationships with each other are forever changed for the better."

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