Chief Executive Officer at Buffalo Cloud Consulting, LLC

Christine Moses is an award-winning communicator and expert consultant working with schools, nonprofits, government agencies, law firms and tech firms on the high-risk issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, community engagement, and communications. Her company, Buffalo Cloud Consulting (BCC), co-creates equity programs, strategic plans, trainings, and coaching sessions for clients through multiple collaborative pathways.

As an equity consultant, Christine uses non-violent communication and trauma-informed practices to identify clients’ needs, help them articulate their positions clearly, and then center their opinions in the community discussion. She then ensures everyone is engaged in the conversations. The Art of Community is an underlying philosophy for her work while providing a culturally responsive experience that honors past harms through storytelling and design thinking/ethnographic strategies. Her Professional Development and Coaching approach bridges cultures, age groups, races, classes, and gender identities to reach desired outcomes through thoughtful, deep engagement by building empathy for others. In the process, clients understand the historic harms caused by past and current racial policies to inform the development of their equity lens in order to eliminate individual, institutional, and systemic barriers to racial equity. Results include:

• The amplification of historically minoritized voices within the engagement and policy making/changing processes
• The collective understanding of how implicit bias, cultural norms and practices, and systems organization reinforce stereotypes, racism, and disproportionate outcomes
• The centering of equity within the policy engagement and crafting processes by identifying specific measurable outcomes and community values early
• The building of community capacity for change by using collective impact strategies.
• The incorporation of strategic planning, strategic communications, and audits at all levels of the engagement process