Anemochory Consulting
Leveraging empathy to confront colonial harms
and foster organizational justice.
We help organizations uncover how colonial harms show up in the workplace. By leveraging empathy with a decolonized, intersectional lens, we amplify traditionally silenced voices and help foster inclusive workplaces where all employees feel a sense of belonging.
Impactful Speaking
Inspiring presentations that speak truth to power with grace, empathy, and a dash of humour.
Supportive Workshops
Educational and arts-based workshops that create joyous spaces for small groups to learn, create, and ponder together.
Facilitated Communities
Cohort-based experiences that hold brave spaces for different organizational groups to heal, empathize, explore, and recover together.
Decolonial Consulting
Relational support for organizational leaders to clarify complex issues, leverage seasonal energies, and feel affirmed in equity-denied identities.
Anna-Liza Badaloo (she/her) is an organizational consultant, un-learner, and inclusive storyteller working at the intersection of health, environment, and social justice. Viewing organizational justice and belonging through the lens of empathy, her decolonized, intersectional approach helps organizations identify how systemic discriminatory structures are embedded into their ways of working, and co-designs strategies to raise awareness and dismantle barriers.
From Our Clients
“Anna-Liza deftly examines the connections between socioeconomic inequity and injustice, and the health of individuals and communities — particularly marginalized or vulnerable communities — taking a necessarily intersectional approach to the impacts of Islamophobia and racism on individual and collective health and wellbeing. Her analysis is thoughtful, insightful, and holistic and her communication style is exceedingly accessible.”
– Erika Shaker, Director, National Office
Editor, Our Schools / Our Selves
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
“Anna-Liza brings diverse expertise and knowledge, a critical and analytical lens, a firm grounding in contemporary conditions and contexts, and a commitment and passion to the work that is so necessary given the weight and complexity of the issues being addressed. My experience with Anna-Liza ranges from working in coalitions, research, event-planning, communications and messaging, knowledge translation and mobilization, and community building. In every instance, Anna-Liza brings her all to the table, in reciprocity and respect.”
— Dr. Jane E. McArthur
Toxics Program Director, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)
I live, work, and play on stolen Indigenous lands, located in what is colonially called Toronto, Ontario, Canada. These lands are the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 (signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit), and the Williams Treaties (signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands).
We are located in the Annex on what is now called Spadina Road. The Anishinaabemowin word ishpadinaa means “high hill” or “going up the hill”. The Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (NCCT) is located nearby, and has long been a key place of support for Indigenous Peoples to gather to resist assimilation together, provide a support network, and nurture Indigenous knowledge. Today, the Toronto Public Library’s Spadina Branch houses one of Toronto’s biggest collections of Indigenous materials, partially provided by the NCCT in the 1980s. Further North on Spadina Road is the junction of two historic Indigenous trails in Toronto: Ishpadinaa and Gete-Onigaming (now Davenport Road).
Current signage at the above location was inspired by the Ogimaa Mikana Project, which in 2016 replaced official street signs and historical plaques in the city of Toronto with Anishinaabe versions. One such plaque reads:
“We are slowly reclaiming our territories from an alien landscape committed to erasing us while contributing to the growing Indigenous cultural, political and linguistic revitalization efforts across Turtle Island. In the space between raising up our nations and languages and reminding non-Indigenous people that they are on Indian land, we hope to create dialogue.”