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 equitable organizational cultures where all employees feel a sense of belonging.
Inspiring presentations that speak truth to power with grace, empathy, and a dash of humour.
Educational and arts-based workshops that create joyous spaces for small groups to learn, create, and ponder together.
Cohort-based experiences that hold brave spaces for different organizational groups to heal, empathize, explore, and recover together.
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 a speaker, workshop leader, facilitator, and decolonial consultant. Through the lens of empathy, her decolonized, intersectional approach helps organizations identify how colonial norms are deeply embedded into ways of being, working, and doing, and co-designs organizational culture strategies to improve flexibility, integrate universal design, and support people from equity-denied communities.
“Anna-Liza’s facilitation doesn’t just inspire reflection—it drives accountability, action, and lasting impact.”
– Facilitated Community Participant
“Anna-Liza Badaloo has made outstanding contributions to the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health (ENRICH) Project as a strong advocate for environmental and social justice. Anna-Liza’s knowledge on the intersections of health, environment and social justice, her extensive experience working alongside communities to dismantle oppressive systems, and the unwavering kindness and positivity she extends to those around her make her an invaluable member of the ENRICH team. In particular, Anna-Liza provided critical support on the ENRICH Project’s “Environmental Injustice of Beauty” social media campaign, offering her diverse skills in content writing, journalism and digital storytelling to guide outreach efforts and develop project messaging. Her keen ability to foster meaningful relationships with community partners was also crucial to campaign efforts and supported the ENRICH Project in developing a network of organizations, experts and activists to amplify project messages across health and environmental sectors.”
— Dr. Ingrid Waldron, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project)
“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.”