My typical clients include:

• School districts

• Nonprofits

• Corporations

• Government agencies

• Philanthropic foundations

Most of my projects fall under a few areas:

• Strategy direction

• Program management

• User-research design (UX)

• Information architecture (IA)

• Experience design (XD)

Specific cases I have worked on include small school design, curriculum design, nonprofit management, learning management systems (LMS), knowledge management systems (KMS), organizational restructure, policy research, program and organizational evaluation, product development.

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Thank you for your interest in working with me. Getting started is simple! Please use my contact me page set up a time to meet and discuss details of your project including scope, timeline, desired outcomes, budget, and any other information that will be helpful. My number one priority is to ensure that I can provide everything you need for a successful final outcome. After you reach out to me, I will be in touch in right away to discuss next steps and getting started.

Yes! As a designer, researcher, and scientist, I am thoroughly versed in many of the theoretical perspectives and institutional practices that gave rise to DEI, JEDI, and DEIA as a popular work spaces in corporate, nonprofit, academic, and government agencies. I bring a highly refined equity-lens to everything I do. At the same time, my experience and observation is that these efforts are most meaningful when tied to substantial commitments to shift organizational resources and behaviors, including accountability for leaders and key stakeholders.

To ensure that DEI initiatives go beyond performative gestures and tokenism, both of which can hinder broader social progress and exacerbate the marginalization of vulnerable groups, I engage in thorough, outcomes-based discussions with potential clients. This allows me to gain a deeper understanding of their needs and expectations. Leveraging my extensive background in areas such as race, class, gender, and ablism, I collaborate with clients to develop and implement strategies aligned with their specific goals.

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Yes. I am open to regular full-time employment in organizations or companies that are aligned to my values, experience, compensation requirements, and conditions of employment. Please contact me to discuss if your company or organization might be a good fit.

Great question! Think of data science as focusing on discovering useful patterns and information from large amounts of data. Data science uses complex tools and methods to understand this data, helping people to make smart decisions in areas such as business management and government policy.

Meanwhile, information science is the big picture of how we deal with all sorts of information. It's not just about data but also about how we organize, keep, find, and share information. It involves things like making technology accessible, and figuring out how we can find what we need in the big world of information. It also tackles ethical issues such as what companies ought and ought not be able to do with people’s data and information.

It may sound like geek-speak, but sociotechnical is an important term often used to describe the complex relationships between humans (social) and their tools (technical). It recognizes that the design, development, and use of the technology are social phenomena. Sociotechnical aims to understand how people value, use, or think about technologies, including who gets to be involved in important decisions of which technologies we pursue and at what costs, and to whom.

A major benefit of sociotechnical design and analysis is the foregrounding of both real and imagined roles of technology in human life. This lens can be applied to schools, organizations, businesses, government agencies, communities, and even broader society. When conducted with diligence and a strong ethical orientation, sociotechnical approaches can provide insights into the development, adoption, and rejection of technologies in collaborative human efforts such as pursuing nonprofit organizational missions, business objectives, or broader social goals.

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Zithri Information Associates, LLC is a boutique technology and information design consulting firm specializing in supporting executive leaders in the design, management, and evaluation of equity-focused programs, products, and initiatives. Since 2016, I have owned and operated the firm, leveraging a diverse network of Black and Brown technologists, creatives, and professionals to support businesses, schools districts, nonprofits, and corporations to tackle mission critical information-intensive projects.

We are primarily a Seattle-based team. More recently, we have taken on work throughout the United States and Europe. Most of our work is performed remotely, but we are open to hybrid or site-based work upon request.

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