Meet my Collaborators!
While I typically work solo, I enjoy collaborating with teammates on specific projects to bring additional skills and capacity to CAP Consulting.
Here’s a little bit about them!
Norma Timbang
Norma Timbang is known for supporting organizations towards creating cultures of belonging; including increasing knowledge of anti-racism, equity, inclusion, and diversity; effective working relationships among diverse community activists, organizers, health and social health organizations, and policy makers; and facilitating integration of equity, inclusion, and diversity policies and practices. This work facilitates exploration of social identities (e.g. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, elders, youth, immigrant communities, and more) and the impacts of racial oppression and intergenerational trauma, and intersectional experiences.
Norma teaches social work for social justice, InterGroup Dialogue, cultural humility and diversity, intra and inter- relational connections, community-based assessments and community centered program evaluation, organizational development and policy and community practice at the University of Washington School of Social Work. In her consultant practice, New Transitions Consulting, Norma has worked with Disability Rights WA, DRW, EOLWA, ACRS, the Tenants’ Union, and currently provides consultation to GenPride and King County Community and Human Services. Norma has also been a trainer with DSHS Aging in Long Term Services Administration and Development Disabilities Administration
Colleen Fontana
Colleen was born and raised in the Yakima Valley and still calls Washington home. She has ten years of organizing and educational experience with non profits and workers in Washington, specifically in Seattle, King County, and the Yakima Valley. Colleen started in the labor movement as a labor rights educator with Casa Latina, supporting day laborers and domestic workers in understanding their rights at work, and co-leading the Worker Defense Committee providing resources for workers to recover unpaid wages. There she also supported the Promotora program which centered leadership development of domestic workers to support outreach to other folks in the industry and building networks of support and solidarity within the community.
She continued this work at Fair Work Center / Working Washington where she worked as an Outreach & Education Specialist before becoming the Basebuilding Director. In these roles, she managed the team's base building strategy for restaurant workers, domestic workers, and agricultural workers. This included preparing and facilitating focus groups, 1:1s and outreach to workers in these industries to help guide the larger strategy and policy campaigns as well as to center worker voices and needs in the organizing. Colleen's background and training in the popular education model allows her to put participant experience at the center of any training or 1:1, and create space to build trust. Colleen is bilingual in Spanish and earned her BA in Journalism from Seattle University.