The Institute for Liberatory Innovation generates sustained, systemic change with new practices for individuals, organizations and schools so that more people thrive in an ever more peaceful world.

  • Reframing Equity in Organizations: Accelerating and Sustaining Change

    We work with organizations to change behavior, and to design and tend systems that protect equity. This approach drives change on relational and systemic levels, and builds the capacity to sustain it.

  • Bumbling Humans: Reflections on Liberatory Change

    In this compelling collection of essays, author and ILI Director Lucinda J. Garthwaite delves deep into the intricacies of human nature, challenges societal norms and offers an alternative perspective, urging readers to align their daily lives with a vision of a thriving, just, and peaceful future.

  • What Works? Identifying Educator Behaviors that Support Equity in Schools.

    This research project asks the question, what educator behaviors make it possible for all students to thrive in school, as who they are and are becoming - and behave in ways that allow others to thrive?

  • Equity Scholar In Residence for K-12 Schools

    The Equity Scholar In Residence (ESR) Model is a new way to drive equity in schools, combining genuine relationship, compassionate response, learner-centered professional development and responsive scholarship to give educators the information and skills they need to ensure that more and more children thrive in school as who they are and are becoming - and behave in ways that allow others to thrive.

  • The Multi-Racial Relationships Research Project

    Changing relationships is a cornerstone of social change. This project focuses on the experiences of multi-racial families as a source of insight and practice in support for strong and intentional multi-racial relationships.

  • Intersections: The Newsletter of the Institute for Liberatory Innovation

    A bi-weekly newsletter of thinking, resources and action for liberatory systems change.

What We Do

Programs & Services 

Grounded in careful thinking, research, and deep respect for work that has come before, our programs support change aligned with the unique character and challenges of partner schools and organizations.

Publications

ILI publications offer innovative thinking about social change, and practical ideas and strategies for change in organizations and schools.

Thinking, News and Resources for Liberatory Change

The free twice-monthly ILI newsletter, Intersections, offers thoughtful essays and resources to support individual action aligned with a vision for a more just and nonviolent world, where more and more people thrive.

“One of our main tasks now is to understand this moment, what it might require of us, and what it might make possible.”

– Rebecca Solnit