Convirtiendo Ideas en Estrategias
Radical Southern Strategies (RSS), LLC es una firma de consultoría dirigida por mujeres y de propiedad latina que apoya a organizaciones de impacto social en los
EE. UU. y América Latina para transformar ideas en iniciativas estratégicas.
"Una visión sin estrategia sigue siendo una ilusión." Lee Bolman
La misión de Radical Southern Strategies es transformar el sector de la justicia social en un ecosistema más justo y con buenos recursos. Hacemos esto trabajando en asociación con organizaciones de justicia social para crear e implementar intervenciones estratégicas que amplifiquen su impacto y amplíen su alcance.
Visualizamos un ecosistema de justicia social que esté interconectado, holísticamente bien y con los recursos adecuados para crear un cambio transformacional. Somos defensoras visionarias que cultivan, cambian y enriquecen comunidades formadas mutuamente.
RSS ofrece servicios de consultoría que abordan las causas fundamentales de los problemas sociales sistémicos en las áreas de desarrollo organizacional, evaluación, planificación estratégica y desarrollo de fondos.
Nuestros Servicios
Nuestro trabajo se basa en principios y prácticas de justicia social con un enfoque sureño de investigación y desarrollo, lo que implica centrar las voces y experiencias de aquellos más afectados por la opresión y construir relaciones duraderas con nuestros socios.
RSS trabaja con fundaciones y organizaciones sin fines de lucro en el Sur Global y Estados Unidos para aumentar su capacidad de ejecutar su misión de manera efectiva a través de la innovación y el pensamiento creativo (en inglés y español). Nuestros servicios incluyen:
"Radical significa simplemente agarrar las cosas desde la raíz".
Ángela Davis
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Desarrollo organizacional
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Planificación, entrega y ejecución de retiros del personal y de la junta directiva.
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Planificación, realización y ejecución de reuniones y convocatorias.
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Desarrollo de la junta y planificación de sucesión.
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Sesiones personalizadas de coaching y capacitación para mejorar las políticas, procesos y prácticas organizacionales.
Desarrollo de fondos
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Creación de listas de prospectos de financiación.
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Preparación de propuestas de financiación, presupuestos y otros documentos de respaldo.
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Desarrollo de estrategias de recaudación de fondos para diversificar los ingresos por financiación.
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Investigación, Evaluación y Estrategia
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Investigación sobre temas específicos para ampliar los programas
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Creación e implementación de planes de evaluación de procesos y resultados.
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Desarrollo e implementación de procesos de planificación estratégica y estrategias de concesión de subvenciones.
Nuestros Valores
Equity
We promote justice, impartiality and fairness within the procedures, processes, and distribution of resources in the social justice sector and beyond.
Flexibility
We are committed to listening to our team members and partners to adapt our approaches to ever changing community needs and contexts.
Justice
We work to create and enhance just practices and systems that require accountability mechanisms that address and repair harm.
Intersectionality
We recognize how multiple identities (race and ethnicity, gender, immigration status, nationality, etc.) intersect and impact our everyday lives, and we strive to level the playing field by creating equitable strategies and solutions.
Rest
We promote rest as a practice needed to restore, heal and keep bringing joy to our work.
Trust
We bring honesty and humility to our work to build long-lasting relationships of trust with each other and with our partners
Nuestro Equipo
El equipo de RSS aporta más de cinco décadas de experiencia combinada en el sector de la justicia social. RSS ha apoyado a organizaciones sin fines de lucro con procesos para desarrollar estrategias, diseñar programas y recaudar fondos. También aportamos una amplia experiencia trabajando con organizaciones filantrópicas para desarrollar estrategias de concesión de subvenciones, fortalecer sus equipos y desarrollar soluciones equitativas.
Rosa Gómez-Herrin, Ph.D.
Founder & Principal
Rosa is a scholar, community advocate, organizer, urban planner, and strategist from the Global South with more than twenty-five years of experience at the intersection of nonprofit practice and philanthropy. She leads consulting projects, cultivates partnerships, and guides long-term strategy for organizations advancing equity across the United States and Latin America.
A first-generation immigrant from Lima, Perú, Rosa has spent over two decades living and working in the U.S. Deep South. Over the course of her career, she has spent more than 12 years working within grassroots and community-based organizations and a decade in philanthropy, giving her a strong understanding of both sides of the funding ecosystem. She currently lives and works between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Lima, Perú, bringing a transnational perspective to her work rooted in racial, gender, climate, and economic justice.
Rosa earned a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Southern Mississippi, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans, and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from UNO. She is also a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in organizational development, grant writing, program evaluation, and social justice.
Lila Brustad, MSC
Content Strategist
Lila is a writer and researcher from the Florida Gulf Coast. As Content Strategist at RSS, she leads the development and execution of content and fundraising strategies for partner organizations, equipping them with compelling narratives that inspire action and build lasting connections.
Trained in creative writing and holding an MSc in Medical Anthropology, Lila grounds her work in community voice, local context, lived experience, and structural inequities. She approaches writing as a way of shifting narratives and resourcing more just futures. Her experience spans research, fundraising, strategic initiatives, and communications across justice-focused nonprofits, including partnerships in the U.S., Afghanistan, Europe, and the UK, informing a globally grounded perspective.
Lila also leads justice-informed community education, including curating "The Digital Legacy of Eugenics" at UCL and co-producing a multisensory podcast centering Global South voices. She splits her time between the U.S. South and Oxford, UK, participating in creative writing and feminist reading groups that shape her practice.
Nastacia Pereira, MPH
Research and Learning Consultant
Nastacia works across strategy, research, evaluation, and storytelling, helping organizations translate complexity into insight-driven strategies and actionable learning. As the Research and Learning Consultant at RSS, she operates at the intersection of research, monitoring, evaluation, and strategic learning, ensuring that both RSS and its partners are making data-informed decisions that lead to sustainable growth and impact. Her work connects data, lived experience, and context to support decision-making rooted in equity and systems change.
Trained in psychology and public health, Nastacia approaches research and evaluation as both analytical and interpretive practices. She specializes in community-based participatory research methods and has worked with universities, nonprofits, and philanthropic institutions examining how inequities shape health, migration, mobility, and economic development for communities of color.
Nastacia earned her undergraduate degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Agnes Scott College and her Master of Public Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Originally from Newark, New Jersey, she currently resides in Durham, North Carolina, on the contemporary and ancestral lands of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.
In addition to her consulting work, Nastacia is a multidisciplinary creative whose practice spans photography, filmmaking, and writing. Her work explores themes of Blackness, queerness, joy, and everyday life, grounded in the belief that storytelling is essential to imagining and building more just futures.
Sofía Sarmiento
Operations & Partnerships Coordinator
Sofía is an operations strategist, collaborative problem-solver, and bilingual professional dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations work more effectively through strong systems and meaningful relationships. As the Partnership & Operations Coordinator at RSS, she provides critical operational, research, and administrative support to ensure the successful execution of RSS partner engagements. This role supports the implementation of fund development strategies, grant writing processes, and communications efforts by managing systems, preparing materials, and maintaining organized workflows across multiple projects.
Sofía has been working as a bilingual assistant since her early 20s, a skill she built through self-teaching and a drive to connect with others. As a Venezuelan immigrant, her professional path has been shaped by a deep understanding of what it means to navigate new challenges from the ground up. This experience fueled her long-held goal of joining the NGO sector, where she can help others access the support and resources she once had to find for herself.
Since transitioning into administrative work in 2016, she has focused on bringing order and harmony to the teams she supports. Sofía believes that kindness is the essential ingredient that keeps a workplace safe and cohesive. She approaches her role with a rare level of honesty—meeting mistakes or obstacles with a helpful attitude and a transparent heart.
It is this commitment to being both trustworthy and human that has allowed her to build lasting relationships with her clients, who value her not just for her administrative support, but for the genuine care she brings to her work.
Consultoría estratégica
En Radical Southern Strategies, creemos que las soluciones más sólidas se construyen mediante la colaboración. Trabajamos con consultor@s de confianza cuya experiencia complementa la nuestra, lo que nos permite conformar el equipo adecuado para cada proyecto. En conjunto, hemos apoyado a organizaciones sin fines de lucro, fundaciones, coaliciones y organizaciones de movimientos sociales mediante la planificación estratégica, el desarrollo organizacional, la facilitación, el desarrollo de fondos y el apoyo al liderazgo, con un enfoque basado en la equidad y la comunidad.
Wankeeta Jackson, M.S.,
Senior Advisor
Founder, Jackson Magnolia Consulting
Wankeeta Jackson serves as Senior Advisor to Radical Southern Strategies, bringing strategic insight and specialized expertise in organizational development, philanthropy, and fund development. A strategist, storyteller, and systems thinker, she helps organizations understand the relationships, patterns, and points of connection that shape their work. Her approach strengthens fundraising strategy and organizational infrastructure while centering the well-being, capacity, and sustainability of the people doing the work. Her work recognizes that lasting organizational impact depends on the sustainability of the people carrying it.
With more than a decade of experience supporting nonprofit organizations and seven years in philanthropy, Wankeeta brings the unique perspective of both grantmaker and advisor. As the former Racial Justice Program Officer at the Foundation for Louisiana, she helped launch and manage a multi-million-dollar grant portfolio advancing racial equity, climate resilience, and community-led solutions across the Gulf South.
Through a longstanding partnership, Radical Southern Strategies and Jackson Magnolia Consulting have collaborated on strategic planning, leadership development, fundraising, and organizational capacity-building initiatives for mission-driven organizations. Their work together includes developing and facilitating a grantwriting training series for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade; designing and implementing a multi-session capacity-building series for Operation Restoration that strengthened fundraising practices and organizational sustainability among its fiscally sponsored projects; and co-leading the strategic planning process for Journey into Education and Teaching (JET), guiding staff and board members in defining the organization’s long-term vision, strategic priorities, and implementation roadmap.
Wankeeta earned a B.S. from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Human Services. She is also the founder of Women of Wakanda, a Black women-centered ecosystem created around rest, joy, healing, and collective care.
Annette Hollowell, J.D.,
Principal
The Verbena Group
Annette Hollowell is an attorney, facilitator, strategist, and community builder whose work centers Black liberation, healing, and transformational leadership. As Principal of The Verbena Group, she partners with organizations to strengthen organizational health, strategic planning, coalition building, leadership development, and community-centered facilitation.
Her approach integrates systems thinking with practices of healing, storytelling, and cultural preservation, creating spaces where organizations can reflect, reconnect, and imagine new possibilities together. Annette is also a land steward and advisor to Foxfire Ranch, her family's 80-acre cultural sanctuary in Mississippi Hill Country. There, she helps cultivate intergenerational spaces for rest, learning, artistic exchange, and community celebration while preserving the Hollowell family's century-long legacy of Black land stewardship.
RSS and The Verbena Group have partnered on a range of strategic planning, facilitation, evaluation, and movement-building engagements. Together, we co-designed and facilitated the first strategic planning process for Chicago Volunteer Doulas, led the evaluation of Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, and planned and facilitated two statewide convenings for the Vera Institute of Justice that brought together advocates, directly impacted leaders, and community partners, resulting in the creation of Louisiana's Liberty & Dignity Coalition. We continue to collaborate with Foxfire Ranch, supporting strategic planning, fundraising, communications, and organizational development to strengthen its role as a nationally recognized cultural and healing-centered space.
Consistent with her commitment to liberation, leadership development, and art as a tool for social change. Her service to organizations such as Junebug Productions, the Alluvial Collective, and the National Black Food & Justice Alliance reflects a lifelong commitment to using arts and culture as tools for community building and social transformation.
Lo que dicen nuestr@s soci@s
"Desde principios de 2022, el equipo de RSS ha apoyado a mi organización con la recaudación de fondos, la redacción de subvenciones y el desarrollo organizacional. Es un placer trabajar con un equipo dedicado de mujeres que creen en mi visión y siempre operan con integridad. Recomiendo ampliamente esta consultoría firme a las organizaciones de justicia social que buscan crecer y expandirse".
Zahara Bassett
Fundadora y CEO
Life IS Work
"He estado trabajando con Rosa desde 2019. Ella y su equipo han sido fundamentales en el crecimiento y la expansión de nuestro trabajo. El equipo de RSS nos ha apoyado con el desarrollo de programas, la evaluación, la investigación, la redacción de subvenciones, la capacitación y el pensamiento estratégico. Estoy agradecido por su inquebrantable apoyo y compromiso con nuestra misión".
Naquasia Pollard
Fundador y Directora Ejecutiva
Pure Legacee Inc.
"RSS está brindando el apoyo que nuestra organización necesita para tener éxito. Ahora tenemos la oportunidad de aprender y mejorar nuestras políticas y operaciones. El apoyo de Rosa no tiene precio. Ella nos ayuda a ver la luz y encontrar el camino cuando pensamos que no hay solución. Muchos pueden decir que representan a la comunidad inmigrante, pero pocos son verdaderos representantes y mensajeros como Rosa, quien habla de nuestras luchas desde un lugar de honestidad y justicia".
Leticia Casildo,
Fundadora y Directora Ejecutiva
Familias Unidas en Acción