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About Shadiin Garcia

Shadiin Garcia is Chicana and Laguna Pueblo and has worked for over 20 years as a teacher, as a public school administrator, researcher, a policy analyst, Indigenous education leader, and as a consultant. She has a Bachelor's Degree from Yale University in English with a specialization in education; a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership and a PhD in Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education from the University of Oregon. Shadiin has a huge extended family including college and elementary aged children, 59 first cousins, and 29 aunts and uncles.

Shorelines reference a natural confluence of water and land.

Shadiin's work centers on organizational change; culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum; diversity, equity, and belonging; educational and systemic equity; culturally appropriate research; and community driven systemic change. She served as the Deputy Director of Policy and Research at Oregon’s Chief Education Office where she helped develop a research agenda driven by culturally appropriate practices and Indigenous methodologies for improving key educational outcomes. She served as the Director of Educator Advancement Council leading initiatives to diversify the educator workforce and improve teacher educator systems. With funding from Meyer Memorial Trust, she launched Oregon's statewide American Indian/Alaska Native Educational Professional Learning Community. Most recently she served as an Executive Vice President at Metropolitan Group leading their Organizational Strategy and Innovation Practice.

Through her work both professionally and personally, she has cultivated a network of amazing people who navigate across multiple systems and spaces public, private, sovereign nations/tribes, non-profit, government, P-20, higher education and more. She often collaborates within these networks of experts, thinkers, and advocates which bring multiple minds and approaches to bear on complex topics.  

In starting her own consultant business, she chose a name that is congruent with her values — sovereignty, solidarity, and community. Shorelines reference a natural confluence of water and land. It evokes an ever-changing landscape that offers multiple access points into the geography. She believes that like our shores, our systems of education and organizations must offer myriad opportunities and options for people that honor the unique interests, cultures, languages, and aspirations of each individual and/or community. Shadiin uses that concept to ground her work — by believing in co-constructing solutions grounded in equity and local context. 

Services

Shoreline Consulting believes in harnessing the strengths and assets that already exist in your organization, community or partnership and building from there. We co-construct solutions and strategies that align with your goals, and leverage the voices, perspective, and wisdom of those who stand to benefit.  

Services for Any Organizational Context

  • Facilitation – small and large group

  • Mission Development and Clarification

  • Communities of Practice (Professional Learning Communities)

  • Strategic visioning and articulation

  • Vision Articulation

  • Design and facilitate communities of practice

  • Conference Planning

  • Strength Based Community Engagement

  • Policy "Translation"

  • Program Development

  • Strategic Planning and assessments

  • Program Implementation

  • Equity Assessments

  • Structural, Systemic, and Organizational Racism

  • Privilege, Power, and Positionality

  • Social Justice

  • Landscape Scans

  • Operationalizing Equity

  • Writing (reports, op-eds, one-pagers)

  • Implicit Bias in Hiring and Retention

  • Organizational Climate

  • Stakeholder Collaboration

  • Culturally Appropriate Research and Program Evaluation

  • Board Development

  • Leadership Coaching

  • Network leveraging

  • Speech Writing

  • Motivational Speaker

Education-Specific Services

  • Facilitating Professional Development

  • Culturally Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining Pedagogy and Content

  • Intensive Coaching and Counsel to District Leadership

  • Strategic Planning

  • Harnessing Student and Family Voice

  • Racial Consciousness Building

  • Developing Climate and Curriculum Initiatives

  • Work/Focus Group Facilitation

  • Family/Community Engagement and Outreach Support

  • Critical Practices for Anti-bias education

  • Facilitating Critical Conversations

  • Curriculum Development

  • Advancing College/school-level Efforts to Diversity Faculty and Staff

  • Developing and Implementing Institutional Strategies, initiatives and communications regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • Educator Preparation Content Development

  • Educator Preparation Program Guidance

  • Educator Licensing Guidance

  • Pre-service Teacher Professional Development

  • American Indian/Alaska Native Educational Practices

Shoreline Consulting services are applicable to a wide range of contexts, including:

K-12 schools • Institutions of higher education • Non-profit organizations • Community organizing efforts • Sovereign Nations/Tribes • City government • Elected officials • Rural leaders • Philanthropy • State government systems • Cross-sector systems

COURSES

FEATURED PROJECTS

The Racial Justice Institute from 2021-2023 offered learning that centers the experiences of racially, ethnically, or linguistically diverse educators serving Oregon’s Pre-K to 12 students. Funded by Oregon’s Student Success Act, the Institute provided culturally and racially affirming learning environments for educators in order to address race-based isolation and fatigue and grow educators’ capacity to support, lift up, and collaboratively work with teachers, students, and families in their schools and communities.

Leadership is as complex and dynamic as the people, communities, and situations that call it into being. The inspiration and action that drive change are both individual and collective. Yet dominant culture and systems continue to perpetuate an “individual hero” narrative. That narrative often shuts out the very people who are closest to issues and who possess the seeds of innovation, resilience, and transformation to solve them.

Project Examples

Click on different categories below to see the full range of work.

Dive-In-Justice Podcast

Dive-In-Justice podcast cover

The Dive-In-Justice podcast with Shadiin Garcia and Delma Jackson is about building ideal communities with our less than ideal selves. Watch the video trailer here.

From systemic injustice to internalized oppression, apathy, and trauma, Shadiin Garcia, Delma Jackson, and guests will pull back the layers of struggle within social progress, and dream together, even as we remind one another that our personal tragedies, triumphs, and healing will inform our ability to create a better world. Subscribe on Patreon.