CRICKET EMIKO KAYA
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I BUILD SYSTEMS OF CARE FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
SYSTEMS DESIGNER
I create organizational systems like forests: layered, adaptive, and sustainable. Through careful assessment of existing strengths, I design systems that help mission-driven teams navigate complexity and compliance with creative confidence.
FUNDING STRATEGIST
I build funding strategies like roots: grounded, resilient, and deeply embedded in purpose. I create narrative packages,budget projections and financial procedures that boost stakeholder relationships and strengthen organizational health.
I approach writing and research like a starling: following movement and patterns to gather insight and tell clear, meaningful stories that make change irresistible.
WRITER AND RESEARCHER
Seeking sustainability in all things, I approach strategic planning as ecosystem design by mimicking the dynamic resourcefulness of our plant and animal succession planners. I align people, money, technology, and mission to strengthen financial capacity and deliver impact in fast-growing cultural museums and attractions (First Americans Museum). I am a writer empowered by words and data as a mechanism for change.
In practice I help fundraising teams develop essential tools, train collaboratively, and iterate as we go. I create data models that demonstrate this change, allowing stakeholders to feel empowered by their decisions. I craft assets and narrative packages that deliver results and mission-driven engagement that brings fundraising into the 21st century. In my current role, I specialize in grant fundraising and management ($1M grant revenue/ year) and institutional budget oversight and creation ($10M+/year).
I research and write about social movements and change, a process that guides my leadership and relationships. I'm fascinated by the way people move and create movements. I believe work must steward the emotional and physical well-being of its organisms, shifting and changing as we do.
"There is always enough time to do the right work."
adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy