JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) Consultant
Strategic Thinking for Organizational Transformation
L Tantay supports individuals, organizations, and agencies to create sustainable practices promoting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI)

Services
Strategic Planning
SMART, goal-oriented planning that includes sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and measuring success.
Process Facilitation
Holding generative meeting or retreat spaces for teams and groups to move you towards your objectives in a humanistic way.
Capacity Support and Coaching
Offering JEDI-infused 1-on-1 or team consultation to optimize organizational effectiveness and wellness, including coaching, tool development, and policy advisement.
In-Person and Virtual Workshops
Improving understanding around race, gender, sexuality, and other identities to foster humanity in all working environments.
Applied Theatre Interventions
Utilizing interactive and creative activities to promote dialogue, encourage innovation, and visualize solutions.
TESTIMONIALS
ABOUT
L Tantay supports individuals, organizations, and agencies through difficult processes of social justice transformation and growth. Utilizing anti-racist and applied theatre practices, L creates spaces for strategic thinking and open dialogue.
Approaches
L received their Masters in Applied Theatre at CUNY School of Professional Studies where they learned how to use the reflective and transformative power of theatre to create opportunities for growth and change. Paulo Freire and his Pedagogy of the Oppressed is central to applied theatre, recognizing that oppression can only be defeated through raising consciousness utilizing the values of faith, hope, trust, and love. Through applied theatre, L is able to create facilitated spaces for honest and open discussions.
Throughout their career, L has worked tirelessly to dismantle racism in systems and structures that continued to perpetuate racial inequity. Their work as Acting Director of the Race to Justice Management Team helped them recognize that racism must always be central to conversations of injustice and inequity, undergirding and intersecting with all oppressions. Collaborating with organizations such as RaceForward, the Interaction Institute for Social Change, Decolonizing Therapy, and the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, L learned key ways to operationalize anti-racist practices and key measures for social justice.
Since high school, L has been a health educator, primarily about sexuality, gender, and diversity. In college, L received professional training to be a health educator and has since expanded that knowledge through training with multiple experts, including the Transgender Training Institute, Cicatelli Associates, the CDC, and NDRI. They have used their expansive understanding of sexuality and gender to train and provide technical assistance to agencies, organizations, and professionals across NYC, NY state, and NJ.
L has managed a number of programs supporting community organizing and development. In various roles – from Board Member to coordinator to facilitator – L has led multiple programs utilizing identity-based self-reflection for community building. Blending applied theatre and counseling techniques, L developed groups and programs for many communities, particularly among BIPOC LGBTQ+ people and Filipino/AAPI youth. L has supported multiple actions and organizing spaces, including GAPIMNY (the Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of NY) and FAHSI (Filipino American Health Services, Inc.) in NYC. They also used their talents as a co-manager for the only transgender/GNC/NB intergenerational theatre troupe in NYC – the TransGenerational Theatre Project.
Experience
20+ years of experience in public health and healthcare, which includes:
- Working in clinical and social service settings
- Anti-racist organizing and community development
- Training others for community empowerment and anti-racist institutional transformation
- Strategic planning, goal setting, and project management
- Program and curriculum development for youth serving organizations and agencies
Presentations and panels for:
- NYC Bar Association
- PrideWorks Westchester
- The National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) Conference
- Rockland County School Districts
- NY Presbyterian Hospital Network
- Asian American / Asian Research Institute
- NYKnows Network
Organizational collaborations with:
- RaceForward and the Governmental Alliance for Racial Equity (GARE)
- The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- The Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity
- Interaction Institute for Social Change
- People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
- Decolonizing Therapy
- APICHA Community Health Center
- Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
- Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
- NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
- NYC Commission on Human Rights
- NYC Department of Social Services

“This symbol comes from the Kalinga people – an indigenous group of people in the Philippines – and is used in batok, which is traditional ceremonial tattooing. It represents the scorpion, which is given to fierce warriors to show their strength. I was born under the zodiac sign of Scorpio, and its primary symbol is a giant scorpion. As an astrological sign, the scorpion represents many things – including sex, death, and inevitable change. It represents passion and the generative spirit, finding innovation in pain and darkness. I’ve found a way to channel my own pain into growth. The path of justice is difficult, painful and yet inevitable to ensure equity for all. Using passion and creativity, I hope to bring this change to the world.”
L Tantay
Contact
For any service inquiries, please contact L at l@ltantay.com. Please include:
- Your name
- Email address and/or phone number
- Pronouns (optional)
- Organization or business (optional)
- A brief description of the project