Rose Waterstone Bio & Approach

Rose is a community-centric nonprofit founder, facilitator, director, and consultant. They have over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit & mission-driven business sectors, specializing in organizations that provide equitable & healing programs at the intersection of racial and gender justice. Most notably, they co-founded the organization Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) when they were 24 years old, and served in many roles over the next 14 years, as they grew Y-WE from the roots up. Y-WE is now a thriving community of belonging that offers transformative programs for hundreds of people each year, centering BIPOC young women.  When they co-founded Y-WE, they did so from a place of love—love for their newborn daughter and rising generations of young people; love for building multi-generational, multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-racial communities; and a deep belief that working to build equitable communities of belonging is an expression of love for humanity. 

In their consulting practice, Rose roots all their work in listening to the stories, needs, and wisdom of the people and places at the heart of each organization’s mission. With a commitment to being of service, Rose works to foster equitable, collaborative, compassionate and healthy organizations where the people working for and being supported by the mission can thrive. As a queer, white, Eastern European, Jewish practitioner who primarily works with BIPOC centered organizations, they strive to name and transform oppression-centered thought, privilege, and supremacy within themselves and the communities they support. Rose believes there are ways of being and doing business that embrace individuals, communities, and the land with dignity, respect, and liberation at the center of our priorities. They are most experienced in:

  • Intergenerational & intercultural community building

  • Grassroots non-profit management  

  • Equitable hiring, transparent pay structures, and values-based HR practices

  • Collaborative leadership staff design & decision making  

  • Strategic planning and big picture visioning

  • Curriculum design for & facilitation of anti-racist white caucus spaces 

  • Developing new organizations, programs and partnerships 

  • Writing: mission/vision/values; grants; strategic communications; poetry

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ROSE WATERSTONE WORK SUMMARY PRIOR TO CONSULTING

2010-2022: Founder and Co-Executive Director of Young Women Empowered. Built the org from 1 program for 40 youth, to a thriving $3,000,000+ nonprofit that provides services for hundreds of youth and community members annually, centering BIPOC young women.

2010-2015: Grant writer, fundraiser & educator for orgs including Camp Korey, Sno-Valley Tilth, and PYE Global

2002-2010: Facilitator & Youth Worker of nonprofit & school-based programs that build equity, creativity, social justice and healing. Orgs have included: Girls Inc, The Power of Hope, The Boys & Girls Club, Seattle Girls School, and many elementary, middle & high schools. 

Awards Include: Kathryn Wasserman Davis Award for Peace in 2007 & Seattle Met Magazine “Emerging Leader” in 2015

Relevant Education & Trainings Include: Anti-Racist White Consultants Community of Practice with Embodying Racial Justice (2022-23); Racing to Equity’s 9 month Leadership Institute for Equity Guardians (2021-22); Executive Leadership Coaching & White Caucus Training with Tami L. Farber (2021-2023); PYE Global’s CF 1 & 2 trainings (3x) & participation in the Confluence gathering for Global Creative Facilitators in Egypt as well as multiple facilitator education & collaboration gatherings. BA in Peace & Global Studies from Earlham College, graduated Phi Betta Kappa (2007)