Asha Carter (she/her) is a facilitator, liberatory strategist, yoga instructor, and Founder-Owner of Cambium Collective. Her commitment to liberation was cultivated deeply by her grandmother, a daughter of sharecroppers who was able to preserve and pass on her love for the land.
Asha began her career supporting youth led environmental justice organizing in Boston and developing state and local agricultural policy in Atlanta, Georgia. She went on to serve in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama administration and worked to defend the agency against Congressional attacks. Later, during her time as the Food Justice Strategist at DC Greens, she organized with community leaders most impacted by food insecurity to build power to impact policy at the city level. Asha is the former Deputy Director of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, and continues to support black queer and trans land stewards to build community, resources, and power together through the Black Mycelium Project. She is the former Co-Chair of the Chesapeake Foodshed Network, and sat on its Community Ownership, Empowerment & Prosperity (COEP) Action Team.
Asha has expertise in organizational development, relational organizing, and uncovering where liberatory systems analysis meets praxis. She is an alumna of Wellesley College, where she earned her B.A. in Peace and Justice Studies with a concentration in Urban Development and Sustainability.
Dominique Hazzard is a public historian, community organizer, strategic planner, a doctoral candidate in History at the Johns Hopkins University and a professor of Black Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses include African American intellectual history, environmental history, food history, and the the history of American cities in the 20th century.
As the Principal Researcher of Oyster Knife Collective LLC, Dominique leads historical interpretation at The Well at Oxon Run, a new urban farm and wellness space in Southeast DC. She recently co-curated the award-winning Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington exhibition at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.
Dr. Sade Anderson (she/her) is a mother, racial justice organizer, facilitator, and member of Black Dirt Farm Collective which focuses on reconnecting Black people throughout the African Diaspora back to land through ancestral ways of remembering, being, and living.
Dr. Anderson’s food justice and sovereignty work in Wards 7 & 8 of the nation’s capital culminated in her doctoral dissertation entitled Black Food Matters: Surviving Anti-Blackness and Food Insecurity in Washington, D.C.
Sade has ample experience building connections and relationships across multiple identities through gardening, cooking, political education, strategic design/planning, as well as facilitation & training.
Meet Our Team
CAMBIUM
Who We Are
Organizational Development Consultants & Facilitators Serving Mission-Driven Organizations Nationwide
Based in Washington, DC and serving nonprofits, foundations, and social justice organizations across the United States, Cambium Collective is a team of experienced facilitators, liberatory strategists, and equity-centered organizational development consultants. We specialize in supporting organizations experiencing leadership transitions, team conflicts, strategic planning challenges, and the complex work of aligning practices with values.
Our Approach to Liberatory Organizational Change
Whether your team is stuck after a conflict, your board and staff aren't aligned, or you're navigating burnout in your nonprofit team, Cambium Collective offers trauma-informed facilitation and anti-racist consulting grounded in an understanding of power dynamics and liberation.
We believe that to grow a just and equitable world, we need approaches to organizational change that lead to the transformation of ourselves, the places where we work, and the communities where we live. By doing this necessary healing work, it becomes easier for people to have their voices heard, to work at our fullest potential, and to create sustainable communities where everyone's needs are met.
Our team provides comprehensive organizational development for nonprofits, retreat facilitation for social justice orgs, strategic planning for mission-driven teams, and equity-centered consulting. We specialize in supporting food justice organizations, BIPOC-led nonprofts, faith-based organizations, land-based groups, and foundations working toward systemic change.
Meet Our Team:
Facilitators with Deep Movement Experience
Our collective brings together decades of experience in nonprofit consulting, anti-racist organizing, regenerative agriculture, conflict transformation, and food systems work. A Black-led consulting collective, each team member combines deep expertise in liberatory organizational development with lived experience in the movements and communities we serve. We are deeply intwined with unraveling the challenges facing social justice organizations, community-based nonprofits, and mission-driven teams working for liberation.