About Your Facilitator, Evangeline Weiss

Evangeline believes in living a purposeful life, one that demonstrates our deepest held beliefs. For over 25 years, she has sustained leaders on a path towards intentionality, purpose, and impact. Through her vibrant workshops, participatory organizational change processes, and courageous coaching practice, she develops leadership capacity for centering gender and racial justice. Her work utilizes art, embodiment, and dialogue. Most recently, Evangeline has focused her coaching practice on supporting white people on deepening our mindset and skills for centering anti-racism in our everyday lives.

After earning a Masters’ degree in educational policy studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Evangeline has facilitated transformation in public health settings, social justice coalitions and non-profits, as well as schools and institutions of higher education. After working in HIV/AIDS prevention for 10 years, Evangeline moved to North Carolina to become the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Duke University's Office for Institutional Equity where she organized educational programs for the Health System as well as the University. In 2010, she accepted a position as the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Leadership Programs Director where she spent 10 years designing and leading programs for campaign and organizational staff and volunteer leaders. In 2016, Evangeline co-created a workshop for white women to center racial justice in their roles across their families and social justice movement roles. Today, We Are Finding Freedom is a network with over 2100 alumni. Evangeline turned her TV off in 1984 and enjoys making art and walking around. More about Evangeline here.