What We Do
Cities + People is a boutique firm owned by women of color, specializing in evaluation, organizational development, and strategic design. Our work is rooted in equitable, beneficiary-centered principles. By partnering with you, we strive to enhance your impact and guide you toward your ultimate goals. Our aim is to equip you with the tools and confidence needed to create transformative change.
“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.”
Land Acknowledgement
Ohlone peoples inhabited what we now know as the Bay Area for thousands of years. ‘Ohlone’ is a loose term used to name the dozens of indigenous groups, with distinct dialects, that have lived and given to this land before European invasion. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present, and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.
The County of Los Angeles recognizes occupies land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present, and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide, and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing, and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County. We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.