About Soapbox Strategy Collective
We provide tailored trainings and consultation services for seasoned advocacy groups, early stage start-ups, and organizations committed to fostering theory-of-change frameworks that measurably support systematically marginalized people.
Our mission is to support social-equity driven organizations in co-designing strategic planning practices and responsive mobilization tactics that advance sustainable, system-level social change and innovation.
Our work is grounded in the principles of racial, gender, and economic justice as a reflection of our commitment to embedding an equity framework within each Soapbox Project.
Meet the Team
We are a collective of dexterous, multi-faceted organizers with expertise in policy writing and research, people systems, website optimization, and message amplification strategies. We are not only looking to serve communities impacted by severe levels of inequity and oppression, we are products of those communities. And that’s why we’re here to help.
Niyah White
Niyah White is the Founder of Soapbox Strategy Collective (Soapbox), a social impact consulting agency that develops customized tools, people systems, and digital mobilization strategies to advance progressive, community-centered advocacy campaigns and social equity initiatives. Niyah has served as a multi-state digital advocacy strategist, creative communications consultant, decarceration policy analyst, and large-scale coalition manager.
To date, she has led and supported policy campaigns and social-impact research in Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, and California. These campaigns include but are not limited to modernizing the California Food Retail Code to include street vendors in the formal food economy, organizing state legislators to pass expanded parole reform in Mississippi, and passing legislation to convert abandoned commercial lots into affordable housing units.
Perennially inspired by her Afro-Korean background and multicultural upbringing in the American South, Niyah brings a deep passion for relational organizing and shared liberation.
Say hello at niyah@soapboxstrategy.co!
Nia joins Soapbox with over 10 years of professional community and digital organizing experience. In 2018, Nia launched Swing Left’s first youth organizing program and currently serves as the Senior Director of Distributed Organizing for Swing Left and Vote Forward.
Previous to Swing Left, Nia served as a deputy field organizer and statewide youth organizer for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia. Her innovative organizing and power-building work continues to be at the forefront of national-scale mobilization strategies for both electoral and issue-based advocacy campaigns.
Say hello at nia@soapboxstrategy.co!
Sherry Chiang
Sherry is a designer specializing in branding, interaction design, and data driven user testing. She is passionate about addressing various problems relating to social wellbeing and addressing achievement gaps in education. She regularly shares knowledge about career and academic resources, organizational and soft skills, and building networks.
As a person, she seeks out learning in all forms, and engages in long and short term goal-setting to meet expectations, and persist through challenges in her professional and personal life. Beyond that, she is constantly reminded of her roots as a first gen Chinese & Taiwanese American and loves little more in life than delicious vegetarian food. She also loves people, so don’t hesitate to reach out and say hi.
Say hello at sherry@soapboxstrategy.co!
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