Daesha Ramachandran (she/her)
Portland, Oregon
Daesha Ramachandran is the CEO + Founder of Tusk Consultants, a boutique social change consulting firm working to bring forward social, economic and environmental justice in organizational life. We help our clients tap into our collective intelligence and imagination to create new possibilities for justice and belonging to thrive.
She has made a life and a living shifting how racism, power, and oppression impact the health of individuals and communities. For the better part of 20 years Daesha has facilitated meaningful conversations and transformation on complex systems change and community engagement.
Daesha has worked with non-profits, government agencies, and companies around the world to center people on the margins of our systems to improve maternal and child health, early childhood, gender justice, violence prevention and access to basic healthcare services. Daesha is a frequent public speaker on ethical storytelling, decolonizing research & evaluation, and using human-centered design in systems change and community engagement strategies.
Daesha identifies as a first-generation South Asian queer cis-woman of color. She holds a PhD from Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University as well as a BSFS from the Edmund A. Walshe School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.