LaRae Cantley
Amplify speaker profile
Areas of Expertise: Advocacy, social justice, housing justice, systems change, community engagement, “edutainment”, and diversity, equity, and inclusion
Bio: LaRae Cantley is an advocate, facilitator, social justice activist, community leader, and relationship builder. She leverages social justice activism through consultation and partnerships with government, nonprofit, community academics, philanthropy, and businesses servicing human dignity. She is the Senior Manager of Community & Wellbeing with the Full Frame Initiative where she led a team of people with lived experience to author the Community Bill of Rights. She curates opportunities such as the Housing Justice LA podcast that infuses and operationalizes the vital element of the voice representation of people who are most proximate to the harms of inequities in order to co-create designs for regenerative policies, programs, and services. LaRae has lived experience at the intersection of many of our systems and brings a passion and commitment to seeing people as whole and recognizing and tapping into their talents, skills, and tremendous gifts. LaRae enjoys artistic expression to uplift and encourage thought as a means of liberation.
Experience:
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Independent Consultant and Coach with Cantley & Associates, aka Care Out Loud, 2010 – present
- Fellow with the Domestic Violence Homeless Services Coalition, 2018 – present
- Senior Manager Centering Community and Wellbeing with the Full Frame Initiative 2021- present
- Webinar presenter “Thriving and surviving after a medical diagnosis: Strategies for patients and providers” – National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, 2022
- Workshop presenter at Putting Care at the Center, 2022
- Member of the Alliance for Health Policy’s National Public Health Emergency Flexibilities Policy Working Group, 2022
- Recipient of the Downtown Women’s Center “Every Woman Award”, 2022
- Recipient of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence’s “Bravery Award”, 2022
- Trainer/Facilitator “Storytelling to advise design with the people in heart & mind”, 2021
- Racial Equity Facilitator with the Corporation For Supportive Housing, 2019 to 2020
- Host of the Housing Justice LA podcast, 2020
- Panelist on Downtown Women’s Center: Women & Homelessness in LA, 20202
- Panelist “The Truth Behind Mental Health and Homelessness. Which Comes First?”, 2020
- Consumer spotlight: A busy and exciting end to 2021, 2022