Sian (pronounced Shan) is an organizer, facilitator, evaluator, and fundraiser within social justice organizations focused on economic justice and racial justice for over fifteen years. Trained in transformative organizing through Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), Sian brings an intersectional, Black feminist perspective to her movement-building work. Sian is a founding Steering Committee member of Cooperation New Orleans Loan Fund and Co-Director of the Giving Project Network. Raised in the U.S. South with Afro-Caribbean and Irish family roots, she lives with her partner and daughters in New Orleans.

Sian works with Social Insights on mixed-methods and participatory projects centering racial, gender, and reproductive justice including power-building initiatives with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the HIVE reproductive justice program with CompassPoint and the Packard Foundation.