- Who we are
Liberation By Design ® is focused on the unique experience of Black Womxn in the workforce and supporting our journey towards healing and freedom. We believe that Black Womxn are the key to world healing, because, given our existence at the intersections of multiple identities made marginal by our societal structures– if we are not free, no one is. Our mission is to co-design embodied, wholistic workplace cultures that center, sustain and avow Black Womxn’s liberation, dreaming, and inherent enoughness. We achieve this work through communing Black Womxn in affinity spaces that center healing, working with organizations to transform culture through understanding Anti-Blackness and how to advance Black liberation, and participating in public speaking engagements that uplift liberatory work structures and practices.
About The Owner
Diamond Lee, MSW, is a racial equity advocate, coach, therapist, and consultant. She is the founder and principal consultant of Liberation By Design ®, LLC. Diamond Lee facilitates individual, community, and systems-level interventions that focus on impacting Black women and involve leading participatory processes that share power and decision-making with systems-impacted people and communities. She has extensive experience managing a portfolio of projects that leverage government, philanthropic, and community resources toward that end.
Diamond Lee has conducted equity audits, led organizational capacity-building projects, and facilitated the development of racial equity strategic plans for several organizations and initiatives. In collaboration with community partners, Diamond co-created and implemented a racial equity framework for the Los Angeles County Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) Initiative. She played an integral role as one of the founding leaders of the Los Angeles County African American Infant and Maternal Mortality (AAIMM) Prevention Initiative. Also, she co-founded and currently co-facilitates two lived experience advisory bodies to share policy and program design decision-making power with institutional leaders.
She is committed to strengthening her purpose and practice by integrating ancestral healing and spiritual practices into her mission to advance the liberation of Black people.
Diamond received her M.S.W. from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in English and History from Emory University. She enjoys traveling, hanging with her dog, Benji, spending time with family and friends, and practicing the healing arts.