Meet our team of consultants
Our Feet Only Walk Forward.
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Founder + Principal
Will Cordery (he/him) is a well-regarded philanthropic advisor and social justice advocate, recognized for his extensive work in institutional and family philanthropy that advances racial, economic, and LGBTQ+ justice. He is the founder and principal of Freedom Futures, a philanthropic advisory firm moving money to the frontlines of social transformation. As a firm, Freedom Futures provides advisory, consulting, coaching, and strategy development services to clients across the public and private sectors, including foundations, nonprofit organizations, family philanthropies, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
Will has held several roles in institutional philanthropy. Will is a senior advisor to Liberated Capital, a funding initiative of the Decolonizing Wealth Project, and has previously directed the Reparative Action Fund at the Satterberg Foundation, which allocated $50 million to Black and Indigenous communities. Will’s institutional philanthropic grantmaking includes working with Marguerite Casey Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund.
Will serves as a board member for the Hill-Snowdon Foundation as one of its first non-family trustees. He is also a 2024 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and a 2025 - 2027 National Center for Family Philanthropy Fellow.
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Facilitator & Consultant
Kris Grey (they/she/he) is a New York City-based transgender artist whose social practice work centers on building communities of affinity and bridging cultural differences. Certified in Visual Thinking Strategies and trained in Empathic Facilitation, Grey blends professional development techniques with visual arts training to empower non-profit organizations and support leadership teams. Grey co-founded and co-directed Gender/Power, LLC from 2013-2023. Over a decade, Gender/Power evolved into a workshop and teaching methodology that employed storytelling, personal narrative, and movement prompts, to question and reveal the dynamics of power in relationship to gender and gender perception. Their expertise in interrupting bias and strengthening group cohesion supports Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives across disciplines. As a faculty member, Kris teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, integrating facilitation techniques to transform the pedagogy of visual art critique. With over 20 years of experience in arts non-profit administration, higher education, organising/activism, healthcare reform, and museum education – including their role as Director of Education and Visitor Experience at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art – Grey has solidified their commitment to fostering inclusive and equitable practices.
You can check out their consulting work at Grey Area Consulting.
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Operations Manager
Khadya Hale (she/her) is the Founder and CEO of Khadya Hale, Online Business Management with a passion for optimizing efficiency that drives impactful change for organizations leading social impact initiatives. With over 17 years of experience and a rich background in business process optimization, she brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, technical expertise, and a collaborative approach to every project.
Khadya has a B.S.B.A along with certifications in Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship and Social Media Management. With a track record of success from her time in the Marine Corps to supporting organizations like A Place for Heroes, Inc, DigiGeeks Collective, the City of Charlotte, and Community Learning Partnership, she is dedicated to helping BIPOC organizations and nonprofits flourish while empowering them to achieve operational excellence.
Khadya believes in the transformative power of streamlined operations and the profound impact it can have on an organization's ability to create lasting positive change. Her collaborative and empathetic approach ensures that every solution is not only effective but also resonates with the core values of the organizations she serves.
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Movement Strategist
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson (she/her) is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian) woman from the working class, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of Highlander Research & Education Center. As a member of leadership teams in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), Ash-Lee has contributed to the Vision for Black Lives and BREATHE Act. She has served on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly, the advisory committee of National Bailout Collective. She is a long-time activist who has worked in movements fighting for workers, for reproductive justice, LGBTQUIA+, environmental justice etc.
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Executive Assistant
Our Administrative Assistant provides internal and client-facing support; including correspondence with the bank/family office and grantee partners and ensuring all necessary relevant information so that wires are processed properly; compiling and organizing all wire instructions, gift notifications, and gift acknowledgments to ensure contributions are processed and accounted; and maintaining internal trackers to keep a record on the progress of attaining needed information.
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Money Coach
Wazi Maret (he/they) is a coach, resource mobilizer, and artist with Southern and working-class roots who supports individuals and communities in their capacity to transform, heal, and expand into their power and embodied leadership. With nearly 15 years working in social movements, the non-profit sector, and as a connector in philanthropy, Wazi uses a relational and community-centered approach to deepen connection, mobilize resources, and strengthen entire movement ecosystems. They have played numerous roles to support social justice movements, from cultural organizing to fundraising, organizational development, facilitation, and more. Some of Wazi's partners have included the Trans Justice Funding Project, the Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project, Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, Movement for Black Lives, and many more.
Wazi is a certified coach through the Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation (CHJL) Program and provides coaching support that is rooted in intuition, ancestral wisdom and centers support for folks in their personal transformation, executive leadership, development/fundraising, and donor organizing aimed at redistributing wealth to support liberation work in the US and globally.
As a multi-dimensional human who finds great joy and passion in bringing his many worlds together, Wazi is committed to deepening his creative practice as central to who he is and how he finds freedom. Wazi is a DJ, music producer and co-founder of Tender Bois Club, a music and creative production house focused on multi-media storytelling for social impact. They are also the development director and producer at Comfrey Films, a Black TGNCI-centered film production house.
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Advisor
Dahnesh Medora (he/him) is a Senior Fellow at the Western States Center and a consultant to social change leaders and organizations building infrastructure for social change and working across differences. For more than 20 years, Dahnesh has held different leadership roles in the philanthropic and broader nonprofit sector including the Meyer Memorial Trust and Nonprofit Association of Oregon in Portland and the National Community Development Institute and Tides Center in Oakland and San Francisco respectively.
In these and other roles, he helped create and manage multimillion dollar grantmaking programs aimed at building power in communities of color, provided leadership and capacity building support to a wide range of social change organizations and cultivated public-private collaborations at the federal, state and local levels.
Dahnesh currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Building Movement Project and has served on a number of other boards including Fund the People, the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the Berkeley Community Fund. Dahnesh’s family immigrated from India to Montana which sparked a lifelong passion for bridging differences and culture. When not at work he enjoys spending time with his daughter, who is still young enough to think he is hilarious.
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Graphic Design Lead
Engin Markus Ulker (he/him) is a queer immigrant creative whose work lives at the intersection of graphic design, data, and social change. Currently pursuing a Master of Science in Data Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, Engin holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Ege University in Turkey. Their unique path spanning the sciences, creative arts, and social impact shapes a multidisciplinary approach that’s both analytical and deeply human.
Engin is a passionate graphic designer specializing in bold, purpose-driven visuals that amplify marginalized voices and community-led movements. With expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, motion graphics, and visual storytelling, they create engaging content systems for nonprofits, small businesses, and queer-led brands through their creative studio, Engin Pixels.
Their commitment to community is long-standing: Engin has volunteered with children on the autism spectrum, developing patience-centered communication and learning strategies, and has contributed to environmental restoration efforts with the Mediterranean Conservation Society supporting biodiversity and sustainable land practices.
Whether designing for justice, analyzing social media data, or building inclusive visual narratives, Engin infuses every project with care, intention, and a deep love for liberation.
Testimonials
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Decolonizing Wealth Project
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“Will and the team at Freedom Futures have been leading our work to stand up the Reparative Action Fund, Satterberg Foundation’s first national grantmaking strategy aimed at returning money to the frontlines of Black and Indigenous social movements. They have brought vision, experience, relationships, heart and focus to the work with our entire staff and board. We as an organization and a family board continue to learn alongside this reparative philanthropic approach. We are inspired by this partnership and deeply thankful.”
Sarah Walczyk
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"Freedom Futures moves with purpose and a vision of liberation for everyone. Through supporting Decolonizing Wealth Project’s grantmaking fund, Liberated Capital, Freedom Futures brings both lived experience and deep relationships across social movements to our reparative giving efforts. We consider Will and Freedom Futures deeply-aligned partners."
Edgar Villanueva
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“We’ve been on a healing journey with Will and Freedom Futures both to redistribute money back to Southern communities as well as open up new ways of being together as a family. This journey is rooted in addressing our family's history of generating wealth in and from the south. We believe that our work with Freedom Futures is going to have long lasting impacts on our family both now and for generations to come.”
The Milliken Family
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"Freedom Futures has deepened my understanding of social movements and how to show up responsibly and respectfully when supporting social movements for racial justice in the United States. Further, the Freedom Futures’ team has been key to developing my leadership to organize my family successfully."
Ren Short
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