Governance, innovation, and strategy for mission-led organizations.
I’m Hadassah Damien, and I help nonprofits, foundations, startups, and public-interest teams build their governance and capacity to adapt to change, work impactfully, and use AI and technology responsibly without losing sight of what they’re there to do. Learn what I do and how I consult here.
I also make a podcast on career and life changes, teach about money, and generally use design thinking to help purpose-driven people make discerned decisions in uncertainty. Here’s my short work history, and this is a wide and wild career story and cv.
Get in touch at hd [at] hadassahdamien.com, or book 30 minutes to chat if you want to consider working together.
15+ years working inside mission-led, self-organizing, enterprise innovation labs, and public-interest organizations as a strategist, researcher, coach, and facilitator has given me perspective on how meaningful work gets done, what transformation requires, and where people get stuck.
I now work with organizations on:
- AI governance and policy [even if you’re meh on AI, you need this]
- Innovation programs for tech-based services, progressive policies, and economic justice
- Organizational governance in horizontal and democratic workplaces
- Team and leadership coaching
- Cohort trainings on money
Read more about working with me here.
I started Femmetech as a blog in 2012 as a queer femme technologist and history researcher learning my way into the tech industry.
“Femtech” has since become an industry term, but to me this name still means something else: a queer approach to technology means balancing the importance of democratizing access to technology and its benefits with applied digital security, data ethics, limiting surveillance, and clear discernment about who’s making decisions.