Facilitators

Carlos Kareem Windham

Carlos is the founder of El Porvenir Services and Co-Founder of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective.

Carlos’ career as an organizer & activist began during their sophomore year of high school. In 1988, they co-led a successful campaign to remove Coca-Cola vending machines during the international disinvestment campaign in support of South Africa’s fight for Black sovereignty and an end to apartheid. In 1994, Carlos led a student hunger strike at CU Boulder, which succeeded in establishing one of the nation’s first undergraduate Ethnic Studies degree programs.

Their revolutionary spirit has guided them through community centers, universities, music halls, board rooms, and government agencies around the world. They taught expository writing at CU, volunteered at Women’s Media Project in Kingston, Jamaica, and led the marches through the streets at the 1999 Battle in Seattle protesting the November WTO meeting.

While serving as artist-in-residence at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkley, they taught spoken-word poetry with Youth Speaks, and Hip-Hop Fusion with Loco Bloco Bataria. Additionally, they served & artistic director of Youth Music Records in Oakland, and toured as lead vocalist with Omar Sosa Octet, and 90’s Bay Area stallwards Company of Prophets under the nom de plum, Brutha Los.

For the past 12 years, Carlos has been applying the hard-won wisdom gained over a lifetime of activism and organizing; guiding non-profits, community groups, and public agencies to create more racially just outcomes. You can also find Carlos bringing down the house at comedy clubs from Portland, Oregon to Limassol, Cyprus with their irreverent, unapologetic, and highly memorable stand-up.

Carlos is also a certified trainer in the Community Resilience Model from the Trauma Resource Institute. They lead live mindfulness moments each Monday in the Strategy & Solidarity community to help get your week started with grounding, breath and intention.

Theresa Logan

Theresa is the founder of Subduction Consulting and Co-Founder of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective.

Theresa began organizing with the Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good as a high school student in Portland, Oregon in the late 90s. Following the approach of Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation, Theresa learned the power of building intentional relationships & strategic alliances, mapping power and developing actionable campaigns to pressure local government leaders to address pressing public needs. As a young organizer, she facilitated house meetings and leadership development sessions, worked on voter registration campaigns and local actions for housing justice, tax reform and health care access.

After a semester brushing up on Marxist & Leninist philosophy at the University of Havana, Cuba, Theresa continued to pursue a career advancing community wellbeing. She supported grassroots community development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Inter-American Foundation, and supported immigrant families as a parent advocate with Multicultural Community Service in Washington DC. After completing a masters degree in Conflict Analysis & Resolution at George Mason University, she returned home to Portland to help set up the Oregon Foreclosure Avoidance Program, and then facilitated public engagement and conflict resolution processes for city agencies & non-profits on staff at Resolutions Northwest.

Through her firm, Subduction Consulting, Theresa has spent the past decade working in close partnership with Carlos Kareem Windham to successfully guide community groups and workplaces in repair processes after incidents of racial harm, and to transform workplace cultures, processes & procedures to create more racially just outcomes.

Theresa is a certified trainer in the Community Resiliency Model from the Trauma Resource Institute and an assistant teacher in the Energy Body Mastery and Energy Body Clearing courses at The Last Mask Center.

Carlos Kareem Windham & Theresa Logan co-founded the Strategy & Solidarity Collective in 2024 to bring together their global networks of racial justice practitioners, artists, activists, healers and community leaders.

As a virtual global community center, the Strategy & Solidarity community app provides opportunities for our members to build community, skills, peer support networks, and effective strategy for manifesting our shared vision of a just and thriving future for all.

2025 was marked by the inaugural Strategy & Solidarity Global Summit - DEI Was Never Enough, which platformed 45 sessions on topics ranging from narrative strategy, leadership and community engagement, to mindfulness, liberatory movement and spiritual practices for activists, featuring presenters from the U.S., the UK, Mexico, Portugal, Columbia and Thailand.