Faith Garnett, MS, Senior Analyst, generates insights and foundational knowledge about equity-focused strategies through qualitative research, training, group facilitation, and community engagement. She is a critical thinker and incisive writer who strategically partners with organizations interested in systems transformation and organizational effectiveness to operationalize racial equity at the enterprise scale. Faith has experience developing and practicing equitable, community-centered data practices and applies this experience across all the phases of research and evaluation, from question development to data collection and analysis. She is skilled in planning and conducting interviews and focus groups and designing surveys. One of the strengths is her proficiency and experience in teaching communities about racial equity and conflict analysis and resolution.
Before joining Community Science, Faith spent time at the Center for Equity and Inclusion as a Racial Equity Fellow, which gave her the opportunity to develop her capacity to advance organizational equity through data-informed practices. She partnered with one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the US addressing food insecurity, with an expansive network of over 150 food banks serving 46 million people; as well as a state government agency working to reduce poverty and increase access to stable housing. Some of Faith’s other notable accomplishments include providing executive coaching to Black leaders who were navigating the weighty emotional labor that come with doing equity work, especially when under-resourced; and, authoring publications about conflict resolution at the intersection of race and other social identities in the workplace and the experience of navigating professional nonprofit spaces as a person of color.
Faith has a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. Personally, Faith draws inspiration from the tradition and practice enshrined in Dr. Mary McCloud Bethune’s reading of her last living testament, “10 principles for Black people to live by,” where Dr. McLeod bequeathed not her material wealth, but her enriched life experiences. Faith enjoys reading, photography and creative arts, video editing and vlogging, and cooking and fine dining experiences.