Who We Are
Meet our Co-Founders & Co-Presidents
Janelle & Jeff have been collaborating for almost two decades and share a common belief: that working together, we can create work cultures where everyone can thrive!
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Janelle Williams Melendrez is the co-founder and co-president of (R)EVOLVE Consulting, Inc. Janelle has designed and facilitated anti-bias, inter\intra-group relations building, implicit bias, cultural proficiency, and team building training with thousands of participants. Over the span of more than two decades, she has facilitated workshops with colleges and universities, K-12 institutions, community organizations, non-profit groups, arts and entertainment organizations, social service agencies, medical personnel, and law enforcement professionals. Williams Melendrez has a Master’s degree in Counseling with an emphasis in multiculturalism and cross-cultural education. It is this educational background that informs her practice in helping people work through the often challenging discussions around inclusion, identity, anti-Blackness, equity, and social justice. She currently serves as the Executive Officer of Equity and Engagement at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. She is a respected educator, professional developer, and conference speaker. She is the co-founder and co-president of (R)EVOLVE Consulting.
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Jeffrey S. Bucholtz is the co-founder and co-president of (R)EVOLVE Consulting, Inc. For the past 18 years, Jeff has consulted, designed, facilitated, and provided curriculum, workshops & keynotes with/for hundreds of thousands of individuals in the fields of equity & inclusion, sexual violence, stereotypes/bias, masculinity, popular culture, relationship violence, stalking, bullying, cross-sector collaboration, and the intersectionality of oppression. For 13 years Jeff has served as director of We End Violence, a violence prevention social business providing training, curriculum, digital education, strategic planning, and consulting, for the U.S. Armed Forces, higher education, healthcare, law enforcement, government, and non-profits. He also served 4 years as president of the San Diego Domestic Violence Council, a county-wide cross-sector collaborative body, where he practiced inter-agency collaboration, strategic planning, communication, and media engagement. Jeff is an award winning adjunct faculty member at Southwestern College, teaches a course on Popular Culture and Identity at San Diego State University, and was a speaker at Pasadena TEDx 2018.
Meet the Team
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Dan Cordero
Client Experience & Education Specialist
Chicanx artist, advocate and trans man with a long cultivated passion for educational activism
Facilitated anti-bias, gender inclusivity, equity & diversity training with thousands of participants
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Shawntanet Jara, Ed.D.
Belonging Integration Specialist
Facilitated anti-bias, gender inclusivity, equity & diversity training with thousands of participants
Specializes in organizational leadership, diversity equity inclusion, curriculum design instructional design, and child development
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Megan Burke, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant & Specialist in LGBTQ+ and Gender Expansive Communities
Ten years of experience teaching and conducting research on gender norms, gender and sexual oppression, sexual ethics, sexual violence, transgender experience, and contemporary racism.
As a white, queer person, Megan's work often thinks through the entanglement of privilege and oppression. Their book When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Time (University Minnesota Press, 2019) was featured in Ms. Magazine and Advocate.
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Dina Marimba, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant & Specialist in Asian-American Pacific Islander Communities
Published author and editor: Transformative Practices for Minority Student Success; The “Other” Students: Filipino Americans, Education, and Power; The Misrepresented Minority: New Insights on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Their Implications for Higher Education; The Misrepresented Minority; and Charting New Realities: Asian Americans in Higher Education
Senior Scholar Award and Diamond Honoree Award from the Association of College Student Personnel Association, and Distinguished Contribution to Research and Scholarship on Asian Americans
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Scott Gross, Ed.D.
Senior Consultant & Specialist in Leadership, Inclusive Excellence, and LGBTQ+ Communities.
Dr. Gross has been actively designing and facilitating diversity and inclusion programs for more than 20 years. He has led approximately 230 diversity trainings and anti-bias workshops that have reached more than 4500 participants.
For 14 years, Dr. Gross facilitated a community leadership program called Leadership North County, which graduates more informed and more inspired leaders. While directing the program, Dr. Gross individually coached leaders from the private sector as well as the government and non-profit sector. Additionally, he facilitated leadership seminars that supported leaders as they wrestled with difficult decisions.
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Gabrielle Gosselin, M.A.
Senior Consultant & Specialist in Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Inclusion & Belonging Work
Gabrielle has spent 20 years as a counselor, professor, and program coordinator in both domestic and international settings.
Her degrees in Africana History, and Counseling (with an emphasis on multicultural cross-cultural education) underpin her decades of work focused on culturally responsive and trauma informed counseling, mentoring, and inclusive pedagogy. Gabrielle is also multilingual, speaking English, Kinyarwanda, French, and Italian.
She has received numerous awards, including the 2022 Grossmont College Faculty Excellence Award in Counseling.
Our Values
Joyful
In the ways we approach one another, and belonging work, as we believe joy is found from our collective purpose to create a more inclusive and just world.
Curious
About the social, historical and cultural phenomena that create both equity and inequity, as well as the ways that affects each of our unique client-partners.
Positive
With the intention of promoting generative and nurturing environments for all people and organizations we interact with, including our own.
Tenacious
In our pursuit of effective tools, strategies and solutions to meet the unique challenges of equity and inclusion work.
Kind
In the extension of grace and compassion while being forthright and deliberate.
Measured
As we consider how to help one another and organizations navigate the vast phenomena that contribute to equity/inequity within our lives.
Reflective
In order to help improve ourselves, be flexible in our thought processes, and better assist our client-partners.
Creative
In our approach as we imagine how we can help ourselves and our client-partners build and sustain a culture of belonging.
Collaborative
Because we’re at our best when we operate with the awareness of the unique insight and strengths gained from diverse groups
Committed
To each other, to our mission, and to realizing a culture of belonging by helping our client-partners harness their own agency to improve their organization.