Rie Algeo Gilsdorf

Email: rie@dendros.com

Rie Algeo Gilsdorf (she/her/ella) is the Founder of Embody Equity, where she provides consulting, coaching and facilitation that allow people and organizations to put their equity, diversity and inclusion ideas into action - to embody equity. As a coach, Rie guides clients toward greater confidence, fluency and grace in a diverse world. As a facilitator she provides the challenge that moves participants along on their journey, in an environment that does not trap them in guilt or denial. Whether she is breaking down the difficult truths of our common history so they are not overwhelming, bringing cultural attitudes and norms to light, or using systems thinking and sensing to help organizations turn possibilities into real change, Rie's work develops critical consciousness across race, gender, sexuality and ability.

Rie has been a teacher, administrator and designer of arts-integrated, student-centered K-12 schools and Reggio-inspired early childhood programs. With Master’s degrees in Biology and Modern Dance, Rie organically infuses the perspectives of the body - from the physiology of trauma to the subtlety of gesture - into all her work.