Cherokee Washington
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I offer EDI consulting, speaking, training, and facilitation on intersectional topics in EDI. My expertise lie in cultural competency, unlearning anti-Blackness, historical consciousness, and helping folks learn the art of learning, unlearning, and relearning to reimagine
I specialize in intersectional EDI issues in sport contexts as a cultural competency consultant for coaches and sport organizations. I have extensive knowledge and research expertise in understanding and teaching the nuances of EDI issues in sport, helping coaches gain EDI education to improve their relationships with athletes and team personnel, and generally helping athletic organizations create and enhance cultures of inclusivity
I also offer research and co-writing expertise for any EDI related projects, heart-centered approaches to EDI work, and teaching radical empathy
Cherokee Washington is a Cultural Competency Consultant, Qualitative Sport Researcher, and Interdisciplinary Scholar.
As a Baldwinian abolitionist, Cherokee has dedicated her personal, academic, and professional paths to reimagining systems of oppression through interdisciplinary means.
Holding an M.A. in Sport Psychology from McGill University, as well as a B.A. in Rhetoric Studies and B.S. in Psychology from Whitman College, Cherokee specializes in the areas of cultural competency, cultural humility and sensitivity, intersectionality, identity politics, historical consciousness, anti-racism, unlearning anti-Blackness, decolonization and reimagination, critical analysis, sport coach education, coach-athlete relationships, and social issues in sport.
Her current sport research is focused on the ways in which race affects partnerships between BIPOC athletes and their coaches, as well as how to improve said partnerships through cultural competency. Originally from Los Angeles, California, Cherokee recently relocated to Paris, France and is currently pursuing international EDI work in a globally situated geopolitical and cultural context through work with companies in Europe, the United States, and Canada.
Although she has come to EDI work via a North American positionality, Cherokee seeks to better understand non-American and non-Western socio-cultural politics to integrate a global perspective into her consulting. Using thoughtful questioning, radical empathy, and courageous truth-telling, Cherokee invites folks to decipher what cultural competency, humility, and sensitivity means to them and actively engage with ideas and means of liberation.