About Roshan Bliss
MEET ROSHAN
Roshan Bliss is the Founder & Principal Consultant of Bliss Collaborations, a consulting business dedicated to “co-laboring” with nonprofits, businesses, community groups, schools, and government agencies to make their decision-making and governance more democratic, to make our shared communities stronger, and to make our future safer and more just.
All of Roshan’s work is oriented by his core values of democracy, authenticity, and accountability, while underpinned by anti-oppression frameworks and rooted in the practices and teachings of community organizing.
What sets Bliss Collaborations apart is the way that its Founder and Principal Consultant, Roshan Bliss, infuses his deep experience and strategic orientation into all of its services.
Roshan has made an art of bringing the skills and expertise from his wide range of experiences in the nonprofit, education, social, and public sectors together in ways that can uniquely support the needs of many kinds of organizations and projects.
Roshan doesn’t fit into any of the typical consultant boxes. He’s a professional facilitator, inclusiveness trainer, and public engagement specialist who has spent hundreds of hours supporting small and large groups to learn, grow, and make decisions together.
As an experienced nonprofit professional, he spent seven years in senior leadership of two mission-driven organizations and has collaborated with countless others on everything from strategic planning to volunteer management to program design.
He’s an accomplished youth & community organizer and a policy advocate who’s helped write new laws, built strong community coalitions, and won campaigns for ambitious social change. He’s also an avid reader, sometimes an author, and a profound thinker, who has a passion for racial, gender, and generational justice along with a deep belief in the power of our collective social imaginations.
Areas of Depth
- Racial Justice & Healing
- Intergenerational Dialogue
- Community Accountability & Alternatives to the Punishment Paradigm
- Reimagining Masculinity
- Community Organizing & Social Justice
Roshan’s Speaking & Writing
Writing
New Network for Social Justice Unionism Seeks to Change the Labor Movement – Read on Truthout.org
Quebec Students Continue Fight Against Austerity – Read on Popular Resistance.org
In Portland, Student Union Plays Key Role in Faculty Union Win – Read on Alternet.org
Speaking
Panel on STAR Program – Watch on YouTube
Debate on youth voting – Watch on YouTube
Alternatives to Policing In Our Vision for Housing Justice – Watch on YouTube
Coverage of Roshan’s Work
A long-planned program to remove police from some 911 calls launched as Denver’s streets erupted in police brutality protests – Read on Denverite.com
COP 20 Lima: Denverite a Part of US Delegation to Investigate Newmont Mining Role in Human Rights Abuses in Peru – Listen and Read on KGNU.org
