When you work with Akullu, you're entering into a partnership that moves beyond extractive evaluation toward transformative learning that builds capacity, enhances accountability, and creates pathways for sustainable change. We meet you where you are and journey alongside you toward where you want to be.
Transforming how organizations and communities approach research, evaluation, and learning.
How we Journey Together
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Research & Evaluation Consulting
Transforming research & evaluation into a liberatory, intuitive, and community-rooted practice.
We partner with mission-aligned organizations, foundations, and initiatives to reimagine research and evaluation as tools for accountability, truth-telling, and transformation.
What We Offer:
Evaluation Strategy & Design — Equity-focused and mission-driven frameworks that honor both quantitative rigor and qualitative depth
Program Impact & Learning Evaluations Specialized experience across social and economic justice, public health, education, youth development, gender equity, policy advocacy, and community-driven initiatives.
Culturally Rooted Research — Community-engaged research that centers lived experiences and community wisdom as foundational knowledge sources
Organizational Capacity Building — Training in liberatory implementation science and equity-centered evaluation
Thought Partnership — Strategic guidance for aligning data efforts with equity-focused and mission-driven goals
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Workshops & Circles
Reflective, healing-centered learning spaces for scholars, educators, storytellers, and community researchers.
We design workshops and circles that reimagine research, writing, and teaching as practices of care, ethics, and transformation.
Featured Offerings:
Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) Training — Collaborative learning sessions that honor community wisdom and center equity in every stage of research. Grounded in relational practice, these trainings include reflective tools and resources to support ethical, community-driven inquiry.
The Inner Compass Series — Signature workshops helping researchers explore their "why" and reclaim embodied methods
Healing-Centered Circles — Safe, supportive spaces for processing the emotional weight of knowledge work
Customized Residencies — Multi-day programs for universities and organizations seeking deeper transformation
Liberatory Pedagogy Intensives — Research and teaching as practices rooted in justice and community
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Creative Offerings
Where scholarship meets soul, and analysis becomes art.
Waves in the Sunset Zine — A curated journal centering Black voices and ways of knowing through essays, visual art, poetry, and community scholarship. Exploring belonging, diaspora, grief, joy, and Black personhood while honoring cultural memory and collective wisdom.
How to Listen to Music Podcast — An auditory journey through Black creative expression as liberation and transformation. Grounded in cultural and community wisdom, each episode explores how music helps us navigate chaos, reconciliation, and evolution. Listening as inquiry. Music as analysis. Spirit as scholarship.
These offerings build community across traditional boundaries.
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