Equity Warrior Strategies

Equity Warrior Strategies LLC strengthens capacity, fights for change, tackles oppression, and advances social justice in the social impact sector. We partner with nonprofit leaders to find the best strategies for learning and solutions at the personal, organizational, and community levels. We accomplish social equity, leadership development, and capacity-building goals through education, coaching, facilitation, technical assistance, and strategic planning.

Founder:

Jonathan Meagher-Zayas, MSW, MPA, CFRE, CDP (he/him/él) is a Queer Latinx Millennial Nonprofit Leadership strategist dedicated to addressing equity issues, building capacity, engaging the community, motivating impact leaders, and getting stuff done. As the Lead Equity Warrior, he wears many professional hats, including Nonprofit Capacity Building Educator, Community Engagement Strategist, Adjunct Social Work Professor, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Consultant, Leadership Development Trainer, Award-Winning Fundraiser/Resource Mobilizer, Impact Coach Sector & Facilitator, Learning and Social Contexts Doctoral Candidate, and Social Justice Champion.

With 14+ years of professional nonprofit experience, Jonathan has experience in fundraising, communications, volunteer management, program management, leadership development, board governance, community engagement, public affairs, inclusion, diversity, equity, and access work.

• As an award-winning fundraiser and resource mobilizer, he has raised over $14 million through major gifts, corporate relations, events, foundation philanthropy, government grants, and annual giving initiatives.
• He is an experienced community engagement and communications strategist with a proven track record of leading projects and teams in implementing social media, digital communications, community outreach, advocacy, donor stewardship, recruitment, public relations, and marketing campaigns for various nonprofit organizations.
• He has coached and supported hundreds of nonprofit board leaders with board governance, engagement, leadership development, and effectiveness assessment and planning. 
• He has extensive experience managing leadership development programs, strategic planning, and advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives.
• He is a global educator and has provided training for hundreds of nonprofit leaders online, at in-person conferences, and through customized workshops.