"Working with Windy Cooler-Stith and SIP was a delight. The research reports were thorough and prompt and invariably hit on some angle I hadn't thought of."
-Ricardo Levins Morales, Organizer and Artist, founding member of Northland Poster Collective
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"I have found working with SIP to be consistently impressive. Besides being a joy to work with, Windy Cooler-Stith is a take-charge person who is able to present creative ideas and communicate the benefits. By helping us develop a successful client recruitment strategy, SIP is proving to be an exceptional asset for our organization."
-Michael Dalton, Executive Director, Forefront Organizing
Washington DC
I've long seen a desperate need for the services offered by SIP. Having known Windy as a skilled organizer and friend for six years now, I think that her key qualification as a mentor for other organizers is her unusual insight into personal and political power. This understanding has enabled her to address her own life's work with profound thoughtfulness. She will bring this depth to any relationship she undertakes.
Jeff Schmidt
Physicist, author of Disciplined Minds, and organizer
Washington, D.C.
I first met Windy in 2000 as she was walking the path of justice as an organizer with a public transportation advocacy group in Montgomery, Alabama. I've seen her weather disorienting struggles that had to do with both the world to be changed and the very organizations that made it their business to work for change. Ever since I have known her, Windy has heeded the call to live as a member of one very large human family and to model the very best practices of parity, creativity, and thoughtfulness in relation to herself and her connections with others. She has always lived the truth that change starts with self, and I think this enlightened sense of being in the world endows her with the ability to offer gentle, yet provocative counsel to others who seek change. I love and respect Windy Cooler-Stith and am constantly inspired by her.
Eileen Knott
Organizer and Social Entrepreneur
Montgomery, AL
Windy Cooler-Stith is brilliant. She has first-hand experience successfully navigating the challenges organizers must face on a daily basis. With a warm heart, a steel resolve, and unending patience, Windy works tirelessly in the service of just causes. An organizer would be wise to spend a year in her company.
Mark Sabel
Civil Rights Attorney
Montgomery, AL
I first met Windy several years ago as her Organizing Coordinator on an unbelievably stressful union contract campaign. While she was dedicating herself wholly to that union of low paid, low skill workers with tremendous skill, zeal and intensity, it was her empathy and leadership with the other organizers on that campaign that made the biggest impression. Windy is an excellent mentor for any individual organizer, volunteer or paid, community or union, who wants to honestly explore the whole complex and often contradictory picture of living this kind of life with the goal of finding the skills, strength and peace to fully engage the world.
Mark Esrig
25-year Union Organizing Veteran, Mark Esrig Consulting
Phoenix, AZ