Providing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) planning resources, education, and engagement. Aimed toward multidisciplinary planning and planning adjacent practitioners and community leaders.
Offering Indigenous Perspective Workshops and Trainings
Elevating Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities
Facilitating Community Engagement and Public Involvement
Genevieve aims to build inclusive practices and policies through a researched based and Indigenous perspective.
Located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional Indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people who were forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation between 1851 and 1855, we acknowledge the past and present stewards of the area now know as Eugene, Oregon in the Southern Willamette Valley. Acknowledging and elevating the cultural value of ancestral wisdom here and across the lands is key to the work at
Genevieve Middleton Consulting.
Choose a Service
Genevieve's customized trainings and facilitation utilize her capacity to speak the language of urban planning, architecture, design, and environmental solutions applied through an equity and access lens.
Trainings & Workshops
Achieve Your Goals
Genevieve's approach to professional trainings for organizations and agencies comes from a research-based and Indigenous perspective. Her work seeks an outcomes based ideology aimed at bettering the lives of systemically underrepresented and underserved communities.
DEI Training Courses:
Intergovernmental Tribal Relations
Land Acknowledgement Statements
Urban Indigenous Housing Solutions
Inclusive Community Engagement
DEI Consulting
Changing the dominant narrative
As your consultant, Genevieve Middleton will help you assess your needs and create an action plan to solve the critical issues of incorporating diverse, equitable, and inclusive solutions.
Genevieve's unique Indigenous approach is not only what differentiates her, but also what makes her successful. She provides a broad range of services and solutions to help organizations facilitate change, achieve their vision and engage with difficult topics.
Facilitation
Community Engagement & Public Involvement
With years of applied experience, Genevieve has the capability and expertise to lead your team to utilize community engagement and public involvement best practices and techniques to support DEI solutions.
With a combined background in Design & Planning, Genevieve offers you with an opportunity for graphic design support that is meant to gather qualitative and quantitive community answers. We combine our insights and skills to transform your processes and strategies, and in turn, your organization or agency.
Does your company need our services? Message us today.
Land Acknowledgement Workshop
Inspiring demonstrative allyship
At Genevieve A. Middleton Consulting, we recognize that we are guests on stolen land from the historic Indigenous stewards. Our workshop pursues educating your leadership to be knowledgeable about how and why to write your organizations Land Acknowledgement Statement (LAS).
Level 1: One hour workshop, broad based- mixed media presentation with Q & A
Level 2: Focused topic based workshop presentation with Q & A, follow-up LAS iterative feedback process.
Intergovernmental Tribal Relations Workshop
An educational and engaging workshop which dives into the process of intergovernmental relations with tribal sovereign nations. Resources and supporting readings illuminate case study's and legal precedents.
Terminology
Tribal Sovereignty
Intergovernmental Relations Process
Next Steps/Land Acknowledgement
DEI Training Courses
Educating for Resiliency
Urban Indigenous Housing Solutions
History of American Indian / Alaska Native Housing (AIAN) policy
Sovereign Nation political status vs. Fair Housing Act
Primary Research Case Study Solutions
Components of creating appropriate urban AIAN housing solutions
Inclusive Community Engagement
Purpose and outcomes for engaging
Options for outreach
Structuring in-person meetings
Structuring online meetings
Follow-up and Surveys
DEI Consulting
Policy - Process - Design
Helping you to identify your area of focus to best support the
goals of diversity, equity and inclusion
from an Indigenous perspective.
Includes:
Introductory consultation
Objectives and outcomes design
Policy and design options
Community solutions
DEI Facilitation
Community Engagement and Public Involvement
Aimed at Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Community Development Firms and Departments
Do you wish to better understand how to serve BIPOC communities? This service is for you.
Includes:
Meeting goals and structure
Graphic support and administrative outreach
Facilitation and collaborative facilitation
Follow-up and survey outreach
Who We’ve Worked With
City of Eugene
Intergovernmental Tribal Relations Facilitation
College of Design
Collaborative Topography Publication
Transponder
Land Acknowledgment Workshop
Parks and Open Spaces
Master Plan Update
Lane County Health and Human Services
Equity Audit
American Planning Association
Oregon Chapter
Produced and Hosted top-viewing Anti-racist Planning Webinar
Clatsop County Oregon
Public Health - Community Health Advocacy Resource Team (CHART)
Past Work
Looking Back
A People's Guide to Eugene, Oregon
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Worked with School of Public Planning, Policy, and Management Inclusive Urbanism 321 undergraduate class to develop and publish a user's guide to the city of Eugene, inspired A People's Guide to Los Angeles (2012).
University of Oregon
College of Design
2020
Webinar Host & Producer
December 16, 2020
Worked with the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association to produce and moderate a conversation with three Indigenous Planning adjacent practitioners in the State of Oregon.
Visit OregonAPA.org to view.
BIPOC Stipends Policy
Oregon Chapter American Planning Association, 2020
Worked to establish a draft policy that offers stipends for self-identified BIPOC speakers, presenters, and webinar guests. As a standard for all agencies who engage with BIPOC communities this policy is meant to offer a symbol of gratitude from an organizational standpoint for the expertise and emotional labor of the lived experience when informing planning and design decisions.
Community Planning Workshop
2018-2019
As part of the Institute of Policy, Research and Engagement (IPRE), our team worked with the City of Talent to develop a new Parks Master Plan. My contributions included:
Public involvement events production
Landscape design of three parks (community informed)
Communications with City officials
Place Matters Clatsop County
Spring 2021
Facilitated the Community Health Advocacy Resource Team's (CHART) planning process, creating templates and a model that CHART will be able to use for future events. Conducted outreach to event speakers, set up the platform for the event, including registration, communications with both attendees and speakers, and kept the CHART team on a tight timeline. The conference outcome includes three webinar panel's on the topics of Food Security, Education, Health, Housing and Livable Wages in Oregon. https://www.clatsopchart.org/placematters2021
Master of Community and Regional Planning
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
University of Oregon
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Genevieve and three generations of her family have lived as Indigenous guests on Kalapuya Ilihi for more than 30 years. Her parents (Dean and Marcy Middleton) were active human rights and Native American educational advocates in the 1990s, participating in the creation of the University of Oregon Longhouse and Lane Community College Longhouse. Today, those cultural centers remain hubs for the greater American Indian Alaska Native population surrounding the Eugene/Springfield metro area.
It is the lifelong work for Genevieve to support the well-being of her greater American Indian Alaska Native community through Planning and Design work. Her work is supported by scholarly research, current data, and promotes allied Native-run organizations.
Genevieve A. Middleton
Diné | Citizen of Navajo Nation
Honoring our Ancestors
Inspiring collaboration with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities
Acknowledging the Land
Stepping beyond performative allyship
Workshop Testimonials
It was great! It was too short, but I think we made the most of the time we had. I appreciate the realistic homework assignments. I learned a lot and left with a new understanding of history and our community.
I really appreciated the detail provided around nuances of working with tribal organizations vs. engaging Indigenous community members, as well as effective and authentic/honest practices for incorporating land acknowledgement more deeply into everyday work (not just a statement on a website. I have so many positive responses that I can't include here, so really appreciate all the presenter's efforts, honesty, and emotional energy that went into offering this workshop. THANK YOU.
- Sustainability Analyst response to Intergovernmental Tribal Relations Workshop
- Equity & Access Analyst response to Intergovernmental Tribal Relations Workshop
“Very informative and compelling. I would love to have this workshop with our Public Information Team.”
“It’s really important information and so many of us are truly clueless about the realities that indigenous communities have experienced I’m mostly just very grateful for the extension of grace and education that you’ve offered all of us when, honestly, we all should have learned this a really long time ago.”
Communications Executive
- Landscape Architect
“The workshop was a great introduction to the history of tribes and AN/NA communities in Oregon. I am looking forward to continued learning and relationship building”
“I found it well organized and easy to understand and thought provoking.”
- Public Works Department Executive
- Elected City Councilor
"Genevieve also spent time with our team to debrief and create a plan for next year's conference, offering several great suggestions.
We were so fortunate she was able to do this for us. I can't recommend her high enough."
- Health Promotions Specialist, Clatsop County Public Health
