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About Us
Elevation Educational Consulting Group is a minority woman-owned company based in the Maryland Metropolitan area with national and international reach.
Our mission is to elevate the effectiveness of educators, workforce professionals, and organizations in the field of education. EECG devotes its energy to passionately supporting organizations of all sizes through customized supports and strength-based practices.
Our Founder
Our founder, Daquanna Harrison, MA Psy is an alumna of Howard, American, and Duke Universities and a graduate of the Education Policy Fellowship Program from the Institute for Educational Leadership. She is an honoree of the Forty Under 40 award for Excellence in Education by PGCSIF. Her areas of expertise include evaluating and creating curriculum and learning tools; developing, implementing, and managing educational programs; and leadership development that will further the mission of quality education and learning for all. She had a vision of bringing talented experts from numerous fields together under one umbrella. She believes that this 'cross pollination' of ideas, skills, knowledge and expertise expands our ability to strengthen systems and lift people. Through Elevation Educational Consulting Group this belief is a reality.
Our Organizational Structure
EECG is structured in consulting teams. Consultants support all aspects of projects within their realm and have the ability to support projects of interest within other consulting teams.
EECG is structured to bring together consultants with many skillsets to provide its clients with products and services that fit their unique needs. We are educators, administrators, businesspersons, lawyers, and psychologists who have “on the ground” experience and years of training and knowledge.
Laura Porfirio
Laura has 30 years of experience in adult education fostering learner autonomy, making meaning through contextualized instruction, and centering learner and community voices. She is focused on collaborative, constructivist approaches that are rooted in participatory learning theories. Her expertise includes professional development, civic engagement, media literacy, digital storytelling, instruction/curriculum, workforce development, leadership training, and advocacy.
Leigh Bond, JD
Leigh Bond is a social justice advocate, educator and lawyer. Leigh continually seeks out opportunities to be instrumental in systemic change through community education. Leigh is a curriculum designer with a focus on social justice content and literacy skills, and a facilitator in leadership development. She is the founder of DreamLeigh.
Tirrany Thurmond, M.Ed., NCC, LGPC
Tirrany Thurmond is the founder and principal consultant for Idaltu Counseling & Consulting, an educational consulting firm dedicated to fusing the healing practices of mental health counseling with social justice advocacy and anti-racist education. Her areas of expertise are building cultural proficiency in practitioners, strengthening inclusive leadership, and diversity auditing. She's a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), a Safe Zone facilitator, and currently serves as a college administrator with an expertise in equity and inclusion.
Stephanie Durr, M.A.
Stephanie Durr is a higher education administrator, equity educator and project manager with a solid history of achievement on both college and university campuses, small minority businesses and consulting firms. Her vast consultancies and experience consists of managing a strong portfolio of clients, special interest groups and co-curricular programs that foster inclusion, community engagement, self-exploration, and encourage open discourse on race, power, and privilege. Her work comprises, but is not limited to, building processes that assist consulting firms coordinate across client projects and internal initiatives for continued growth, training and development, and assessment. She is also a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).
Dana Caffee-Glenn, EdM
Dana is a 5th generation educator with 15+ years of experience within formal and informal education environments. She currently produces the children's multimedia program, Ayanna's Place! Her focus includes early learning and arts integration. Dana holds a BFA in Theatre Education from Howard University and an EdM in Arts in Education from Harvard University.
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