People who have worked with Claire describe her as inviting, thoughtful, empathetic, empowering, reliable, conscientious, creative, motivating, and a good listener.
Claire Haas is a coach, community organizer, facilitator, and musician.
Claire has worked extensively with community organizations in just about every role possible. She's knocked on doors, built organizing committees, led direct actions and anti-corporate campaigns, built coalitions, raised money, won policy changes, developed staff, written reports, created leadership development programs, managed electoral campaigns, run an operations and finances department, founded an organization, been an Executive Director, and coached and consulted many groups from the outside. She is a certified professional coach through Leadership that Works' Coaching for Transformation course. She was trained by Sarah Jawaid and Damon Azali-Rojas who now now run Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation. She studied liberatory parts work with them, and is a core part of her coaching practice. She has also studied socionomy with Leticia Nieto, and uses her framework, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment to frame her understanding of how parts, people, and systems interact. Currently, Claire is studying Culture and Communications at the University of Lisbon to bring a new lens to how cultural change is shaping our movements and how we can us trends and cultural analysis to build stronger movements.
Claire's native language is English, and she learned Spanish as a child, and learned Portuguese as an adult in Brazil. Her language skills are solid enough to present, facilitate, or coach in any of these 3 languages, though while living in Europe, she proudly retains her accents of the Americas.
Claire believes deeply in abolition, transformative justice, and disability justice.