Who We Are
Doing the Work LLC provides consulting and professional learning services for educators, administrators, institutional stakeholders, as well as non-profit and corporate agencies. We conduct workshops, trainings, classes, and other professional learning opportunities, as well as consulting services, for professionals navigating the challenges and opportunities of rapidly diversifying schools and workplaces.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Our orientation to this work is interdisciplinary, intersectional, and focused on actionable change. These guiding principles inform everything we do:
Personal and professional growth is achieved through sustained engagement, rather than one-time experiences
Taking a lesson from the disability justice movement, we move at the "speed of trust"
Rather than expecting overnight success, the goal is to "move the needle" incrementally over time, measuring progress along the way
MEET OUR FOUNDER
DR. CAROLYN CORRADO
CEO/Founder & Principal
Facilitator
Dr. Carolyn Corrado (she/her) is a white antiracist and anti-bias educator, consultant, sociologist, and parent. She is a first generation college student and earned her doctorate in Sociology, and master’s degree in Women’s Studies, at the University at Albany (NY) and bachelor's degree in Sociology at Alfred University (NY). She taught at various New York universities for eighteen years, ten of which were spent in the Department of Sociology and affiliated with the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments at the State University of New York at New Paltz, before starting Doing The Work in 2022.
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Carolyn has centered her career on understanding and examining intersections of race, gender, and social class, focusing specifically on identities, social psychology, youth and youth cultures, and honing her teaching craft. She has published book reviews on race, gender, and youth, and has given invited talks, juried conference presentations, and organized and run panel discussions and workshops on issues of race and structural racism, whiteness and identities, gender inequities, diversity and inclusion, antiracism in the classroom, and teaching and pedagogy. Carolyn’s vast experience teaching in multiple modalities to various audiences makes her a versatile facilitator. She is passionate about building trust and confidence in participants while leading productive conversations on sensitive issues and difficult topics. These close-knit and authentic partnerships often open up channels of communication that were previously unexplored and lead to concrete, organically-generated action and measurable change in institutions.
