strategic consulting for public good
about
We provide strategic consulting for organizations, advocates, and businesses looking to make a difference. Offering boutique attention, we’re ready to sit down with you and turn your cause into an action plan.
We specialize in human rights, 2SLGBTQI+, refugee, gender, humanitarian, and democracy advocacy, and have strong familiarity across the poverty, climate, housing, sex worker, and Indigenous justice landscapes.
No issue is too niche, and we offer a range of options for advocates making big waves with small boats.
team
With over 15 years’ navigating the Canadian political landscape, let us connect you with the right people at the right level. With internatinoal experience leading team delegations and organizing bold human rights initiatives, we can help you leverage global advocacy spaces, and make them your own. With developed networks of global human rights experts, advocacy leaders, and political industry experts, we can pull in the right people to meet your specific project needs.
Pax is a writer and advocate. She holds her MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics, where her dissertation on Canadian Emergency management policy showed the ways it criminalizes Indigenous people and protest. She holds her BA in Hons. Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. Pax is a recipient of the Steinert & Ferreiro Award, Canada's largest single cash award in recognition of LGBTQ+ leadership.
As a research consultant in the international NGO sector, Pax focuses on where international humanitarian efforts fail queer people. She has consulted for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Rainbow Railroad. In 2023, she led the team that secured a private briefing and public policy change with Prime Minister Trudeau in a landmark partnership between civil society and the government of Canada. Pax is also a sought-after campaign strategist, having served in senior leadership roles in campaigns across all levels. She’s an experienced Canadian and international organizer and human rights advocate.
In her creative life, Pax is the Founder and Executive Director of non-profit Queer Toronto Literary Magazine, elevating queer voices in Canada since 2020.
Pax Santos, MSc.
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