Diversity Consulting Services
Elevate your story. Safeguard your brand.
Navigating representation in fiction and non-fiction requires more than a casual read—it demands psychological insight, ethical rigor, and a deep understanding of narrative mechanics. As an inclusion consultant and story strategist with over 100+ manuscripts consulted across traditional and indie publishing, I help authors and publishers create authentic, compelling, and ethically sound books.
I don’t just hand you a list of mistakes—I partner with you to fix them while preserving your creative vision and elevating your story’s structural integrity.
Why Work with Me?
Most sensitivity readers offer feedback based strictly on personal experience. I approach manuscript analysis through a rare combination of academic background, corporate ethics, emotional intelligence, and structural story mechanics.
Authenticity & Specialization Areas
While my general Inclusion & Representation Audit catches broad problematic content and harmful tropes across all demographics, I also provide direct authenticity reading for specific lived experiences.
I struggled as a teen with feelings of not being “enough” of anything to really fit in once we moved from Southern California to Western Pennsylvania.
I served in the United States Army for 8.5 years and completed a 12-month deployement. My first duty station was at an infantry base, and I was a member of the Intelligence Community for 10 years, including my civilian work.
During my military time, I was raped twice. The first time was by an emotionally abusive boyfriend. I reported it and the military did nothing. The second time was the night I returned from Afghanistan by another Soldier I barely knew.
Due to my deployment and being a rape survivor, I also have PTSD. Most of which I managed and healed from on my own (10/10 do not recommend). As a result, I have had responses that other people don’t understand, and the ensuing embarrassment and shame.
One of my children was adopted from within my family, and it was not an easy thing to do.
I met my husband while we were deployed. Particularly with the current conversations around race, it hasn’t been easy to be married to someone from a different ethnic background.
Throughout my life I have often found myself alone in spaces that are predominantly white for a variety of reasons. Ex: when we first moved into our current neighborhood, I was mistaken for my kids nanny several times by neighbors.
Being married to someone with chronic illnesses is a tough and emotional path. There’s sometimes resentment that’s always accompanied by guilt. It’s a complex struggle to experience.
My Qualifications & Training
SNHU Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
What this means for your book: I evaluate character motivations, emotional logic, trauma responses, and arc consistency on an academic level, ensuring your characters feel psychologically authentic and believable.
Cornell Business Ethics Certificate
What this means for your book: I provide corporate-grade ethical risk assessment, protecting your author brand and publishing imprint from communications missteps and public relations risks.
EQ-i 2.0 Certified (Emotional Intelligence)
EIQ-2 Certified (Emotional Intelligence)
What this means for your book: I deliver deep, actionable critiques with empathy and precision. You receive constructive, psychologically safe feedback designed to empower your writing, not crush your process.
Service Offerings & Pricing
Pre-Drafting Concept & Worldbuilding Consult
Rate: $150 per hour
Planning a project and want to get representation right before writing word one?
Catching cultural, ethical, and character flaws during the outline stage saves you months of rewrites down the line. This session is designed for authors in the early stages of plotting, worldbuilding, or character creation.
This consultation is ideal if you are:
- Placing characters outside your lived experience front and center in your narrative.
- Building fictional worlds with rich cultures and complex societal issues, but want to ensure you avoid harmful real-world tropes.
- Looking for a knowledgeable, psychologically grounded sounding board to brainstorm character dynamics and plot outlines.
What’s Included:
- Pre-Call Outline Review:
- Submit up to 3 pages of plot outlines, character sheets, or concept notes prior to our session.
- 60-Minute Live Brainstorming Call:
- We’ll walk through your proposed plot, troubleshoot problem areas, answer your specific questions, and develop authentic approaches to your characters and world.
- Detailed Call Notes & Key Action Items:
- Walk away with actionable steps to start writing your draft with total confidence.
Core Service: Diversity and Inclusion Evaluation
Rate: Flat $0.012 per word
Project Minimum: $250
A comprehensive evaluation of your manuscript focusing on marginalization, representation, communications risk, and general reader impact.
What’s Included:
- General Sensitivity & Problematic Content Review: I evaluate your manuscript for harmful tropes, unintended stereotypes, microaggressions, ableist language, and unconscious biases, ensuring your story is respectful and accessible to a wide audience.
- Detailed Inline Manuscript Comments: Direct margin notes highlighting friction points, dialogue authenticity, cultural nuances, and key narrative moments.
- Top-Level Editorial Report: A comprehensive summary breaking down representation strengths, risk areas, cultural contexts, and actionable recommendations.
- Communications & Reputation Audit: Strategic risk assessment to help safeguard your work before it reaches public readers or reviewers.
Series Catch-Up Review
Rate: $0.0025 per word ($100 project minimum per backlist book)
Jumping into an established series for Book 2 or beyond? To accurately evaluate character development, worldbuilding continuity, emotional logic, and ongoing representation arcs, I must experience the story as your readers did. A Series Catch-Up Review is required for any project where I have not read the preceding books in the series.
Policy Note on Summaries: To maintain the highest editorial and inclusion standards, I do not work from author synopses or plot summaries. Summaries omit the dialogue nuances, cultural framing, tone, and character interactions necessary to perform a thorough narrative and sensitivity analysis.
Optional Service Add-ons
Narrative & Editorial Assessment Add-On
Rate: +$0.004 per word
(Available exclusively as an add-on to the Inclusion & Editorial Assessment)
If you want a deeper look at your manuscript’s underlying story mechanics, this add-on expands the scope of your read to evaluate plot structure and pacing.
What’s Included:
Tracking unresolved plot threads, dropped subplots, and logic gaps.
Auditing character arc consistency and motivation beats.
Identifying “show vs. tell” friction points and off-screen resolutions.
Pacing evaluation and scene relevance recommendations in your Top-Level Report.
60-Minute Live Strategy Session
Rate: $125 per hour
(Available exclusively as an add-on to the Inclusion & Editorial Assessment)
A 1-on-1 video or phone consultation following the delivery of your editorial report.
What’s Included:
Collaborative brainstorming to work through complex sensitivity or plot fixes.
Scene-by-scene restructuring strategies.
Direct Q&A to answer your specific revision questions in real time
Ready to move forward?
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