About EverExcel

EverExcel Consulting, LLC

EverExcel is a national consulting firm dedicated to working with institutions and organizations across multiple sectors to improve outcomes for marginalized populations. With a focus on education, housing, and racial equity, our highly skilled team guides partners through several processes for complex systemic change. Among some of those processes are research and data analysis, equity, inclusion, diversity, and access (EIDA) assessments, anti-racism training, leadership and staff development, and strategic planning. We are deeply committed to ensuring that partners are successfully progressing towards their goals while working towards equity.

Mission & Guiding Principles

EverExcel strives to generate structural changes that promote racial equity and excellence for marginalized populations within and across institutions. Our mission is grounded in four guiding principles:

  1. Quality public education and housing are fundamental human rights. 
  2. Institutions that are failing Black  are failing all of us.
  3. Communities hold valuable experiential knowledge and cultural wealth for informing policies and practices in institutions.
  4. At all levels policies, practices, and mindsets can and must change.

Consulting Services 

Education. We employ a racial equity lens to support local education agencies, school districts, teachers and administrators, and community-based organizations on their journey toward providing access and improving outcomes for all students.

Housing.We use structural racism as a framework for understanding poverty and addressing homelessness and housing policies.

Racial Equity. We work alongside partners to implement practices and policies that promote the empowerment of marginalized communities meanwhile supporting individual organizational goals.

Principal Consultants

EverExcel was established by two former educators and community advocates that wanted to expanded their pedagogical approaches beyond the classroom. Their professional backgrounds, personal experiences and unique interdisciplinary trainings compliment each others. 

 
 
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Elianny C. Edwards, M.ED

Elianny C. Edwards (she/her)

Elianny is an educator, applied researcher, and scholar. She is a certified K-6 teacher with over ten years of experience teaching, mentoring, and directing out-of-school-time programming for youth from underserved communities across the country. Currently, Elianny C. Edwards is an instructional coach for first and second year public school teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District and an instructor of applied cognitive development in the Child and Adolescent Development Department at California State University, Northridge. Her research and scholarly interests include school safety at the intersections of race, class, and gender, the critical wellness and academic outcomes of Student of Color, and culturally relevant and sustaining teaching pedagogy. Elianny C. Edwards has led workshops on increasing school safety, addressing student trauma, and employing a racial equity lens within institutions. Her research has been featured in media outlets like the LA Times, NPR, EdWeek, and EdSource.

 

An Afro-Latina born and raised in New York City, Elianny is a first generation alumna who has committed her life to bridging research and practice to improve educational equity, access, and outcomes for Students of Color and low-income youth. Elianny is a doctoral student in the Human Development & Psychology division of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. She received a master’s degree in education from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology and child development from Tufts University.

Earl Edwards

Earl J. Edwards, M.ED

Earl J. Edwards (he/him)

Earl J. Edwards is an educator, researcher, and human rights advocate. His scholarship and advocacy focuses on understanding the impact of structural racism on public institutions in the United States and training organizations and municipalities to proactively create systems to address racial inequities. His work is particularly focused on educational systems and enterprises supporting people experiencing homelessness.

For the past 10 years, Earl has been supporting nonprofit organizations, schools, school districts, and municipality departments nationwide in building their capacity for addressing issues of racial equity. Drawing upon his experience as a former classroom teacher and district administrator, Earl designs meaningful professional development and ongoing workshops that help organizations develop, implement, and assess data-driven strategies for improving their practices.

Earl is a doctoral candidate in the Urban Schooling division of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He received a master’s degree in education leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Boston College.

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