Kristin Lennox, MSW, LCSW, (“but you can call me Kris!”) is a first-generation daughter of Filipino diaspora immigrants residing on occupied Powhatan land in Richmond, Virginia. Kristin is a human, eldest sibling, partner, and friend who practices social (change) work. Kristin is the owner and operator of Onward Consulting and Care Services, LLC. Kristin also provides therapy as a contracted licensed clinical social worker with Roots to Results Counseling and Fraser & Associates Complete Therapeutic Services.

Kristin has over a decade of experience working in the non-profit sector. She has worked in the micro (clinical), mezzo, and macro (policy) levels of social work. Her early work as a crisis and trauma therapist with 2–17-year-olds radicalized her into pursuing system change work. Her most recent non-profit work was as a Director of Engagement at an organization focused on state-level policy. She began and oversaw Virginia’s Youth in Action, a cohort of young advocates influencing state-level change at the Virginia General Assembly. Kristin remains obsessed with youth power, radically imagining our collective, liberated future. Kristin continues to support the growth and development of local non-profits as a Board member at The Innerwork Center and Sub:Culture Inc.

Kristin is a double alum of Virginia Commonwealth University (BSW 2011, MSW 2016) where she currently teaches (and learns with) incredible BSW students. She completed Virginia Civic Engagement Table's Virginia Progressive Leadership Program and has returned as a contributing facilitator and mentor to the program. Kristin has completed Flourish Agenda's Healing Centered Engagement Practitioner Certification and is a Certified SoulCollage® Facilitator.

As a facilitator, convener, care provider, and community advocate, Kristin is inspired by her courageous ancestors, abolitionist daydreaming, the Womanist lens (global feminism), Tricia Hersey’s nap ministry, and the Healing-Centered Engagement framework by Dr. Ginwright.

In her free time, Kristin loves to dance and perform with her Filipino dance troupe, read fiction and non-fiction, craft and collage, practice mindfulness, take long meandering walks to nowhere, and go on adventures with her friends and family.