Our Team
Heang Leung Rubin, EdD, MA
Founder and PrincipalDr. Heang Leung Rubin draws from multiple identities, experiences, and skills to her work. She has been informed by work as as advocate, organizer, healer, researcher, teacher, farmer, writer, and mother. Through her work in Chinatown, she has been described as a “bridge” and a “convener”. She specializes in leading community engagement processes with multiple stakeholders, supporting organizations through training and technical assistance, and using her research skills for telling meaningful community stories.
Her professional life in Boston started in Boston Chinatown. She worked at Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University for twelve years as an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Director of ADAPT, a research partnership between Tufts and Chinatown. She also served as the Chair of the Friends of the Chinatown Library for eight years, a twenty-five year campaign to bring a branch library back to the community. During her tenure, she worked collaboratively with the City of Boston and Chinatown stakeholders to develop a request for proposals that will enable a branch library to be built in a mixed-use development with affordable housing.
In her creative life, she am working on a book of creative non-fiction and hoping to start a documentary project about the Chinatown library project. Her ideas about healing, growth, and transformation are informed by formal study of Ayurveda, reiki, and Narrative Healing. She is also a certified coach and studying different movement-based healing modalities such as qoya and qigong.
She holds a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University, a Masters of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego. She was born and raised in San Francisco and currently lives in Jamaica Plain with her husband and 10-year old son.
Collaborators
Andrea Atkinson
ConsultantAndrea Atkinson is a Latine facilitator, coach, and collaborative governance designer working at the intersection of our environment and collective liberation. Andrea’s global experience extends from the US, to Haiti, to Bolivia and beyond. She has facilitated diverse constituents - always centernig the leadership of grassroots, BIPOC community members - in leadership development, education, policy development and other action around racial, social, economic and environmental issues facing communities at the local and global scale.
Andrea has designed and facilitated processes such as Northeastern University’s Climate Justice Action Plan; the City of Providence Climate Justice Plan with the Racial and Environmental Justice Committee; Climate Justice Alliance’s Energy Democracy Working Group, leadership and staff processes; Barr Foundation climate team’s DEI philanthropic strategy; the development of Green Justice Zones in Providence, Rhode Island with Racial and Environmental Justice Committee; and the development of an equitable Building Emissions Performance Standard in Boston with Alternatives for Community and Environment. She is a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program.
Katrina Brink
consultantKatrina brings over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit, academic and philanthropic sectors. Specializing in facilitative leadership practices and data-informed strategies, her thoughtful and people-centered approach drives her work with dynamic and collaborative social impact initiatives.
Katrina builds stakeholder teams to plan and implement innovative, civically-engaged, constituent-centered ‘Cradle to Career’ initiatives. She works at the neighborhood, city, regional, state and national levels to implement collective action strategies in the context of schools, non profit organizations, institutions, and place-based initiatives. Katrina led successful projects in program development, evaluation, and research with the YMCA of Greater Boston, Boston Teachers Union, Project Hope, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Boston Public Schools, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at Wellesley College, the Youth Affairs Network of Queensland, Tufts University, Stuart Foundation and the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities at Stanford University. In 2018, along with other school, district, city, and nonprofit leaders, Katrina launched the Boston Hub Schools Consortium which marked a formalized and shared commitment for deepening, strengthening and sustaining community school strategies to accelerate student success and as a key lever for community development in Boston.
Katrina graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature (English and Spanish), she received her M.Phil. in Sociology of Education from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her facilitation practice was shaped by leadership development training from Coro of Northern California and the Institute for Interactive Social Change. She lives in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, MA.
Bionca St. Fleur
Founder and Principal, Meyotte ConsultingBionca St. Fleur is the Founder & Principal Consultant of Meyotte Consulting, a Boston-based boutique management consulting firm with global reach. Her passion is equipping leaders and teams with the capacity, strategic direction, and solutions needed to build more resilient and empowered communities locally and globally.
With a career rooted in global organizational and workforce transformation at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Ernst & Young across New York and London, she brings Fortune 500-caliber rigor to mission-driven clients. Her core expertise spans strategic planning, change management (Prosci/ADKAR certified), stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and training design and delivery.
Bionca is known for her ability to meet organizations where they are by building internal capacity, co-designing equitable processes, and translating complex challenges into actionable strategies. She has led high-stakes engagements in organizational racial equity, community-centered facilitation, and human-centered change, partnering with foundations, city governments, health departments, and small businesses. She holds a BBA in International Business from Temple University, is a former NCAA Division I athlete, and serves as a partner in Meyotte Contracting, a multigenerational construction firm with over 45 years of history in the Boston area.
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