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Peter Hardie
Senior Consultant
Peter Hardie is an experienced nonprofit leader, community builder, and consultant with a social justice career spanning 25 years. His diverse experience in community organizations – as a teacher, union representative, campaign manager, community leader, and executive director – grounds his facilitative approach to consulting. Describing his consulting philosophy, he notes:
“There’s a lot of strength and capacity in places where we only see problems. I don’t like to start with ‘what’s wrong?’ but ‘what’s next?’ You can spend lots of time figuring out what’s wrong, but the real question is, ‘what is everybody prepared to do?’”
Consulting is the culmination of Peter’s longstanding commitment to creating justice in communities. As an undergraduate and then a community organizer, his early work was focused on economic issues affecting low-wage workers, police brutality, and women’s rights. He worked in labor as an organizer focused on issues of inclusion for people of color, and also as a campaign manager for the first Latino to serve in the Massachusetts legislator.
More recently, Peter has held leadership positions in major national and community-based organizations. He was Vice President of TransAfrica Forum, a major national advocacy organization, and Executive Director of Roxbury YouthWorks, a community-based youth development organization.
Since joining MAG, Peter’s clients have included the Center for Research and Technical Assistance, Fund for Afghan Women, Detroit NAACP, Global Rights, and Forum for Youth Investment. His publications include The Zen of Leadership (read it at Non-Profit Quarterly) and Apartheid Still Matters: Framing an African-American Internationalism (read it at Black Commentator).
“There’s a lot of strength and capacity in places where we only see problems. I don’t like to start with ‘what’s wrong?’ but ‘what’s next?’ You can spend lots of time figuring out what’s wrong, but the real question is, ‘what is everybody prepared to do?’”
Consulting is the culmination of Peter’s longstanding commitment to creating justice in communities. As an undergraduate and then a community organizer, his early work was focused on economic issues affecting low-wage workers, police brutality, and women’s rights. He worked in labor as an organizer focused on issues of inclusion for people of color, and also as a campaign manager for the first Latino to serve in the Massachusetts legislator.
More recently, Peter has held leadership positions in major national and community-based organizations. He was Vice President of TransAfrica Forum, a major national advocacy organization, and Executive Director of Roxbury YouthWorks, a community-based youth development organization.
Since joining MAG, Peter’s clients have included the Center for Research and Technical Assistance, Fund for Afghan Women, Detroit NAACP, Global Rights, and Forum for Youth Investment. His publications include The Zen of Leadership (read it at Non-Profit Quarterly) and Apartheid Still Matters: Framing an African-American Internationalism (read it at Black Commentator).