Najla Gomez is an organizer, coach, and consultant with over 12 years of experience in social justice movements. As an immigrant Xicana woman deeply influenced by Black feminism, she believes true liberation requires dismantling all systems of oppression. Her approach is bold, affirming, iterative, and emergent—integrating politics, spirituality, and deep relational practice.

Najla’s expertise spans housing justice, education equity, and organizational transformation. She has:

• Helped community leaders secure millions for affordable housing and tenant protections.

• Led capacity-building efforts for school, district, and county staff to elevate student and family leadership in decision-making.

• Co-led Professional Learning Networks across California, advancing Relationship-Centered Schools and student-driven equity efforts.

• Co-led the State Transformational Assistance Center (STAC), overseeing a 10-year, $4.1 billion initiative to transform California’s education system, supporting thousands of schools statewide.

  She specializes in guiding organizations through:

• Anti-Blackness and white supremacy culture analysis

• Navigating the contradictions of liberatory work within the non-profit industrial complex

• Deepening alignment between values and practice

• Organizational assessments, leadership transitions, and strategic planning

Recent Consulting & Coaching Work

Najla has worked with a range of organizations to support leadership transitions, strategic planning, organizational assessments, and conflict resolution. She has partnered with SOMOS Mayfair, Oakland Rising, EBASE, and Working Partnerships USA to strengthen executive leadership, governance, and team dynamics. She has also collaborated with Stanford Medicine’s Office of Community Engagement to design reflective processes centering marginalized voices and worked with grassroots organizations to deepen alignment between their values and practices. Through coaching, facilitation, and tailored interventions, she helps movement organizations navigate change, embody liberatory leadership, and build sustainable, justice-centered practices.

Ideal Partners

Najla works best with organizations and leaders committed to their own healing and willing to step outside their comfort zones to move toward greater alignment and transformation. She partners with teams eager to interrogate systemic barriers, deepen liberatory practices, and cultivate organizational cultures rooted in justice and care.

As a coach, Najla specializes in working with women of color, young organizers and activists, rising Directors in movement organizations, creatives/artists, and immigrants. She supports her coaching partners in navigating the contradictions of liberatory work, examining how anti-Blackness and white supremacy culture show up intimately and systemically, and stepping into leadership that advances Black Liberation.

Her ideal coaching partners are those ready to do deep, necessary work—leaders who are open to discomfort, growth, and alignment with their values. They are dedicated to collective liberation and to imagining and building a world where everyone can thrive.