Picture Impact is a small, nimble, women-owned company with a global network of partners. Our four interwoven practices of listening, framing, making, and learning draw on our expertise in evaluation, design and strategy. We live and are based in the unceded homelands of the Lakota and Anishinaabe people. We work globally, most often with projects and teams in sub-Saharan Africa. Our portfolio is wide-ranging in subject matter—from HIV/OVC case management, to smallholder agriculture, to highlighting and scaling program innovations, to supporting child and maternal health.

Our approach is complexity-aware, people-centered and utilization-focused. We look at people and behavior, think in systems, and find ideas and perspectives across silos and sectors. We apply this approach in a diverse array of contexts, subjects, and purposes. What ties this work together is how we intentionally activate and support the change process while enhancing the capacity of program users and implementers.

I thought you might also find resonance and/or use in our commitment to working on anti-racism:

As a design and learning studio owned by two white, educated women working internationally—practicing in many different contexts across Africa—it is abundantly clear that we must fearlessly and critically interrogate ourselves and the systems in which we operate.

Anti-black racism, colonialism, white supremacy culture, occupation of native lands, and many intersecting axes of oppression are intimately intertwined with our work. We recognize that dismantling these systems and beliefs, re-imagining right relationships and wholeness, and catalyzing transformation is the work of a lifetime.

As a company it is important to us that all team members are open to these conversations, walking their own journey and interrogating how these issues show up and influence their own lived experiences. We find value in working hard to show up in new ways together.