About Jenise

Jenise Katalina is the founder of Rise Leadership and Coaching, LLC, an equity and inclusion firm working with businesses to implement inclusive leadership strategies and supporting women of color in achieving career success. She is also the creator of Kindred Healing Counseling Services, a mental health therapeutic support agency specializing in utilizing a liberation lens to address intergenerational/ racial trauma and perinatal mental health. 

Jenise's experience most recently includes a position offering technical assistance and training to program management of a state wide home visiting program. Within this role, she supports management in developing the skills to provide effective reflective supervision and inclusive leadership. She trains statewide leaders on multiple topics related to supervision and program development, including Cultural Humility in Supervision and Programming.

Jenise also serves as the Vice President of the Board of Directors and Co-Executive Director for the Women of Color Health Equity Collect, a movement building nonprofit organization based out of Western Mass that is focused on supporting women and girls of color achieving their optimal health and well-being. 

In her previous roles, Jenise served as Vice President of Family Services at a community based non-profit in Springfield, Massachusetts. She joined the team in September of 2011 as a direct care staff and quickly excelled through multiple managerial positions. Jenise has lead the development of multiple family support programs and upheld quality standards of state and federally funded programs.

In her position as Vice President, she has implemented change within the recruitment, hiring and retention of diverse staff. She has mentored female employees and supported their career advancement through her application of skills in Inclusive Leadership and Reflective Supervision. 

Jenise's prior experience includes serving for six years as a supervisor in a Springfield-based residential program for latency-age children struggling with emotional and behavioral challenges related to trauma. Her prior experience also includes the supervision and coordination of after-school programs and gang aversion programs for teen youth within Springfield. 

Jenise received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Westfield State University and her Master of Social Work degree from Springfield College. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts and teaches at the graduate level for each of her alma mater's social work programs. 

Jenise has studied under the founders of the Culturally Humility Framework and has offered technical assistance and training to multiple institutions striving to incorporate a Racial Equity lens into their institution, especially within recruitment, hiring and management.

Jenise currently serves on a national collective group focused on racial equity and cultural humility in home visiting, as well as multiple state and community level workgroups focused on racial justice and equity.