"As a consultant and collaborator, Gayathri’s guidance and contributions are invaluable. She has a remarkable ability to take in a broad swath of information and transform it to purposeful guidance, foresee challenges and help you avert them, and serve the needs of the project while also showing you how you can elevate the reach of your work. Most recently, I engaged Gayathri to facilitate a community focus group to hear diverse Calgarians’ perspectives, needs and barriers to engagement in opera. Her facilitation created an environment of trust, inclusion, and honest dialogue. Our learnings are now informing our future strategic programming decisions, particularly in fostering inclusive community engagement and expand access to artistic expression."

"During our work together, Gayathri delivered training for over 500 leaders over a course of 3 months. She skillfully created spaces where participants could learn how to enter conversations of antiracism with an open heart and mind. Through a strategic deepening of capability in storytelling and empathy, I witnessed how her interactions with staff and the senior team resulted in positive system change at the Calgary Board of Education. Gayathri’s work has led us to engage in meaningful actions to improve learning and well-being for students."

"The Breaking Barriers project is very close to my heart, and collaborating with Gayathri and the Campfire Kinship team was a no-brainer. This project is not just about the quantitative data, but about the women behind it. Gayathri and her team are empathetic to participants' experiences, pushing to understand the intersectionality as we develop the resources needed to create systemic change. Gayathri has created an environment of open and safe communication with the project team and the participants. It is such a pleasure working with Gayathri and her team."

"Gayathri was our guest speaker at a leadership conference. I was enthralled with her talent to bring people together through storytelling. Gayathri fully connects with others and gives them the awareness of the importance of using life stories to lead others in learning, growth, and ultimately success. I continued to follow Gayathri and Campfire Kinship on LinkedIn after our session, through their newsletter, and celebrating the work she, and other women who immigrated to Canada, have done in their book, Landed. I continue to learn more about the lived experiences of others through the amazing work Gayathri and Campfire Kinship do, helping me to think more about what that lived experience could be for the person I am interacting with. I am more open, listen more to hear, and give more space. Gayathri is an impactful speaker, leader, and advocate who gifts others with empathy, awareness, and grace by sharing her stories!"

"Campfire Kinship and Gayathri's humble call to action at a speaking event last year led to my own recognition of ways I could use my story to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging conversations. Her generous encouragement along the way has created space for me to do this work as a personal time investment. Learning from her work and the work of other DEIB experts, I see better ways for how I can aid those most impacted by a system that lacks belonging and also check and change my own behaviours. Gayathri, congrats on bravely using Campfire Kinship to leave the world a little better than you found it through profound storytelling."

"Over the past year I have had the distinct pleasure of getting to know Gayathri through our mutual passion for equity, diversity and inclusion, and her book Landed. I have attended external speaking engagements as well as witnessed her passion for storytelling through a workshop with our Canadian staff. She is an expert in her field, an engaging speaker and has been a highlight for our team. Thank you, Gayathri, for your courage, passion and authenticity! I look forward to continuing to work with you in the future."

“Gayathri has a very honest and sincere facilitator presence that helps participants to open up, connect with one another, and interact effectively with her workshop content. Students enjoyed the storytelling technique and were able to extract insights and applications to help them know themselves, believe in their abilities, and build their confidence.”

Gayathri supported us in building a Belonging Roadmap and Framework, and its implementation through tailored training and policy development. Her ability to connect interpersonal practices to broader system dynamics has created a clear pathway for cultural transformation within our organization and in our community-facing work. Her skillset to translate lived experience into insight — and insight into action — directly supports our mission to advance equitable, inclusive, and violence-free futures.