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Whether you’re starting or evolving a purpose-centered business, organization, or project, or trying to tell a story that drives meaningful change in the world, JPoint Collaborative can help.
Recent Work
On the Right Track for Virginia's Rail Future
JPoint is helping the Richmond-based Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) shape its future by conducting leadership interviews and facilitating strategic planning exercises. As a relatively new organization, VPRA is working to implement their first strategic plan, and JPoint is helping their vision meet this exceptional moment.
Pediatric Care When it Matters Most
The team at JPoint has been working with UCSF's Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management (WRAP-EM) to turn complex medical knowledge into an accessible, effective, and engaging training curriculum, focused on delivering excellent pediatric care during disasters. Follow WRAP-EM to stay updated on this groundbreaking series.
Mapping a Safer Future
JPoint partnered with Texas A&M's Agrilife program to improve communication and engagement for the Texas Community Watershed Partners (TCWP). Through stakeholder interviews and strategic planning, we supported TCWP's mission to improve community resilience against coastal storms and flooding. Find out more about TCWP's impactful work with CHARM, a user-friendly collaborative mapping tool.
Out of the Fire and Into the Flood
For the past 20 years, JPoint team members have engaged in research and risk communication efforts related to both wildfire and flood risk. We have proudly supported federal and state partners working to reduce complex, acute flood risk, such as that from Flood After Fire.
Where there's smoke...there's help
The team at JPoint Collaborative recently supported Emerge Technologies and the California Department of Public Health in putting together a comprehensive set of guidelines on how to deal with wildfire smoke. The document is available here, and while it was designed for California audiences, its up-to-date information is applicable to anyplace wildfire smoke spreads. The guide’s crisp design and concise language features what JPoint does best: effective communication design for the most difficult topics and situations.
What is the JPoint Collaborative?
We are a queer-, women-owned small business (SWaM and WOSB certified). The ‘collaborative’ in our name refers both to how we work with our clients, and how our business operates internally. We employ an interdisciplinary, non-traditional, non-hierarchical approach to solving problems across and between fields and silos. We work closely with our clients to co-create solutions that work in the real world, providing the structures and background to help our clients think through what they want to accomplish, and how best to get there, while incorporating inputs from multiple sources at every step.
Taken in part from models like the artist collective and employee-managed manufacturing, a collaborative provides an alternative, equity-centered way to work on today’s biggest challenges. We provide our ‘collaborators’ (experienced consultants with a range of capabilities) with the creative flexibility to learn, grow, cross-pollinate, and test new ideas in a supportive team environment that enables our clients to best meet the moment. Contact us if you would like to learn more about the collaborative model.
Collaborative Capabilities
Affiliations
As a certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned, and Minority-owned business (SWaM) and a member of Richmond’s LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, we are committed to inclusive partnerships and bringing diverse perspectives to the work we do.
Collaborators
Destiny Aman
any/all pronouns
Founder + CEO
Destiny has been described as a “Swiss Army Knife” of tools and expertise. She is a nerd of many things - especially for making difficult and complex topics understandable and approachable. She brings a playful enthusiasm to her work, and she cares a lot about people.
Holding a Masters degree in geography and All But Dissertation (ABD) for her Ph.D., Destiny has over 20 years of experience designing and executing projects that put research into practice. An engaging storyteller, she has been invited to speak on topics ranging from improving participation in flood insurance programs, to wildfire communication, environmental change, and designing for the public good.
Destiny Aman (Founder + CEO)
Kate Hochstein
she/her/hers
Partner + COO
Kate’s expertise goes beyond that of a traditional manager. She’s more like a team captain – encouraging and guiding from alongside and never shying away from throwing in to get the job done.
Kate holds her MBA from UNC Chapel Hill, has her Project Management Professional Certification from PMI, and has over a decade of experience managing complex projects. She has served as the program/contract manager for multiple multi-million dollar prime contracts for several Federal agencies, coordinating several subcontracting firms and over 100 team members. In part for that work, Kate was honored as an AAPI Next Generation National Security & Foreign Policy Leader.
Beyond her enthusiasm for spreadsheets and org charts, Kate also appreciates winning the occasional overly-competitive game of squash.
Kate Hochstein (Partner + COO)
Get In Touch
Independent consultants: JPoint will be looking to add experienced collaborators to the team over the next six months. Contact us to learn more about Collaborative structure and benefits and to be updated when seats are available. Priority capabilities sought:
- Project management, business operations, execution
- Data analysis & visualization
- Stakeholder engagement, network mapping & activation, voluntary associations
- Public health communications
