Kaia serves as an advisor and resource to various communities across the nation.

[Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock lectured at Harvard's Memorial Church, moderated by Kaia Stern]

Vital conversations and intergenerational dialogue across difference are essential to Kaia's work, and she has proven success in leadership that supports innovation, organizational wellness, strategic partnerships, and transformation.  

Kaia knows how to listen, convene, and support people. Whether among artists, activists or academics, faith leaders, funders or law enforcement agencies, community-based organizations, universities or the US Department of Justice, she is skilled at facilitating constructive conversations that include various perspectives. Kaia’s most recent workshops focus on Origin Stories and How We Create Community. For a partial list of organizations that have benefited from her decades of advising/consulting, please see below:

On Justice, Dignity, and Human Rights


The White House

U.S. Department of Justice

Harvard Law School

The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy

#Cut50 (sponsored by the ACLU and Koch Brothers

On Education and Law


Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Kings County District Attorney’s Office

National Alliance for Higher Education in Prison

Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department

Massachusetts Department of Correction

University of Gothenburg

On Community Safety and Public Health


Federal Bureau of Investigation

Vera Institute of Justice

Open Society Institute

Concord Prison Outreach

Public Works Alliance

On Faith and Healing


The Riverside Church

Harvard’s Memorial Church

Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Truth Commission on Conscience in War

Virginia Department of Corrections

On Belonging and Dialogue Across Difference


Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Harvard Divinity School

Cambridge Friends School