Offerings
Rae Abileah is a creative change strategist who can organize your next event, book project, campaign strategy, ritual, home and hearth.
Here’s what I can do for you:
Editing & Content Writing
Writing a book? Seeking to publish an article? Creating a presentation or speech? Rae is a published author and skillful editor who can help polish your piece toward print.
Nonfiction and memoir book editing
Writing website content
Curating and managing email communiques
Speech and presentation crafting
Reviews of books and programs
Portfolio highlights
Edited numerous books toward publication
10+ years writing email blasts for organizations from family-owned small businesses to national nonprofits of 300k+ membership
15+ years writing and editing content for websites and print including campaign content, press releases, articles, flyers, news summaries
Written and ghostwritten numerous quotes and reviews of publications and campaigns
Contributing author to numerous anthologies including:
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution
Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists
Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories By Women
Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook
“Whether she’s wiring in political travel dispatches from the frontlines of global conflicts, or carefully laying out the tactical considerations for how to sneak into the citadels of rogue power and steal the spotlight, Rae Abileah can write. I know, because she’s my editor. Oy.”
Event Production
Rae has organized hundreds of gatherings — from large rallies to conferences to weddings to meditation & ancestral healing retreats. Invite her to manage your next special event.
Administrative support for events including registration, payment, online tools
Communication with participants in advance, during, and after the event
Social media and marketing, outreach and promotion packages
Event planning - down to the finest print detail!
Catering and potluck coordination
Schedule design and presentation
A/V support
Retreat manager
Focus on making events inclusive and drawing forth beloved community to gather round
Portfolio highlights
Coordinated large conferences from Washington, DC to San Francisco
Organized staff retreats
Planned several national speaking tours and book tours
Extensive PR experience for events, campaigns, and book and album releases that have landed hundreds of media hits
Coordinated activist training camps
Managed an activist house in DC for 2 years + numerous online home rental listings
Ceremony Officiant
Ritual can add value and meaning to our everyday lives, mark significant transitions, celebrate births and unions, help us face grief and loss, and create a container for prayer and longing.
As an ordained Kohenet Hebrew Priestess and longtime ritual practitioner, Rae can help you craft a bespoke ritual for your special occasion.
Life cycle rituals for individuals and couples including baby naming and weddings
Ritual design consultation for families, groups, organizations, and campaigns
Earth-based rituals to honor a specific place or season
Incorporate your well ancestors and the spirits of the land you are on
Portfolio highlights
Officiated numerous weddings in destinations from Joshua Tree to New York, baby naming ceremonies, and life cycle transition rituals such as relationship separation, new home consecration, job change, and business launches.
Ordained Kohenet Hebrew Priestess, member of the Kehunah professional network
“Rae’s guidance around my wedding was a key ingredient to have a ceremony that profoundly touched every single participant, and left my partner and I feeling like we’d created something way more powerful than just a wedding, beyond what we could have imagined. Rae held an impeccable container by fielding all of our inquiries and fuzzy visions and guiding us to a clear, empowering, magical vision. She also helped us see how the wedding was a major rite of passage for our whole family, and to make room for everyone’s experience without short-changing our vision. The sacred magic and high romance of our wedding carries us still, years later, and everyone continues to tell us that it was the best wedding they’ve ever been to. I’m so proud of what we created and it would not have been the deep blessing it was without Rae. We are forever grateful.”
Transformative Ritual
Weave meaningful ritual into your next social action.
- Get support creating a ritual within your social change campaign or action.
Portfolio highlights
Co-creator of The Climate Ribbon, a global participatory arts ritual for climate grief and hope
Ritual consultant & ritual guide co-author for the Climate Time Capsule Day of Dedication events across the US with the Sunrise Movement in November, 2018
Bring the Climate Ribbon arts ritual to your next gathering.
Our collective is available to come to your community, faith institution, board meeting, or conference to facilitate this transformative ritual. More at www.theclimateribbon.org.
“In order to win, social movements don’t just need good organizing, they need heart. They need spirit. They need the kind of organizers who aren’t just great in managing spreadsheets, but are capable of guiding people to dig down deep, to find their core motivations and inner resources, and commit to the long haul. Rae Abileah is one of those rare organizers who somehow, is able to do all of these things at once.”
“One of the many delicious qualities I love about Rae is how she leads ritual from her deepest, most authentic self – a self whose spiritually is totally blended with her activism. She’s also very fluid, attuned to the present and her surroundings, able to adapt and respond to whatever is needed in the moment. Rae draws us in, connects us to one another, is inclusive and loving and totally joyful – making us all feel seen and held. It’s simply uplifting to be in her presence.”
Strategic Consulting
Experienced consulting on creating winning campaigns & dynamic organizational structure.
Create the building blocks for a winning campaign
Map your ecosystem
Break big problems into achievable goals
Use the tools of economic activism - boycott, divestment and sanctions - to make an impact
Portfolio highlights
National organizer and co-director of CODEPINK Women for Peace for nearly 10 years
Consultant at ThoughtWorks on digital strategy and organizational design for two years
Background in issue areas: militarism, racial justice, climate change, food justice, Palestine/Israel
“Rae is a dedicated, passionate, generous, creative and brilliant organizer. Her work with CODEPINK Women for Peace not only lifted up the organization, but has lifted up the national anti-war movement. Rae is truly gifted in the art of bringing people together and helping them feel part of something bigger than themselves. She is one of those leaders that always puts others before herself, creating new leadership wherever she goes. Most of all, Rae offers courage and commitment rarely seen these days. What a treat it would be for anyone to have the opportunity to work with her.”
Facilitator, Trainer & Public Speaker
Trainings, facilitation, & public speaking for your organization,
school, company event
Topics on creative social change & inspired action include: Grassroots organizing; Creative actions; Campaign strategy; BDS (consumer boycotts, institutional divestment): Jewish narrative & activism; Environmental injustice & climate change; Media & digital tools; Intersectional work
Uses the Jemez Principles for inclusive, decolonizing organizing
Portfolio highlights
15+ years experience facilitating groups and strategy sessions for nonprofit organizations, coalition meetings, strategy sessions, and group activities
Rae is one of the recommended speakers on the Together We Rise speakers bureau
Led and designed trainings for Beautiful Trouble on nonviolent direct action and creative action tactics at universities, nonprofits, and the national Jewish Voice for Peace conferences
Past public speaking has ranged from rallies of thousands of people to tech conferences with hundreds, to small, customized workshops with an intimate circle
Keynote speaker at large events such as Korbel School of International Studies at Denver University (2016), ThoughtWorks North America and Brazil conferences (2011-12), Agile India technology conference in Bangalore, India (2014), The Russell Tribunal on Palestine in London, England (2011), PIRG youth organizing conference in Tennessee (2007), Valedictorian speech (2000)
Featured speaker on tours such as North Dakota Peace Coalition speaking tour (2006), Women Say No to War speaking tour (2006), Donne di Pace speaking tour in Italy (2005)
Presented at numerous conferences such as Bioneers, Progressive Democrats of America, The Nation, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), US Social Forum
2 years experience facilitating digital strategy sessions at ThoughtWorks
Facilitator for 2-day strategy session for the American Friends Service Committee's Economic Activism campaign
Devorah (teacher assistant) for Kohenet Institute training weeks
Get it done
Get help to declutter your life and home, and find ease and harmony in your everyday.
Home organizing consultations
Roll up your sleeves and get to work sprint sessions
Decluttering fun: Let me plan your next clothing swap with friends & manage your donations to local community support centers
PORTFOLIO HIGHLIGHTS
Coordinated numerous work sprint sessions for one-on-one and small team work to finish projects
Organized tons of fun clothing swaps in the Bay Area, Boulder, NYC, and LA... everyone went home looking fabulous, guaranteed! ;)
Digital Strategy Support
Online organizing tools to make your projects come to life.
Software and platforms: Wordpress, Squarespace, Mailchimp, Google Drive/Google Apps, MS Office, Mac OS X, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Hootsuite, Basecamp, Trello, Loomio, Salsa, Action Network, ActionKit, Toggl, Calendly
Part of a diverse network of consultants on digital strategy, custom coding, and website builds
PORTFOLIO HIGHLIGHTS
2 years experience working at ThoughtWorks
Helped created online organizing strategy and communications while working at CODEPINK Women for Peace
Numerous successful online fundraising campaigns
“On the closing day of my IndieGogo, I was aware that the campaign has been as epically fun, transformative, and powerful as it has been for me in large part because of Rae believing in me and my gifts, and for bringing hers to make magic with me. Rae’s wildly positive, life-affirming, joy-engaging attitude invited a reframe toward leading with Yes. Rae’s strategic thinking challenged and supported me to ride my edge toward increased focused meeting of my goals. Her enthusiasm and leading wisely with heart have — actually — changed the way I approach life, work, choices and possibilities.”