Lillian M. Green is CEO and founder of North Star Forward Consulting LLC. She has worked as a teacher, school district leader, professor, and state agency director. Most recently, she led the integration of equity and inclusion into the early learning system for the state of Oregon as the Equity Director of the Early Learning Division. She has 10+ years of experience in the field of education and equitable policy development. Ms. Green is also a fourth-year Education Leadership EdD student, interested in exploring how critical consciousness is developed and cultivated in agencies as a tool to create equitable practices, policies, and procedures. Ms. Green views her life’s mission as one in the service of communities.

She believes that every organization has the responsibility to provide equitable services. To make this possible, she believes that we all have to critically analyze the systems that we operate in and interrupt institutional racism and oppression that causes and perpetuates disparate educational and health outcomes.