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Salaam alaikum! My name is  Laila R. Makled (they/he). I also go by Amir!

I am a full-spectrum Event Producer, and a Facilitation, Communication, and Radical Mental Health First Aide Educator and Peer-Support Worker. I am also a Writer, Mutual Aid Organizer, Operations Worker and Project Manager.

I have created free tools such as the Beginners Guide to Event Accessibility, Impactful Gatherings Workbook and Resource Guide, and The Basics of an Impactful Agenda because I am passionate about ensuring folks have access to the foundations needed for care-focused and accessibility-centered gatherings and facilitation.

I have a proven 12+ year track record in organizing and facilitating impactful projects, parties, educational events, conferences, retreats, rallies, and festivals from conception to closeout.

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I am committed to working with community-centered groups and people. I offer public workshops, custom capacity building programs, event and programming logistics and consulting, and coaching and peer support.

My work is trauma and power-informed, disability justice-centered, somatic and pleasure-based, grief spacious, and global majority-affirming.

I am disabled, autistic, gender fluid, 2nd gen, and mixed Arab Indigenous (Lebanese & Palestinian) white (western European).

Some more things about me are…I am an aspiring model/TV commentator & host, and dabke dancer, and my mom is very special to me.

I am an ongoing student of Healing Justice, Black feminist wisdom, indigenous land wisdom, and queerness as political orientations.

View my full resume here. See what people say about working with me: Testimonials 

Here are some projects folks have hired me for!

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Photo Credit Caravan Film Crew

  • Served as lead organizer and campaign manager of two rallies/press conferences hosted at the California State Capitol with over 150 attendees, and international news coverage

  • Developed a 4-track, full-day program around drug policy & harm reduction advocacy for the National Cannabis Festival for five years

  • Developed and facilitated two 10-hour education programs for six-eight facilitators on trauma-informed, somatic-based facilitation, de-escalation techniques, feedback, and communication

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Moving supplies for the Media Justice Team Retreat

  • Supported a Director of Operations in managing a $150k budget, vendor contracts, food, accessibility, COVID-19 safety and staff communication and travel logistics of 4-day staff retreat for 30 attendees

  • Developed and presented eight 90-minute workshops to 60-200 people, as well as advised 40+ grantees 1-on-1 on accessibility-centered event facilitation and decision making; confidence; restorative justice & financial repair; values aligned-management; and giving and receiving feedback.

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“Life Cyle of a Boundary” Workshop for Restore Oakland’s HOPE Circle

  • Created space for a small team who navigated many Executive Director transitions over the years and collaboratively developed a plan to move forward and re-establish trust

  • Gave a training and collaboratively created a resource support Zine for a tenants rights organization to support their help phone line staff members in supporting folks who are expressing suicidal ideation

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Group of diverse people on steps protesting with signs, including a woman at the podium speaking, wearing masks, outside a government building. Signs include messages like "End the Culivatation Tax," "The Choice is Clear, No Cannabis Tax Here," and "No Drug War 2.0 Rally."

Photo Credit: Caravan Film Crew, Supernova Women Press Conference

“I can say hard things” workshop at an outdoor queer festival

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