Advocating for Social Change: Meet Kathleen Sullivan

Kathleen M. Sullivan is principal of Fine Gauge Strategy, LLC (Fine Gauge), a consulting firm based near Boston, Massachusetts. Since 2010, Fine Gauge has provided learning, measurement, evaluation, and strategy services for policy advocates, community organizers, legal and law-reform organizations, and philanthropic foundations. Fine Gauge clients include leaders in the civil rights, human rights, migration, and social change sectors. 

Fine Gauge has reviewed organizing and advocacy programs and grant portfolios serving, among others, undocumented immigrant youth, LGBTQ+ children in out-of-home placements, activists countering white nationalism in small and rural US communities, and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities facing the challenges of the Trump Administration. Most recently, Fine Gauge completed a review of the Ford Foundation’s 2015-2020 Immigrant Rights portfolio strategy. With her colleague David Shorr, a local elected official in Wisconsin, Kathleen writes for public policy blogs on strategic lessons from policy-reform campaigns. 

Kathleen is a lawyer by training. Earlier in her career, Kathleen represented low-income people in immigration court, taught immigration law as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, advocated before Congress and federal regulatory agencies, and served briefly as Counsel to the US Senate Subcommittee on Immigration. As a nonprofit program manager she supported human rights investigators examining physician complicity in “national security” torture during the Bush Administration, and a nationwide project that deployed lawyers to represent children and asylum seekers in immigration detention.

Outside of work, Kathleen enjoys hiking, skiing, and the Boston area’s remarkable music and art scenes.

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