About
Hello! My name is Laurel Albina
I am an organizational development consultant and conflict management practitioner.
For almost twenty years I have worked in both Canada and the United States as a professional negotiator and engagement facilitator. In 2021 I started my own practice, Albina Strategic, to serve and support communities, organizations and individuals to manage conflict, communicate, and collaborate–using a values-based and equity-informed approach.
I am an experienced and transformative process designer–working with individuals and groups to analyze what’s needed and develop engagements that uncover and address the hopes, challenges, and opportunities of any given moment.
Fundamental to my own learning journey and professional development has been an education and commitment to understand how racism, colonization, and systemic oppression impacts our ability to connect, collaborate, and make change.
I am committed to bringing an anti-racist and decolonial framework to all my work and deeply value partnering with collaborators outside my lived experience.
More personally, I am a white-presenting Palestinian American. My parents (separate and respectively) immigrated to Canada before I was born and I grew up like many kids, straddling two worlds and two ways of knowing; my young life was full of contradictions, complicated relationships, and surprising beauty—all of which inform who I am and how I practice this work.
I’m excited to meet you!
#LandBack
I am grateful to rest, recreate, and work on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people which include the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) peoples.
I am committed to continuing to understand my role in land back, decolonization, truth and reconciliation, and Indigenous sovereignty.