Community Possibilities

Are You Having a Social Impact? Meet Lovely Dhillon

October 19, 2022 Season 2 Episode 33
Community Possibilities
Are You Having a Social Impact? Meet Lovely Dhillon
Show Notes

In this episode, Lovely Dhillon joins me to talk about a range of topics from why she made the move from law to work in foundations, and now, consulting. Lovely shares her experience as a BIPOC woman from an immigrant family and how having  breast cancer changed her.  My favorite moment? She advises us to look for the "tender moments" of transition in social change organizations and to consider their impact throughout the organization and community. Lovely offers some great advice for creating social change. We also talk about:

  • Listening for what is behind what's being said. 
  • How its different working with large and small organizations.
  • Her profound question: Are we having the impact we want to have and what is standing in our way?
  • Visionary evaluation and how it relates to social change.
  • What is a Theory of Change?

Lovely A. Dhillon, JD Bio 

Lovely is the CEO of Jodevi Consulting, a firm partnering with philanthropies, nonprofits, and businesses globally to create positive social change. Prior to founding Jodevi, Lovely served as the first Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning, Management and Evaluation of the Advocacy and Policy division for the U.S. Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founded the Civil Rights and Equity Organizations portfolio. Lovely also served as Vice President of ORS Impact, an evaluation firm specializing in advocacy evaluation, where she built and led the Strategic Planning and Businesses with Social Impact areas of practice.

As a lawyer, Lovely was the Executive Director of the Law School Consortium Project, that increased the affordability and accessibility of legal services to underrepresented communities and was awarded the American Bar Association’s Louis M. Brown Award for Innovation in Legal Access; served as Assistant District Attorney for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office where she prosecuted Hate Crimes and Domestic Violence cases; and was the Executive Director of the California Minority Counsel Program, a collaborative of Fortune 500 companies, law firms, and bar associations working to increase equity in legal practice.

Lovely is the co-author of the book “Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future” published in January 2020 by Information Age Publications. Lovely is also the co-author of “Refining Theories of Change” published in The Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation.

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