September is here, which means Congress and the D.C. Council return from their August recess and life for consultant Heidi Ellis quickly gets busy.
Her days are filled with negotiating with Council members, phone calls with clients, and policy planning for advocacy groups.
The organizations she represents are looking to her to help them push policy and she hopes to guide them to victory. Ellis’s company, HME Consulting and Advocacy, came after years of working in the public and private sectors as a consultant.
In 2019, Ellis decided to shift her focus to work that stood at the center of the intersections in which she lives. She sought to figure out how she could better serve her community as a Black queer Latino woman.