Gilary Massa (She/Her) is a strategist, educator, and coach who has spent over a decade helping organizations confront inequities and transform how they lead. She has worked in Canada, the United States, and Panama with advocacy organizations, labour unions, school boards, government agencies, and community-based groups, bringing a justice-centered lens to strategy, leadership, and organizational development. With roots in both the labour and student movements, Gilary knows firsthand what it takes to organize, mobilize, and drive systems change that is accountable to the people most impacted.

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Her practice integrates coaching, equity audits, human-centered policy design, training, and evaluation to support organizations ready to move beyond statements of intent toward measurable transformation. She works with leaders and teams to disrupt barriers, expand whose voices are included in decision-making, and embed equity into policies and practices. As a Co-Active coach-in-training with credentials in human-centered leadership and design, Gilary bridges technical expertise with the ability to foster honest dialogue, build collective ownership, and push organizations to reimagine what inclusion truly looks like.

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As a Black, immigrant, Muslim woman, Gilary brings lived experience navigating the structural inequities she now works to dismantle. She grounds her practice in a deep commitment to justice and community, ensuring that institutional and government systems reflect the needs and wisdom of those most often excluded. Holding a Master’s in Leadership and Community Engagement from York University, where her research explored equity as a roadmap for organizational change, she combines scholarly insight with a track record of advocacy and results, making her a powerful ally for justice-oriented transformation.