Liaison Consulting

"Trusted by universities, government agencies and policy institutions."

Background

Lead Consultant, Jay (Jae) is a Public Health and Criminal Justice Researcher, Subject Matter Expert and Policy Analyst, advising institutions and delivering professional trainings since 2014. Liaison Consulting Services (LCS) was established in 2018 after several years of providing professional development training, supporting research projects, and extensive relationship building. Jay bridges professional seniority, academic scholar, lived experience, and community-informed evidence to advise organizations in best practices and harm reduction approaches in research, program development, law and policymaking to improve service delivery outcomes. Liaison Consulting Services holds NGO consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC consultative status) in collaboration with global human rights organizations since 2021. Her work annually contributes to discussions at The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on global access to HIV/STI prevention, education and treatment access as well as marginalized and criminalized worker occupational health and safety. Liaison Consulting Services include but are not limited to policy consultation, institutional training, keynote speaking, research collaboration, program development/evaluation and other academic collaborations.

Trusted By

LCS has collaborated with public health agencies, policy institutions, universities and community-based organizations. Jae’s research, training, and speaking engagements have included collaboration with:

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• The Center for (Court) Justice Innovation
• The Law and Society Association
• Cornell University
• University of North Carolina
• University of Indianapolis
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine

& others.

Media appearances include:

• NPR — The Brian Lehrer Show: Navigating Force and Choice findings
• POZ Magazine: HIV During Pandemics

Consulting & Institutional Training

"Complexity simplified. 'In Living Color' was unlike any other seminar at the conference. It was fun, real and thought provoking. Everyone was talking about it for the rest of the conference." -Yale Rebellious Lawyering Conference, 2025

For more than a decade Liaison Consulting Services has been working with universities, nonprofit organizations, and policymakers seeking to:

• Develop community informed research strategies
• Strengthen institutional understanding of hidden populations
• Support policy and program development

Organizations engage Jay for staff training, strategic consultation, and research-informed program design.

Signature Trainings & Workshops

Jae delivers fun, interactive & memorable research-informed lectures and workshops designed for conferences, summits, universities, professional entities, community-based organizations, medical, legal and public health institutions. Liaison Consulting Services offers tailored lectures, workshops and training.

Compassionate Care in Health & Human Service Settings- Public health & Clinical approaches

An interactive training for healthcare and social service professionals focused on improving care outcomes for hidden marginalized populations. Topics include policy and legislative impact on access to care, stigma as a barrier to care and compassionate engagement.

Criminal-Legal Awareness

The nuances in criminal-legal settings have real life impact with positive and negative ripple effects. What impact does your work create and what do the ripple effects look like? This training is designed to awaken and promote contagious awareness among criminal-legal practitioners around the impact of daily micro decisions and potential real world ripple effects. Topics covered include the impact and ripple effects of interpersonal professional relationships on outcomes, direct service real life individual impact and ripple effects.

Finding Your Niche- Professional development & leadership training

A workshop for emerging and established advocates interested in working with hidden populations. Participants explore values aligned positioning, professional identity development, and sustainable movement work. Also available as a three-part professional leadership certificate program.

In Living Color-Law, Policy, sex work & trafficking

A workshop designed for academics and public health, social work, criminal and legal practitioners examining evidence-based drivers shaping the experiences of sex workers and survivors of trafficking through research review, media analysis, and audience participation exercises.