Social justice consultant, certified coach & wilderness guide
Light River Consulting supports people and organizations to build movement ecologies that co-create and practice mutual stewardship, building conditions that value life by ending systems of violence, domination, and oppression.
Born and raised on Lenape land, currently residing on Tongva/Kizh/Gabrieleno land. My family is from the ancestral lands of Udo, Corea and Suncheon, Corea.
Enji Chung Esq. Principal
she/theyEnji is a certified coach and facilitator and former public defender, who runs her own social justice consultant practice called Light River Consulting. They are both an organizational development and process consultant and are focused on training people, developing curriculum, and facilitating processes that address conflict, oppression, violence, in a variety of settings.
For over 25 years, she has worked to end gender and racial violence in policing systems and organizational formations. As a second generation Corean, her approach is rooted in transformative justice, community accountability, and other non-police community approaches to violence and conflict.
Chung received their J.D. from UCLA School of Law – David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, and their M.S. in Leadership for Sustainability at the University of Vermont’s Natural Resources Department, focusing on studying complex systems within domination and oppression, personal transformation, and thriving ecosystems. One of her current main projects is developing a comprehensive legal resource guide on the criminalization of abortion and gender affirming care with Interrupting Criminalization. They are a cofounder of Free The People (FTP) Fund, a bail fund in Los Angeles, and a board member of Success Stories Program. They currently reside on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Kizh, and Gabrielenos. They are co-author of Non Police Crisis Response Guide and Navigating Public Safety Task Forces.
Photo by Enji Chung
“I’m committed to building community and deeper relationships that create the conditions to end extraction, domination, and oppression.”
— Enji Chung
Core Values
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Way of life; we’re all interconnected; inter-being.
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Accountable to self and others
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Building towards a world without prisons, police and gender violence
Services
Facilitator (short term)
Facilitate one-time or multiple gatherings, retreats, and strategy sessions to support groups to tap into their best and most transformational selves, in service of creating creative, emergent, strategic paths forward.
Facilitator (long term)
Design and facilitate longer-term series (virtual and in-person) to deepen relationships, strengthen shared purpose, explore emergent projects, and develop strategy. Introduce and explore physical and nature-based, healing-centered practices to develop awareness and capacity for change.
Certified Coaching
Transformative leadership, team coaching, cultivating readiness for change. Support people to tap into creativity, intuition, body-based awareness and play. Encourage people to be in deeper and freer relationship to share feelings in order to build capacity for change and open up strategic possibilities.
Transformative Justice
Design and facilitate transformative justice learning labs or trainings. Support organizations to create internal systems that support transformative justice approaches to harm and conflict.
Conflict Transformation
Create, design and facilitate conflict mediation, conflict transformation, or conflict skills.
Wilderness Guide
Design, organize, and facilitate healing outdoor gatherings, retreats, and objectives to create healing spaces and outdoor survival skills, team building skills, leadership and safety management skills, and creative problem solving learning modules.
“Collectivity: because ‘everything worthwhile is done with others’ (Moussa Kaba).”
— Mariame kabaSelect Clients
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – LA
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – GA
Ascent LA
Communities for a Better Environment
Children’s Defense Fund – CA
Community Coalition of South LA
Destination Crenshaw Democracy labEngaging Voices | Idaho Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic ViolenceGood Trouble – FreeformHANACenterInterrupting CriminalizationJustice Teams NetworkLos Angeles County Human Relations CommissionLos Angeles Community Action NetworkLos Angeles Tenants Union
National Lawyers Guild – LA
Resonance Network
Services Immigrant Rights & Education Network
Tia Chuchas Cultural Centro + Bookstore
Training and Organizing Resources for
Community Health
UCLA Criminal Justice Program
