with Harmonie

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with joy

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with rigor

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with community

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with responsibility

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with intention

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with Harmonie • with joy • with rigor • with community • with responsibility • with intention • with curiosity •

withharmonie studio is a creative, community-centered consultancy dedicated to designing with joyful responsibility.

Our Founder

Harmonie Coleman
Founder & Principal Designer

Harmonie is a cultural worker cultivating collective learning, joy, and justice. She specializes in coalition building, participatory research, healing-centered practice, program strategy, and workshop design and facilitation.

Harmonie thrives in community, finding purpose and excitement in building relationships, fostering culture, and bridging the gap between divergent perspectives. She believes joy and justice are interdependent, and regularly employs music, art, and humor to center individual and collective well-being while dismantling oppressive systems. Her past experience as a teacher both deepen her expertise and ground her work; she continues to be an ardent advocate for Ethnic Studies education and equitable, holistic mental health treatment for young people. Since leaving the classroom, Harmonie has focused on designing and implementing programs that not only engage youth but also build long-term relationships with their families and communities. At IDEO.org, she led community engagement and equitable design research practices, and served as the firm's inaugural community designer.

Harmonie holds a B.A. in Psychology and Race & Difference Studies from Emory University and a M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She's also a proud board member of nonprofit organizations Justice for Black Girls and Association to Benefit Children. In her free time, you can find her curating the perfect playlist, frolicking in nature, or reading the latest N.K. Jemisin novel.

Selected Works

Share Our Community Toolkit

A collaboration between 92NY Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact and Living Room Conversations, this toolkit helps readers tap into their civic power and build a sense of connection, pride, and possibility with their neighbors.

School Culture Champions Project

An education reform program, in partnership with Garland Independent School District, to co-design restorative interventions and eliminate racial disparities in exclusionary school discipline.

Rock Families First Initiative

A co-design project with Rock County, WI Human Services Dept. and local community leaders to activate racial justice and healing in the department’s child welfare system.

Our Services

  • We gather the people you need to talk to and make sure you’re centering their hopes and perspectives, from beginning to end.

    We build coalitions that strengthen your product and galvanize movements.

  • We write facilitation guides, lesson plans, and workshop agendas that unlock learning.

    We put it on paper so all you have to do is make it real.

  • We create joyful, meaningful experiences that connect participants with each other and with new ideas.

    We think through the flow and backstage coordination of gatherings so you can be fully present.

  • We facilitate groups through learning and conflict to support holistic change.

    We honor emergence and presence, and guide participants through moments of reflection, creation, and connection.

  • We conduct rigorous, equitable research that puts users at the center.

    Our research strengthens final deliverables and furthers your impact.