Blue Sky Strategies gives ordinary people a stronger voice in shaping public policy. We specialize in equitable urban planning, youth empowerment, government accountability, and anti-racist public policy.
Blue Sky Strategies will be a great fit for clients who want to disrupt predictable stalemates and find new ways of doing work.
What’s your vision for a more just world? Let’s reimagine and build a plan to disrupt the status quo and make your vision a reality!
We work with clients to develop transformative public policy that can shape advocacy initiatives, campaigns, government work, and the civic sector. Blue Sky works with multiple stakeholders to draft public policy that is grounded in solid qualitative research and the lived experiences of everyday people. We also think through how to implement policy, including trouble-shooting bureaucracy, building out strategy, and evaluating existing work.
As cities experience unprecedented economic growth and an influx of new residents, existing communities are feeling the pressure that comes with a rise in land prices, increased demand for housing, and often a mismatch between priorities of local governments and the immediate needs of longer term residents. Blue Sky works with clients to position historically injured neighborhoods with reparation and equity.
We are living through rapid social change that provides countless opportunities to heal communities and imagine and build a better country. I bring a compelling life story and avid reading around my work to design intelligent and relevant curricula that centers black and queer perspectives, and benefits youth, communities of color, and white allies.
CEO Mike Simmons brings all parts of his lived experience to work every day. As a millennial with an intersectional identity, Mike bring layers of expertise, perspective, and personal agency to the work in providing clients with the tools, knowledge, and radical honesty in exploring an issue, re-defining a problem, and framing what needs to be done. Much of the work requires communicating context effectively and telling compelling stories that bring together policy, culture, and personal history.
