Our Expert Network
At JV Consultancy, we believe the strongest solutions are built through collaboration. Rather than relying on a fixed team, we work through a carefully curated network of trusted consultants and subject matter experts who bring complementary strengths, diverse perspectives, and deep experience to each engagement.
Every consultant featured here is someone I have had the privilege of working alongside. I know their work firsthand, trust the quality and integrity they bring, and confidently partner with them on projects where their expertise will best serve our clients and communities. These are relationships built over years of collaboration, shared values, and a mutual commitment to excellence.
This boutique consulting model allows us to thoughtfully assemble the right team for each project—drawing on specialized expertise in facilitation, strategic planning, community systems development, family engagement, leadership development, organizational learning, evaluation, communications, policy, and more. By matching the needs of each engagement with the strengths of our network, we provide flexible, high-quality support while maintaining the personalized attention and collaborative approach that define JV Consultancy.
Together, we are united by a shared commitment to relationship-centered practice, equity, meaningful partnership, and creating practical solutions that strengthen communities and improve outcomes for children and families.
Jaclyn Vasquez, M.S.
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FounderI’m Jaclyn J. Vasquez, the founder of J V Consultancy. My work lives at the intersection of early childhood, community advocacy, and social justice.
I am a former special education and bilingual educator turned early childhood leader with over 25 years of experience spanning classrooms, district offices, policy tables, hospital advisory boards, and grassroots coalitions.
But my deepest expertise doesn’t come from titles or institutions—it comes from lived experience. I’m a proud mother of four children, three born prematurely, including one who is medically fragile and another living with epilepsy. Advocating for them through schools, hospitals, and public systems reshaped my understanding of equity and power.
I am a first-born Indigenous Mexican and third-generation Italian woman. My mixed-race identity is shaped by lineage, labor, and love—raised at the intersections of cultures, contradictions, and deep community ties. Being mixed race means I carry both the burden and the brilliance of complexity. It gives me the lens to navigate systems critically, to hold multiple truths, and to lead work that refuses simplification.
My identity as a bilingual mother, educator, and community strategist grounds how I show up: relationally, unapologetically, and with deep care for the people behind the systems. I move through the world with ancestral memory and present-day clarity—questioning how things have always been done and co-creating how they could be. I don’t just work on systems—I build trust inside them, challenge them from the outside, and hold space for those most impacted to lead.
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Through J V Consultancy, I partner with communities, organizations, and cross-sector collaborations to:
Co-design family-centered strategies
Facilitate professional learning rooted in adult learning and racial equity
Translate research into action
Support data storytelling and community accountability
Build sustainable infrastructure for community-led initiatives
I’m not a traditional consultant. I don’t just “train” or “advise”—I walk alongside teams as they navigate complexity, hold tension, and move toward more just and effective practices. Whether I’m helping reimagine early childhood systems or shaping a policy brief for Medicaid reform, I bring the same core values: humility, integrity, collaboration, and social justice.
My story is shaped by my parents—my mother, Maria, whose care, strength, and persistence grounded our family, and my father, Angel, an immigrant and community advocate, whose sacrifices and leadership taught me to stand tall in any room. Together, they instilled in me the value of hard work, community, and using my voice for something bigger than myself. Their legacy lives in everything I do—from the families I fight for to the systems I work to change.
Rebecca Halperin, Ph.D.
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I’m Rebecca Waterstone Halperin, a consultant, educator, and Ph.D. candidate with over 20 years of experience in early childhood development, policy, and systems change. My work has spanned direct service, administration, coaching, training, research, and consulting—partnering with organizations, state agencies, and local communities to co-create strategies that support young children and their families. I bring experience in designing and facilitating collaborative processes and translating data into action.
My passion for this field began as an infant/toddler teacher, where I quickly saw both the power of early childhood work and the systemic challenges it faces. I bring my full self to this work: I’m a White, Jewish, cisgender woman, a mother, and someone who has lived with a chronic illness since adolescence. These experiences shape my perspective and deepen my commitment to centering marginalized voices and challenging dominant narratives in the field.I’m Rebecca Waterstone Halperin, a consultant, educator, and Ph.D. candidate with over 20 years of experience in early childhood development, policy, and systems change. My work has spanned direct service, administration, coaching, training, research, and consulting—partnering with organizations, state agencies, and local communities to co-create strategies that support young children and their families. I bring experience in designing and facilitating collaborative processes and translating data into action.
My passion for this field began as an infant/toddler teacher, where I quickly saw both the power of early childhood work and the systemic challenges it faces. I bring my full self to this work: I’m a White, Jewish, cisgender woman, a mother, and someone who has lived with a chronic illness since adolescence. These experiences shape my perspective and deepen my commitment to centering marginalized voices and challenging dominant narratives in the field.
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Item desI strive to support communities and organizations in building more equitable systems—through data, shared learning, and authentic relationships. I have a passion for early childhood advocacy, systems, policy and community. I experienced the challenges, frustrations, and wonders that encompass the world of families with young children in our society, and I continue to look for ways to contribute to this field on a broad scale.
fakelia guyton, M.A.
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fakelia guyton moves like a song through the soul of early childhood—her rhythm shaped by more than two decades of teaching, leading, and loving in community. From head start classrooms with paint-stained hands to boardrooms shaping policy, her compass has always pointed toward racial equity and collective well-being.
She has guided systems as Director of the DuPage Early Childhood Collaboration, rooted equity work in places like Lurie Children’s Hospital and San Diego State University, and helped lead the RISE Center in Austin toward liberation in early childhood education. Today, as founder of The Equity Partners Network, she leads with wisdom for strategy, evaluation, and community-based research—always centering justice, joy, and compassion.
Her work is both personal and empirical: shaped by lived experience and sharpened by research. This grounding allows her to approach community psychology and social justice with clarity, humility, and rigor—holding stories and data side by side as tools for transformation.
A Ph.D. candidate in Community Psychology at National Louis University, fakelia is also a Barbara Bowman Leadership Fellow, an American Evaluation Association GEDI Scholar, and a 2025 Chicago United for Equity Fellow, advancing racial equity impact assessments as tools for systemic change.
Beyond her titles, she is a traveler, a thrifter, and most proudly, a mother—her daughter’s brilliance her greatest achievement. Guided by bell hooks’ reminder that “when we drop fear, we can draw nearer,” Fakelia draws near to people and possibility with fierce love, clear purpose, and unwavering grace.
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fakelia guyton moves like a song through the soul of early childhood, carrying with her a rhythm shaped by 22 years of learning, leading, and loving in community.
She began as a teacher—hands in fingerpaint, heart in storytime—planting seeds in children and soil alike. Over time, she rose into the role of administrator, then community psychologist, always returning to her roots: collective wellness, joy, and justice. Her compass has always pointed toward racial equity, guiding her through corridors of policy, classrooms, boardrooms, and front porches where families gather.
In DuPage County, she once served as the director of the DuPage Early Childhood Collaboration, weaving systems together like quilt patches—stitch by stitch—on behalf of children, educators, and families. Today, she walks a new path as founder of Equity Partners Network, where she lends her wisdom to strategic planning, community-based research, program evaluation, and program development in early childhood & community well-being.
Her work has echoed in the halls of Lurie Children’s Hospital, danced across research tables at San Diego State University, and rooted deeply in the soil of Austin, Texas—where she helped lead the RISE Center’s charge toward liberation in early childhood education. Her gift is helping others see clearly—through the lens of equity, compassion, and possibility.
In 2022, fakelia became a Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Scholar with the American Evaluation Association, where she deepened her use of Culturally Responsive and Equitable (CRE) evaluation. This led her to join a team of community evaluators in Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood, measuring transformation from the ground up. In 2025, she was named a Chicago United for Equity (CUE) Fellow, where her focus is advancing racial equity impact assessments as tools for systemic change and community power.
Her academic journey mirrors her service. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in Community Psychology at National Louis University—an institution that also holds her master’s in Public Policy and bachelor’s in Business Management. In 2017, she became a Barbara Bowman Leadership Fellow at Erikson Institute, where she authored a policy memo on early developmental screening and later penned a widely shared blog, “Early Detection of Developmental Delays Could Help Close the Achievement Gap.”
Renee Tetrick
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I’m Renee Tetrick, a consultant working with J V Consultancy. My purpose work is supporting others in living and leading from wholeness, cultivating collective consciousness, and co-creating transformative change. I work to support individual and collective care, awareness, connection, and action with a goal of personal and collective expansion, change, and liberation. My work supports the journey inward, relational work with others, and our collaborative work to change systems. My vision is to co-create a more conscious, liberated, and loving world.
A proud native of Chicago and the Midwest United States, I am now living in the French Alps with my partner and twins. I have long been interested in change and transformation, and I was called in my youth to be of service, to develop personally, and to grow as a change agent. I studied change theories from multiple perspectives and hold my Master of Public Policy and Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Psychology and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Indiana University.
I have a broad range of experience across social impact areas, including early childhood development, K-12 education, child welfare, youth development, family and community engagement, health and well-being, workforce development, and immigration, with a particular interest in advancing equity and working on intersecting, cross-sector, and cross-cutting social issues. With 18 years of experience with nonprofits as a facilitator, trainer, program developer, researcher, strategist, coach, process designer, and capacity builder, I have come to believe that true, lasting change is both an inner job AND a collective practice towards consciousness + liberation.
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I co-create with teams, organizations, communities, and cross-sector collaborations through:
· Consultation and thought partnership in a variety of topics including awareness based systems change, community systems development, human centered design, equity impact, reflective practice, and organizational culture.
· Training and workshop design and facilitation that is human centered and highly collaborative, reflective, and action oriented.
· Co-creation with clients, teams, collaborations, and communities includes theories of change, user centered approaches, process design, concept development, shared learning, and innovation.
· Conscious Containers for personal, team, leadership, and whole self development.
· Co-design tools for learning & action, including templates, handbooks, manuals, toolkits, training materials, guides, surveys, and more.
As a practitioner first, I am actively engaged on my own inner learning journey as a heart-led change maker. As a capacity builder, I am continuously adding to my toolkit and supporting others to do the same. As a facilitator, I believe that individuals are masters and experts of their own lives and are capable of stepping into their own potential, power, and purpose. As a co-creator, I believe in working directly with others (particularly those most impacted) to imagine, design, and implement. Overall, my approach is to support groups – teams, organizations, coalitions, collaborations, and networks – in reflective practice, co-creation, and collaborative action. I believe that we are all powerful creators of our own lives and our beloved communities.
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