Zuri Tau, LMSW, Ph.D.

Dr. Zuri Tau is the founder and CEO of Social Insights Research. As a sociologist, licensed mental health professional, and yoga teacher, she leads by centering collective care, healthy boundaries, and liberatory theory and praxis. She is also the founder of Liberatory Research, an initiative to co-create a space to amplify BIPOC perspectives and advance power and liberation in research and evaluation. Zuri has contributed to numerous books and publications on facilitation, ethics and leadership such as Holding Change by adrienne maree brown and is the former managing editor of the academic journal, City and Community. She has contributed to curriculum for movement organizer-leaders, and has taught workshops on decolonizing research, trauma-informed care, and practicing evaluation from a racial equity lens.

She finds her joy through spending time with her family and ATL community, rock climbing and bouldering, walking in the woods, and reading autobiographies and magical realism.