Dr. Asia Lyons is the founder and lead consultant for Lyons Educational Consulting LLC, a consulting and coaching firm that supports schools and other non-profits through equity auditing of their programming, co-creation of culturally responsive programming and curriculum, and job-embedded coaching. She also co-facilitates a Black Educator Wellness Cohort in the Denver Metro area.  



Your WHY



My WHY is about the reciprocity of a shared equity focus and design thinking for youth voice from beginning to end. 

Your Background

I worked as a K-12 educator for over 10 years and also served as the Equity in Schools Specialist in a Denver-based non-profit, a role in which I worked with schools and non-profit partners across the Denver Metro Area to provide communities with resources to support the closing of the access gap for BIPOC youth.

Your Education Journey

I learned my work ethic and focus on social justice growing up in Detroit which is changing now. My boyfriend (husband now) and I moved in 2006 to Denver. My first job was at Cherry Creek Sunrise Elementary year-round school. The principal gave me options to teach anything for sixth-grade social studies so I taught “Social Justice.” Some of the topics included asking what is humanity and the roots of social justice. Kids voted on the topics. In 2016, the focus changed in the community and the class. I decided to leave teaching in 2018 and started my doctorate.

Research on Equity

I obtained my doctorate in Leadership for Educational Equity, where my research focused on the ways that racism-related stress crosses over from Black educators to their families.



Racial battle fatigue

Racial violence impacts leadership for ed equity

Educator battle fatigue



Opportunity Gap



Worked for a non-profit to support new immigrants with education. 

Wellness Cohort

After school work with museums and zoos



Lyons Educational Consulting 

https://www.lyonseducationalconsulting.com/



I am the founder and lead consultant for Lyons Educational Consulting LLC (LEC), a consulting and coaching firm that supports schools and other non-profits through equity auditing of their programming, co-creation of culturally responsive programming and curriculum, and job-embedded coaching.

We support the design of programs that provide space for people to feel

cared for, their lived experiences seen and their voices amplified.

Vision Statement

Lyons Educational Consulting imagines work and school cultures where everyone brings their best selves forward, creating a place where the individual and the organization thrive.

Mission Statement

In partnership with communities, organizations, and schools, Lyons Educational Consulting co-creates truly inclusive programming in which the dignity of all can be honored.

LEC Equity Design Principles

The equity-centered participatory design principles have come from being a part of work in and with communities. They are the anchors that allow us to come back to the center. These principles also allow us to live on the edges of what some would dee...