"We’re not trying to make the world more fair. We’re trying to make it more conscious."
Fairness is often based on competing stories of what’s owed. We’re more interested in what becomes possible when people loosen their grip on certainty and begin to see their beliefs not as truths to defend but as lenses they can question.
You might see this in a police officer who, after watching one of our performances, doesn’t just hear a community member’s pain, but feels it in his body for the first time. Or in a student who realizes that listening isn’t about waiting for their turn to speak, but about being changed by what they didn’t expect to hear. Or in a civic leader who suddenly recognizes how the system they manage is doing exactly what it was organized to do, and begins asking different questions.
We draw from humanist principles, systems thinking, and the science of emergence, not to teach theory, but to invite practice. The practice of noticing your own mind at work. The practice of staying curious when it would be easier to shut down. The practice of meeting difference without needing to dominate or dissolve it.
We don’t organize people around shared identity. We gather them around shared courage.
Our work isn’t about categories, it’s about contact. The kind that humbles you, stretches you, and ultimately brings you into deeper relationship with yourself and the world around you.
If that kind of transformation calls to you, you’re already part of the work.
OUR TEAM
KEVIN JONES
Kevin is the Red Door Project’s Chief Creative Director and Co-Founder. He is an award-winning actor and director who has performed on the American stage for more than 40 years. Kevin is also a communication, organizational and diversity consultant with over 25 years’ experience working with private and non-profit organizations.
Kevin’s approach utilizes complex systems thinking and organizational change theory. The system does what it is organized to do, not what we want it to do — not what we expect it to do — what it is organized to do.
LESLI MONES
Lesli Mones is the Red Door Project’s Board Chair and Co-Founder. She is an executive coach and advisor who is known for her straightforward yet compassionate style. With a background in psychology, and more than thirty years of experience working with individuals and teams, Lesli has developed an uncanny ability for both getting to the heart of issues, and helping to illuminate the path forward.
Lesli’s coaching is grounded in the beliefs that change is inevitable, growth is intentional and intelligent risks are essential to fulfill one’s potential.
PAIGE RODRIGUEZ
Paige is the Red Door Project’s Production Manager. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Technical Production & Design. Her stage management career spans over ten years in various Southern California theaters including Saddleback Civic Light Opera’s McKinnley Theatre, The Historic Lankershim Arts Center, Pasadena Playhouse’s Carrie Hamilton Theatre, and the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. Prior to moving to Portland, she was the Director of Production & Design at California School of the Arts – San Gabriel Valley.