SCDG is an organizational development & capacity building consulting agency. We work with ongoing collaborative partners and advisors that broaden the range of our expertise. SCDG was founded in 2015 and uses the combined expertise of peer consultants to assist clients in building their organizational capacity to increase and sustain cultural assets. 

Our team is led by skilled facilitators, artists, and cultural workers that specialize in strategic planning, fundraising, policy development, program design and community & cultural organizing. 

Our work is guided and managed by partners Harold Steward and Sara Mokuria.

We believe that successful cultural development involves organizations who anticipate and prepare for the inevitability of change, plan realistically, comprehensively and across all organizational functions. 

SCDG's partners, have more than twenty years of combined experience in fundraising, cultural equity training, policy development and executive and board leadership with organizations such as the ArtsBoston, Black Theatre Commons, Boston Center for The Arts, New England Foundation for The Arts, Theater Communications Group, National Performance Network, The Theater Offensive, The South Dallas Cultural Center, Highlander Center for Education and Research, The Movement for Black Lives, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, The Texas Department of Health and Human Services, and Dallas Independent School District. 

Meet Our Team

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  • Founder

    Harold Steward (they/he) , a modern philosopher, strategist, and educator, joined the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) as executive director in July 2023. Prior to NEFA, they served as the executive director & cultural strategist at The Theatre Offensive (TTO), a Boston-based nonprofit organization that presents liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color that transcends artistic boundaries, celebrates cultural abundance, and dismantles oppression. They previously served as manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center, which provides instruction and enrichment in the arts with an emphasis on the African contribution to world culture.

    In 2009, Harold founded Fahari Arts Institute in Dallas after recognizing a gap in the landscape for local LGBTQ artists of color in Dallas. Fahari Arts Institute celebrated, displayed, and produced the work of queer artists from the African Diaspora.Harold is chair of the board of directors of Theater Communications Group, the board clerk for MassCreative, a steering committee member of the Black Theater Commons, and a founding member of NextGen National Arts Network and founding partner of Steward Cultural Development Group.Steward served as a cultural equity facilitator with Equity Quotient and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Theater Studies at Emerson College where his current research interests include The Queer Trap Aesthetic in American Theatre and Identity Reclamation, the process in which oppressed individuals reclaim agency over their identity through cultural production.

  • Founding Partner

    Sara Mokuria has over 15 years of experience in advocacy, program design, and facilitation to advance equity. Prior to directing Building Beyond Policing, she served as a Senior Associate on the Community Safety and Justice team at PolicyLink, working closely with organizations across the country to advance their racial equity efforts. She previously served as the Associate Director at the Institute for Urban Policy Research at the University of Texas at Dallas, working with municipalities and nonprofits across North Texas on program design and efforts to address poverty and inequality.

    Sara has been featured in numerous publications, including Next City, D Magazine, and the Dallas Morning News. She was the editor of the CARE handbook on participatory research for Family Medicine Doctors at UT Southwestern. Sara has taught high school and college at the University of Texas at Dallas and Paul Quinn College. She currently serves as a board member for Southern Sector Rising and Mothers Against Police Brutality. Sara received a BA in Liberal Arts from Eugene Lang College at the New School and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies and MAT in Teaching HS History from Simmons College.