Welcome to Hollerin’ Up! I’m Jardana, Lead Consultant.

A portrait of Jardana in a white vest, white jeans, and gold hoop earings leaning against painted black brick and surrounded by lush green.

Jardana Peacock (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary writer, parent and activist, living in the original homelands of the Shawnee, Cherokee and Osage (Louisville, KY). Their writing has been published in Swamp Pink, The Queer Love Project, Nashville Review, YES! Magazine, and more. They have been a resource mobilizer for liberatory movements, working at The Highlander Research and Education Center, PeoplesHub, and now with their best friend as a Lead Consultant at Hollerin’ Up.

For over two decades they have helped return over 50 million dollars to communities building a more just world.

Jardana is happiest traveling between worlds: in the Appalachian Mountains and swimming in lakes, creeks and oceans. Discover what they are reading and how they are adventuring over on Instagram: @jardana, their literary and activist writing is here: www.jardanapeacock.com

Jardana’s specialties: 

  • Organizational strategy

  • Donor cultivation and stewardship (small, mid and major)

  • Grassroots fundraising design and implementation

  • Institutional fundraising 

  • Resource mobilization systems design

  • Narrative strategy and communications

  • Year-end campaign development

  • Executive leadership coaching 

  • Organizational facilitation 

  • Human-centered hiring

As a Lead Consultant with Hollerin’ Up, Jardana works to build the capacity of radical projects working towards collective liberation. They prioritize projects in the Global South.

  • Are you an organization without a development strategy or director who needs longer term support?

  • Are you a rad organizer who wants coaching to demystify the fundraising world?

  • Are you launching a capital campaign?

“There are only a few decades left before I go home; I don’t want to waste them being folded.”

Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir