Education · Civic
7,000+
Rochester City School District
Designed and facilitated school-based participatory budgeting across 10 campuses — building student agency and systems awareness for thousands of students.
Strategy · Systems · Facilitation
Turn what you value into systems that actually work.
Educe is a woman-owned consultancy that helps communities, institutions, and businesses align vision, values, and action. We bring ethical clarity, systems thinking, and grounded facilitation to the challenges that matter most — from public health and education to strategy and responsible AI.
Trusted by the City & County of Denver, the City of San Antonio, Rochester City School District, and rural health & education partners.
Selected partners
City & County of Denver
City of San Antonio
Rochester City Schools
Healthy Archuleta
Pagosa Peak Open School
Kimanya-Ngeyo (Uganda)
What we do
We help leaders turn insight into infrastructure.
Five interlocking practices, one goal: design systems that reflect your highest values and hold up in the real world.
Strategy & Systems Facilitation
Align your team and partners on a strategy you can execute.
We guide institutions and coalitions through transition — clarifying shared purpose and translating it into durable structure, governance, and practice.
Product Management & Development
Design and ship tools — digital or analog — that solve hard problems.
From AI-powered writing systems to community health intake flows, we run user research, prototyping, and delivery with technical and ethical rigor.
Public Health Collaboration
Strengthen community-rooted care, especially where resources are thin.
We support health systems, nonprofits, and agencies with training design, care-coordination strategy, evaluation, and cross-sector partnerships.
Education Innovation
Build learning systems and school models that empower.
Microschool founding, curriculum, leadership pipelines, and instructional infrastructure — designed so learning is participatory, dignified, and coherent.
AI Ethics & Epistemic Design
Adopt AI without losing the integrity of thinking and learning.
Strategic advising, ethical audits, and epistemic frameworks for AI-human systems — so technology serves judgment instead of eroding it.
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See how each practice works, what you get, and how engagements are scoped.
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Good strategy isn't delivered. It's developed, together.
We don't sell pre-packaged answers. We co-build — and design capacity that lasts beyond our engagement.
Listen & map
We learn your system from the inside — surfacing what your people already know and where coherence breaks down.
Align on values
We facilitate the hard conversations until purpose, strategy, and constraints actually agree with one another.
Design the system
We translate alignment into structures, tools, curricula, and workflows that make insight repeatable.
Build capacity
We embed the learning so your team grows more adaptive, principled, and resilient over time.
Featured engagement
Responsible AI in Secondary Classrooms
A four-month pilot that equips teachers to use AI responsibly — strengthening writing, reasoning, and source analysis instead of shortcutting them. Built for districts that want innovation without sacrificing the core of learning.
$6k–$12ktypical district contribution · ~4 months
- Phase 0 — Learning Integrity Audit: survey teachers and review assignments & tools.
- Phase 1 — Teacher Design Studio: redesign real assignments; draft a Responsible AI Use Guide.
- Phase 2 — Classroom Pilots: teachers implement with coaching; document case studies.
- Phase 3 — Evaluation & Symposium: measure impact; present to the community.
- Phase 4 — Scale-Up & Funding Strategy: leave with frameworks and a funding-ready roadmap.
Selected work
Outcomes, not just advice.
A sample of engagements across civic, education, and health systems.
Rural health · Food equity
Multi-year
Healthy Archuleta
Governance design, evaluation, and community-based research for a rural food-and-health coalition — including a Food Security Navigator role embedded in primary care.
Municipal · Evaluation
1st in CO
City & County of Denver
Designed and led the evaluation of Denver's first municipal participatory budgeting process — training community researchers and publishing the city report.
Who we are
A woman-owned consultancy built on care and rigor.
Educe was founded in 2020 by two people convinced that change fails less from a lack of intelligence than a lack of coherence — between values and operations, insight and action.
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Natasha B. Bruss, MPH
Co-founder · Director
A strategist and operational leader with a background in finance, innovation, and public health. After executive roles — including at Goldman Sachs and ASU's technology-transfer arm — she turned to systems transformation rooted in community health and education. Natasha brings precision, perspective, and deep moral clarity to every engagement.
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Drew Brown, PhD
Co-founder
A systems thinker, educator, and epistemic designer whose work spans AI ethics, curriculum design, civic engagement, and collective intelligence. He brings uncommon coherence to complex systems and helps teams move from insight to action through grounded facilitation and rigorous design. His doctoral research pioneered participatory budgeting in U.S. schools — a throughline in Educe’s civic-engagement work.
This moment demands more
Let's build something you can stand behind.
Whether you're starting something new or repairing what exists, we'd love to hear what you're working on. Messages go straight to our leadership team.