Who We Are

Strategy with Rox is committed to helping people and organizations who are working to create more inclusive communities. In these tumultous times, we are committed to helping organizations who are under attack for creating communities where every person belongs, and every person has access to resources.

Roxane White

Roxane White is a results driven strategic advisor and leader with a passion for community engagement and public policy. She has 25 years of executive leadership expertise as the CEO of local, statewide, and national nonprofits, as a Cabinet Secretary, and as Chief of Staff to a mayor and a governor.

From her early career building Urban Peak and Urban Peak Colorado Springs, and merging The Peak with The Spot, to recent work as the Innovator in Residence at The Aspen Institute, she has delivered impactful results to communities across Colorado and the nation. In her almost thirty years as a CEO and a leader, she has encountered difficult situations ranging from managing public relations crises and natural disasters, to strategic redirection and negotiating the first maternal child health pay for success project in the United States. Rox has served in the public sector as a gubernatorial cabinet secretary and Chief of Staff for eleven years and most recently has been supporting state leaders throughout the country to address income inequality.

Rox knows that difficult and interesting challenges require thoughtful leadership and planned processes. She leads with a commitment to hearing diverse points of view in order to support strategic decisions and deliver results. She is as comfortable working with CEOs, mayors, and board members as she is with community activists and people in vulnerable situations. Throughout her career, Rox has led strategic thinking and planning processes for large, multi-state entities, employee groups of over 1,000 and small entities with volunteer staff. This support has resulted in actionable plans and greatly enhanced decision making processes.

She began her career thirty years ago working with teens who were living on the streets and has maintained her commitment to listening to and uplifting people who are experiencing difficulties. She values the thinking of community activists, professional experts and elected and appointed officials. Complicated challenges involving diverse perspectives are her expertise.

Rox has a long history of professional experience serving on boards of directors including serving as an an Independent board member and member of the HR and Compensation Committee at Clarivate, and has served on the boards of the Rose Community Foundation, the Downtown Denver Partnership Civic Ventures Board, and was one of twenty-four members of the national Mobility from Poverty Commission established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Rox has been appointed by Colorado Governor Jared Polis to both the State of Colorado Personnel Board and Help Colorado Now to speed Colorado’s Coronavirus recovery.

Rox is a seasoned coach and has worked with executives to improve performance and move into new roles as well as with entry level workers striving to learn management and leadership skills. She believes that when a person’s personal and professional visions align, greater synergy and productivity are discovered. She currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Strategy with Rox where she has had the honor of continuing to focus her work on 2Gen approaches, solving homelessness, addressing income inequality, and facilitating difficult conversations with both small and large teams. She has had opportunities to work with nonprofits, start-ups, local governments, elected officials, and for-profit companies.

DONALYN WHITE

At the nonprofit Global Livingston Institute as the Director of Development and Public Affairs, Donalyn studied international development and sustainability. While there, they worked with students from the United States and East Africa, led immersion trips focusing on biology, entrepreneurship in technology, and self-defense.

Later, Donalyn transitioned to serving as the Regional Manager at Inspire Colorado, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization working to amplify the youth voice. While there, they became engaged in local elections and ballot initiatives while working to register youth to vote and get them to the polls.

In July of 2018 Donalyn transitioned to the consulting firm Strategy with Rox where they currently serve as the Editorial Director, providing extensive research and writing support to clients and drafting strategic plans and policy recommendations for organizations and elected officials.

Donalyn has a Master’s degree in Political Science, with specific focuses on public policy and community organizing, and a Master’s Degree in English Literature with an emphasis on feminist and queer studies. They are currently a Cultural Studies PhD student at Claremont Graduate University. Donalyn is a college instructor and has taught courses at the University of Colorado Denver and the Community College of Denver, and is now teaching at the University of La Verne.

Donalyn is also a writer, poet, and artist. They publish scholarly writing as well as poetry, and they have curated and participated in both group and individual shows in California.

Lulu

Adopted in June of 2020 by Rox from the Colorado Cattledog Rescue, Lulu is has a deep commitment to staff safety and volunteers herself as the designated security dog. Her best friend is Monte, and she never likes to be far away from him. She is a mountain dog through and through, and you will rarely find her away from her favorite forests. She loved to watch the deer and birds out of the window.

When not out hiking, she loves to listen intentionally to meetings, only occasionally offering advice. Her executive coach and mentor is Monte.

LUNA

Luna was adopted from the Dumb Friends League in August of 2019, and joined the Strategy with Rox team in September. She is the door greeter for all clients and staff who come to the office, and happily reminds staff members when it is time for another walk. She has a characteristic and typical way of laying, found among many Golden Retrievers, fondly named “the sploot.”

Her favorite thing to do is to go to the off-leash dog park at Cherry Creek State Park and play in the water all day. Luna enjoys playing with sticks she finds in the yard, but her favorite toy will always be her chameleon plush that she carries everywhere with her.

Luna can be found lying on her back, patiently waiting for belly rubs.

Stella

Stella was adopted from the Golden Retriever Freedom Rescue in November of 2021. In her foster home, her foster parents called her a "sausage princess," and it only takes one time of seeing her stubby little frame to get why! Although a DNA test has not been done to confirm her ancestry, Stella appears to be a mix of Golden Retriever, Corgi, and Basset Hound.

Stella adores everyone she meets, but she worships her older sister, Luna, and is never far from her side. Stella loves to play off leash at dog parks and designated trails in the mountains, where she gladly saunters along to any and all passerby who want to pet her. At any time she can be found snoozing in places she isn’t supposed to be (like the bed).