About Dallas

Dallas Rising is a professional certified coach, a writer, and facilitator with experience and qualifications in non-profit grassroots campaign coordination and management and is currently the Program Director for the Animal Rights Coalition. She has a long history of involvement in social action, with extensive experience promoting a vegan lifestyle and animal liberation. Her own focus on living life with the goal of making a difference led her naturally to the work of coaching others who were striving to do the same. She was certified upon completeion of the Certified Coach Program through Coach Training Alliance. Dallas spent six years as a Volunteer Manager for Compassionate Action for Animals and she has coached Americorps Promisefellows through the AmeriCoach Program. She has led a vegan lifestyle for more than 12 years and lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two mischievous dogs and a demanding cat, all rescued.

Dallas is passionate about helping other animal liberationists identify clearly what they find most meaningful. She guides individuals in redesigning their lives as a natural expression of their deepest values. She specializes in coaching people whose whose greatest goal is to impact change, and she works with them to identify and follow the most direct route to their vision.

Support for her clients may take the form of networking and campaign strategy, tips for enacting change in day-to-day social interactions, the introduction to a network of support in a specific field, and tools for addressing, and being well-received by, the public. She emphasizes sustainability and self care as key ingredients for success. Her focus is on supporting and challenging activists in their life's work, and helping them to remove obstacles that stand in the way of them achieving their goals. She creates balance in her life by knitting, gardening, and volunteering with Small Dog Rescue of MN