About Us
The Baseline Institute is an equity and collaboration based consulting firm devoted to furthering community power building through the support and development of accountability systems. The Baseline Institute envisions a world in which communities thrive because of their unique identities, not in spite of them. We seek a world in which each group and individual is able to live a self-determined liberated and just life.
We are located on the unceded and stolen ancestral and present lands of the Miami and Shawnee Indigenous tribes of southwest Ohio.
Kumar Jensen is the Principal Founder of The Baseline Institute. Kumar has 15 years of racial equity driven climate and collaboration work. Prior to founding The Baseline Institute Kumar served as the Chief Sustainability and Resilience Officer for the City of Evanston, IL and as a co-chef, co-founder and co-owner of the restaurant MAZU. Since then, Kumar focuses their work on supporting equitable collaborations between frontline organizations and the entities they are in partnership with. Kumar works with a network of collaborators to meet the needs of their clients.
