Dr. Durryle Brooks is a Baltimorean, a scholar, practitioner, and framework builder whose work sits at the intersection of love, healing, solidarity, and collective liberation.

With a PhD in Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and over two decades of experience across higher education, K-12, nonprofits, and movement spaces, Dr. Brooks has dedicated his career to building the theoretical and practical tools that help individuals and organizations do justice work more honestly, more sustainably, and more lovingly.

He is the creator of the Critical Theory of Love (CToL), the 7 Types of Solidarity framework, the Liberatory Development Framework, Self-Reverence Map, and the Relational Capacity Grid — frameworks synthesized from peer-reviewed scholarship, practitioner knowledge, and community wisdom, including non-Western solidarity traditions. His work has been taken up by practitioners and organizations across the United States, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Brooks is the author of (Re)conceptualizing Love and has been published in the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis and Nonprofit Quarterly. He has presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, the White Privilege Conference, Facing Race, and NASPA, among others.

He is the Founder and CEO of Love and Justice Consulting, LLC, a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses scholar, a Kellogg Community Leadership Network Fellow, and a Comcast RISE Award recipient.

Whether you’re navigating organizational conflict, building cross-racial coalitions, or developing your team’s capacity for justice work — this is where we start. Bring me in for consulting, training, or speaking.