About Us

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Background
Social Innovators and Design Group is a certified small woman-owned business (SWAM) and full service consultancy. We provide solutions to complex social problems. Our clients consist of public and government sector managers; nonprofit executives, and faith leaders who are responsible for delivering problem-solving solutions in vulnerable communities. We specialize in designing infrastructures that are sustainable, practical, and able to address the needs of our clients, both now and into the future. Our team works to design client-focused training, and technical assistance that meet the specific needs of the end-users which most often are communities in distress such as gender, racial, class and socially isolated minorities. We bring together the right people, at the right time, for the right reasons.

The Founder
D. K. Seneca Bock has over 25 years consulting experience, especially working with organizations that serve vulnerable, low-resource communities of color and ethnic minorities. She specializes in designing sustainable solutions in the areas of social, civic and community development that fill significant capacity gaps in vulnerable communities. She has expertise working within the rural, suburban and urban settings. She is a sought-after panelist, social commentator, organizer and activist. She sits on numerous boards and committees, such as the American Association of University Women; and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Consumer Sciences where she assist in developing educational curricula for use in school systems state-wide. She is a visionary leader who is well-regarded for her innovative, culturally relevant programming, such as Youth-for-Democracy; Women-as-Leaders Initiative and a myriad of capacity expanding projects throughout the nation.
This experience, along with those of her colleagues and partners, have enabled her to assist organizations such as the League of Women Voters, U. S., the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (African American Healthy Marriage Initiative); Department of Justice Corrections Program Office; Providential Credit Care Management, Incorporated; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and countless other small and large organizations.