Haile Eshe Cole has centered her personal, professional, and academic career on issues of racial equity, culture, and social justice. For almost 10 years, Haile worked in the community with a grassroots collective of mothers in Austin, TX where she lobbied for legislative change, collected surveys and data in collaboration with the Institute of Urban Policy and Analysis (IUPRA) at the University of Texas, and planned fundraisers, trainings, and local community events. She has served as a trained community educator and has developed and facilitated several community education groups and supported organizations to develop key partnerships. Haile specializes in topics pertaining to community education, cultural humility, and equity and served as a consultant for various organizations including nonprofits, public health departments, and local, state, and federal government entities and has contributed skills such as grant writing, research and report writing, program development, implementation, and management, training and curriculum development, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building assistance, and cultural adaptation training.

Ishe Consulting Services came to fruition in 2016 as means to meld the creative passion for writing, the desire to do impactful work, and the academic skillsets of its founder Haile Eshe Cole. After spending years receiving academic training, working for both state and local government, and tirelessly doing community work, Ishe Consulting Services arose as a means to utilize these diverse experiences on a broader scale.