Deb Halliday is an author and singer/songwriter living along the Rocky Mountain Front in Helena, Montana.
Her writing includes the recently released FOX AND MOON (Sweetgrass Books) and forthcoming RAVEN AND SUN, both of which are illustrated by her daughter, Maesie Halliday. She is currently ISO an agent for her middle grade sci-fi, THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, and is working/playing her way through a second novel.
Her musical tastes run the gamut, but her bass playing and big voice bring her to good ole Americana Rockabilly Blues. She is also a yoga instructor with Gentle Healing Yoga, and is advance certified in Energy Medicine Yoga® and the Samudra School of Yoga.
In the wintertime, she hosts a Deep Creativity workshop series at Omertà, Helena’s community arts center. Participants are invited into a deeper relationship with the creative flow that runs through us all. Past guest artists include Amy Brakeman, Melissa Kwasny, and Ilgaz Ulusoy. Contact Deb for information on registering for the 2027 series.
For over 25 years I was honored to partner with communities around the country to harness the creative spirit and commitment of nonprofit organizations, government, philanthropy, and the private sector to tackle complex, systemic challenges in education, housing, early childhood, the arts and the environment. I served as a transformational facilitator, coach and trainer on multi-sector collaboration with groups large and small who wanted to explore how, working together, we can have an impact on the communities we live in and the lives we share.
Prior to launching Halliday & Associates, I served as Senior Policy Advisor to State Superintendent Denise Juneau (2009-2016); the Deputy Director for the Public Policy Institute (2004-2009) in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Chief Policy Analyst for the Center for Policy Analysis & Community Change in Missoula, Montana.
I am deeply grateful to the many women and men I was honored to work alongside, and I continue to serve our communities through writing, art and local activism.
As I wrote many years ago, and still hold to be true:
“I believe people are willing to and are even hungry to come together to have rich conversations, and to share different perspectives. We all want – at the core of our being – to make a difference. I believe that in the very make-up of what it is to be human, to have humanity, is our desire to make a difference, to know that the work we put in and the time we invest – the sleepless nights, the tears of victory and the tears of defeat – that all of that somehow matters. That we matter. We want, at the core, to be known, and to be seen.”