Hilary Pollan

Hilary Bailey Pollan (she/hers) is an equity-oriented independent consultant with a range of experience facilitating group process and managing cross-sector collaborative projects with nonprofits and community organizations, local governments, membership organizations, community organizers, artists, and philanthropic partners. She is the founder and lead consultant of Hilary Pollan Facilitation.

Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Hilary worked as the Community Partners Analyst for the Chatham County Manager’s Office where she served as the primary liaison between the Manager’s Office and the nonprofit community and other community stakeholders. Hilary spent her early career working youth and adult basic education/ESOL learners in Holyoke, MA and in the Brazilian Amazon.

Hilary has a deep commitment to fully and equitably resourcing social justice and community-based organizations in the Triangle region. In 2025, she founded New Legacy Lab, a community for community of individuals with access to wealth who bring a new orientation to giving that centers justice and the re-distribution of wealth and power. She is an active donor organizer for QT*BIPOC-led work in the South and an alumnae of the Triangle NC Chapter of Resource Generation.

Hilary holds a dual-master’s degree in City & Regional Planning and Public Health-Health Behavior from UNC-Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s in Sociology from Mount Holyoke College. Originally from Raleigh, NC, she currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband Adams Bailey and young son, her Maine Coon, and 10 happy chickens.