Elspeth Gilmore has been organizing for racial and economic justice for the past 20 years, largely focused on her fellow progressive folks with wealth. She is currently building the work of the Trust Web, a collective focused on transforming money, power and ourselves through deep relationships, moving money and practicing new ways of being. Elspeth has been on a parallel journey of reparative ancestry, and she was the associate producer of the documentary Acts of Reparation. A long time member, Elspeth served as the Executive Director of Resource Generation, ushering in the current mission to organize transformative leaders for the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. Elspeth is a queer visual artist, a graduate of Earlham College and lives in New York City where she grew up.

Katrina Schaffer (she/they) was born and raised in a wealthy family in Kansas City, Missouri. Her political home for many years was Resource Generation, where she was initially introduced to and engaged around social justice movements and social justice philanthropy. She spent 5 years on the board of Resource Generation, including several years as Board Chair. They now work as a sign language interpreter, help manage the care of their disabled sibling, are actively involved as a member of Solidaire and continue to organize themselves and other wealthy people towards collective liberation. Katrina lives in Oakland, California with her partner and two children. 

Linda Burnham has been a Black feminist leader, activist, writer, researcher, and strategist for over 50 years. She is a co-editor of, and a contributor to, Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections. Burnham served as National Research Director and Senior Advisor at the National Domestic Workers Alliance for nearly a decade. Burnham co-founded, with Miriam Ching Louie, the Women of Color Resource Center and served as the organization’s Executive Director for 18 years. Burnham has published numerous articles on African-American women, African-American politics, and feminist theory in a wide range of periodicals and anthologies. 

Lisa Owens is the Executive Director of the Hyams Foundation, which funds organizations and networks working toward racial and economic justice in Greater Boston and Massachusetts. Lisa brings over 25 years of experience building local grassroots organizations and supporting national movements.  She previously served as the Executive Director of City Life/Vida Urbana, a prominent housing justice group that is nationally recognized for organizing communities against displacement and building collective power for systemic change. She has taught courses on community organizing and nonprofit management in local universities and has served on the boards of many Boston-based and national organizations committed to fighting for social, racial, and economic justice. Lisa holds an MS in Human Services, Organizational Management and Leadership from Springfield College.

Monica Raye Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the southern-based national Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Monica is a proud, Black Queer Feminist and graduate of Johnson C Smith University, a historically black university (HBCU) based in Charlotte, NC. For over 20 years Monica has been organizing extensively for LGBTQ liberation, civil and human rights, and sexual and reproductive justice from a Southern to global scale. Monica is deeply committed to using the power of cultural organizing to educate and ignite the masses and dismantle systems of oppression. Monica has received numerous awards and acknowledgements for her innovative leadership including being named a New Civil Rights Leader by Essence Magazine, a visionary leader by the Ms. Foundation, one of Fast Company's awardees on their Queer 50 list, and as one of TIME 100’s most influential people of 2023. 

Rajasvini Bhansali is the Executive Director of Solidaire Network and Solidaire Action, a community of donor organizers mobilizing critical resources to the frontlines of social justice.  She is a passionate advocate for participatory grassroots-led power building and a lifelong student of social movements. In a wide-ranging career devoted to racial, economic and climate justice, she has previously led an international public foundation that funds grassroots organizing in Asia, Africa and Latin America; grown a national youth development social enterprise; managed a public telecommunications infrastructure fund addressing the digital divide in the Southern United States; and worked as a community organizer, researcher, planner, policy analyst and strategy consultant. 

Sharon is an important leader in US based efforts to organize the rich towards equity and justice. She is the board chair of Donors of Color Action, board member of Women Donors Network, and emeritus president of the Progress Alliance of Washington [the C4 state donor table for WA]. A native of New Jersey, Sharon first came to Seattle to work at Microsoft where she spent 12 years working in the development teams.  Sharon speaks Mandarin Chinese, has a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Princeton University, and lives with her husband and 3 children in Seattle’s Capital Hill neighborhood.