Michelle is a fifth-generation Oregonian, growing up in a working-poor family in rural communities. Much of her 20+ year nonprofit career has been shaped by those experiences and a passion for people, the land, and building equity. Michelle was the first college graduate in her family and holds a BA in International Studies. Most recently,…
Megan (she/they) is based in the Pacific Northwest and lives with her two Chihuahuas, Ozzy and PJ. With a diverse career in HR, Megan has worked across industries, including the music business, owning dispensaries, and serving as a safety manager in aerospace. She has also been a federal and state lobbyist, advocating for cannabis banking…
Mary was born and raised in Nigeria. Having traveled from Nigeria to the United States to exult in her independence, she earned an MBA degree at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Prior to joining Resource Generation, Mary worked at a nonprofit, and a few start-ups in the finance and accounting departments. Mary considers herself…
Leah (she/her) lives on Massachusett land known as Boston. She comes from a mixed-class background and is proud to come from a long line of anti-capitalist activists, artists, and educators. Leah is deeply involved in local and national organizing movements for Indigenous solidarity funding. She also organizes with Kavod, a community of progressive young Jews…
keithlee (they/them) grew up in a working-class single-parent family in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. They are a founding organizer of the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia) De-escalation Collective, which trained communities in de-escalation strategies to prevent and interrupt state violence. keithlee is committed to organizing at the intersections of disability justice, police and prison…
Katie (she/her) joined RG staff as the Western Regional Organizer in October 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, CA where now serves as the Chapter Organizing and Leadership Development Director. Originally from the Bay Area and the Boston area, she found Resource Generation after a long journey of activism and organizing work with Asian…
Julia (she/her) joined the RG team in 2022 as the Membership Director. Julia was born and raised in Vermont (unceded Abenaki territory). While she regularly returns to the green mountains to visit friends and family, she has come to call Buffalo, NY (unceded Haudenosaunee territory) home over the past seven years. Before joining the RG…
Jeannie grew up in a mixed-class household in the suburbs of Buffalo, NY. She was politicized in college and has never looked back. She discovered her love for social justice communications during her prolific zine-producing era in her senior year of college. Her professional communications work began in a college admissions office, to a reproductive…
Falon (she/her) was born and raised in Houston, Texas, in a working-class, multi-generational household and received her B.A. in History and Political Science from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She is a natural organizer of resources and systems and finds solace in using data as infrastructure for building a more equitable world. Falon feels called…
Raised in a working-class single-parent household, Emery (she/her) grew up in so-called Greensboro, North Carolina, a community rich in civil rights and movement history. She was called to action after learning about the increasingly urgent climate crisis and its connections to corporate lobbying, racial capitalism, and other systems of oppression that threatened all human rights….
We hold the liberation of Black and Indigenous people as central to the liberation of all people. We know that attempted genocide and chattel slavery created the initial foundation for massive wealth disparity in the U.S. and that the continued exploitation and criminalization of those communities upholds the racial wealth divide. We believe that well-resourced Black and Native Left organizing is a critical part of how we all get more free.
We believe social justice movements need to be led by communities most directly impacted by injustice. As young people with access to wealth, we choose to undermine the pattern of funders dictating the work and instead choose to follow the leadership of transformative social justice movements and communities, led by people who are: poor, working-class, Black, Indigenous, of color, women, disabled, queer and trans.
We work towards eradicating classism and towards wholeness. We believe that all classes and communities are interconnected and interdependent and that classism has been used to wedge and divide us. We know that much is lost communally in the name of wealth accumulation and that people with wealth have a lot to gain from returning wealth to the collective and transforming our economy. We know that the current economic system is untenable, and we work to build a solidarity economy.
We believe that people ages 18–35, with wealth and class privilege, are at a pivotal stage in life to make a lifelong commitment to social movements. Youth movements and organizing are, and have been bold and visionary. We are building on the legacy of those who came before us, and we are working for a better world for those who will come after. Young people with access to wealth and class privilege need to be organized as protagonists—actively engaging in and seeking out ways that leverage and redistribute our access to power and resources within our control, and redirect resources and power within the networks and institutions we are connected to. We are committed to resisting ageist norms of people acquiring power and holding on to it and constantly doing leadership development to bring about new leadership.
We believe personal and structural change are deeply connected, and every person has the ability to heal and grow. We are committed to working towards transforming ourselves, our organizations, our communities, and society as a whole through our work. We bring our full selves, our experiences, our stake, and our strategic thinking to build cross-class relationships in working for a just and livable world.
We believe in collective and individual growth, groundedness and interdependence. We know that tensions will arise, and we will approach these with curiosity on behalf of our personal and collective wants. We will work to see tensions as generative rather than destructive and finite. We welcome principled disagreement and will strive to keep conflict generative in service of our broader goals and mission.
We believe in the power of collaboration across class, race, and movements. We know that our vision depends on our relationships with communities, organizations and people across our movement ecosystem, with whom we share similarities and differences. Through our organizing work we also seek ways to invite our families, communities, and other people with access to wealth to this work.
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