veronica garcia

Lead Organizer,
Governance Team Member

Veronica Garcia (she/her/hers) was born in Los Angeles and raised on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. She has over 20 years of experience working with social justice nonprofit organizations and community groups on issues including health care disparities, anti-violence initiatives, LGBTQ equity, anti-racism, reproductive justice, food security, economic justice, and migrant rights.

Veronica is deeply committed to using the power of fundraising as a movement building strategy. She learned and internalized this powerful value as a graduate of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training’s (GIFT) Internship Program more than 10 years ago. In the years since, Veronica has supported hundreds of community initiatives and social justice groups in building their grassroots fundraising capacity. Veronica also founded the Paso del Norte OUT Fund, a grant making initiative of El Paso’s LGBTQA community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, and our allies) and the Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee, a group committed to ending unjust and inhumane migrant detention across the southwest U.S. border region.

Veronica more recently launched the Wealth Reclamation Academy of Practitioners (WRAP), in partnership with a national network of social justice grassroots fundraisers, to recontextualize how social justice organizers think about and practice movement resourcing in the U.S. In addition to extensive real-world experience in the nonprofit sector, Veronica has a B.A. in Sociology and a Master of Nonprofit Management graduate degree.

jose dominguez

Co-Lead Organizer

Jose Dominguez (he/him/his) is an executive coach and resource mobilizer who values appreciative inquiry, emotional intelligence, personal choice, and commitment to action. Jose has a background as a nonprofit executive and Board member, and has lead DEI initiatives as both a leader and a facilitator. He believes in using questions, reflection, support and challenge to help create a new understanding of any situation. This approach helps create a framework for exploring opportunities and eventually deciding on the right course of action. Jose lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

britney nesbit

Co-Lead Organizer

Britney’s (she/her/hers) journey in movement work has encompassed facilitating Resource Mobilizing Trainings with Black Youth Project 100 and the Wealth Reclamation Academy of Practitioners (WRAP), working as a Director of Development for Southerners on New Ground (SONG), creating and leading participatory grant-making processes, leading micro-granting initiatives with The Campaign for Southern Equality, mobilizing resources for 501(c)4 campaign work and consulting with various other social justice movement organizations across the South. Britney is most excited about removing the barriers that traditional philanthropy has created to hoard its resources and replace it with equitable, sustainable resource mobilization.

Frances prochilo

Co-Lead Organizer:
Admin & Operations

Frances (she/her) brings over 15 years of dedicated service to the nonprofit sector, marked by a deep passion for social justice and community empowerment. Originally from New York, her journey spans across Bolivia, Mexico, and Abu Dhabi, but it was in San Francisco at the Global Fund for Women where her commitment to supporting grassroots movements truly began. In this role, she helped amplify the voices of women changemakers worldwide addressing critical needs in their communities.

Frances later transitioned to the Watershed Company, immersing herself in the realm of online fundraising and advocacy. There, she developed strategic campaigns for organizations like Planned Parenthood and Ocean Conservancy, fostering deeper connections with their supporters and expanding resources for their causes.

For the past nine years, Frances has been a part of the amazing team at El/La Para TransLatinas, serving the trans, intersex, and gender-diverse Latinx immigrant community in the San Francisco Bay Area with dedication and joy. As WRAP Co-Director, Frances finds herself continuously inspired and excited about the wealth reclamation movement and how we resource mobilizers are creatively and powerfully re-envisioning and re-connecting relationships, communities, and the world through the lens of social justice and equity.

Susana M. CÁcerEs

Founding Governance Team Member

Susana M. Cáceres (she/her/hers) is a queer embryonic immigrant, made in El Salvador of Pipil and Lenca lineage; born and raised in traditional, unceded Tongva, and Kizh Land colonized as Los Angeles. She has been a guest on traditional, unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land, colonized as Oakland, now for 17 years. Susana earned a M.A. in Latin American Studies with a concentration in Women's Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed her undergraduate studies at Cal State Long Beach majoring in Human Development and minoring in Spanish.

She’s worked in nonprofits for 30 years at the grassroots, national and international level. She’s dedicated her career to working with organizations that are organizing, movement building, developing leadership and advocating and fighting for the rights and welfare of communities of color, immigrant and LGBT communities. She has also worked in philanthropy with Central American Women’s Fund and the Global Fund for Women. Most recently, she worked for El/La Para TransLatinas, an organization for transgender women from Latin American in the Mission of San Francisco, where she was the Executive Director for 4 years. Presently she is a resource mobilization consultant and executive coach and does transnational solidarity work with the women of the U’wa tribe in Colombia via Mujer U’wa, an organization she runs with her friends. In her work, Susana emphasizes self-wisdom, self-love, healing, grounding and abundance in supporting her client’s purpose.

Taij Kumarie-Moteelall

Founding Governance Team Member

Taij (she/her/hers) is a visionary, healer, and serial entrepreneur. Born in Guyana and raised in the US, she is committed to building a solidarity economy powered by harmonious relationships among people and with the planet. Through her work at Media Sutra, Taij merges transformative storytelling and resource mobilization to foster well-being and community wealth-building. Her trauma-informed coaching/facilitation supports creative entrepreneurs and philanthropists to be Fearless, Abundant, and Bold (FAB). A trailblazer in the field of arts activism, Taij amplifies the stories of communities of color. Her writings, performances, research, theater and multi-arts productions draw inspiration from her ancestral lineage, lived experience, and radical imagination.

Taij is currently serving as the first Arts + Activism Resident at Jahajee Sisters, an organization she co-founded to address gender based violence in her Indo-Caribbean Community. Her leadership and creativity has visibilized Indo-Caribbean people and activated them to build a gender justice movement. Through her 2-year residency, Taij will be writing and directing the second iteration of her multidisciplinary theater production, Jahajees Rising. She will also be completing her novel, Conflicting Karma.

Taij cut her teeth in movement work through arts and cultural organizing as a co-founder of Blackout Arts Collective, then served in leadership positions from community-based organizations to national philanthropic institutions. Taij’s experience as Executive Director of Resource Generation inspired her to found Standing in Our Power (SiOP), a network of cis and transgender women and gender expansive people of color. She also co-stewards emergent entities that align with her solidarity economy vision, including Sweet Livity (Social Justice Co-op dedicated to wellness), WILDSEED (land-based healing sanctuary), and Securing The Roots, a resource mobilization fellowship program. Taij is the mother of three beautiful beings, Shakti, Satya, and Shiv Nanda.

Dr. Geri Lynn Peak

Founding Governance Team Member

Geri Lynn Peak is Chief Insight Facilitator at Two Gems Consulting Services. She and her associates work to strengthen community-based, regional, national and international programs through evaluation, training and technical support. She seeks to shine light into the dark corners of program practice to promote true understanding by: 1) asking critical questions with curiosity and compassion; 2) "listening" to what is learned through diverse approaches to gathering and mining data with openness and detachment; and 3) presenting that wisdom back to clients in accessible forms, trusting in them and helping them invoke their own wisdom and excellence to continually improve their efforts.

Two Gems practices evaluation based on a process Geri developed called Strategic Insight Facilitation, which involves gathering wisdom using customized participatory data collection activities to learn what stakeholders know about program operations, practices, outcomes, challenges and benefits and using those insights to drive evaluation questions and design.

Geri also owns a much neglected wearable arts business and performs dance, drumming and song on occasion as the community requires it.

Allison Erdneka Budschalow

Governance Team Member

Allison (she/her/hers) is a people person with decades of experience in bringing folks together to build toward common goals. She has vast experience in doing this in the form of resource generation (or fundraising) based on her many years as lead development staff for community-based organizations. Allison loves to help groups increase their individual and collective power through resourcing their work with an emphasis on grassroots fundraising. Most recently, she has co-created Securing the Roots, a six month fellowship to build people-power through a resource generation, mobilization and reclamation framework.

In her work with Dragonfly, she enjoys facilitating groups of all sizes through an exploration of who they are and what they are invested in, opening up ways for them to stretch and find growth. With knowledge of organizational development, an eye toward strategy, and expertise in virtual engagement, she has been navigating the pandemic skillfully, bringing folks together even as we are physically apart.

Prior to her resource generation and mobilization work, she served on staff at the American Friends Service Committee, supporting social movements around the U.S. and globally. She also had the privilege of being a lead organizer of the first U.S. Social Forum, held in Atlanta in 2007. Allison has served on the boards of directors for a number of Philadelphia-based organizations.

As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Allison received her BA in Sociology/Anthropology from Earlham College and her MA in Sustainable Businesses and Communities from Goddard College. Born and raised in Philly and determined to raise her kids there, too, she is a member of the Kalmyk Mongol diaspora and is always excited to investigate the intersections of food, gentrification, race, class, and story-telling in her spare time.

Nzinga West

Governance Team Member