Resource Generation is led by a cross-class board and staff.

Staff

Michael Gast, Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy Program Coordinator mike(at)resourcegeneration.org
Michael Gast has been involved with Resource Generation since 2002 as a constituent, RG Fellow, Trainer and member of the National Organizing Advisory Committee. With the support and training of RG, he has become an experienced donor organizer and social justice fundraiser. Michael was the lead constituent organizer for the recent RG delegation to the US Social Forum and served for the last two years as the co-coordinator of the Movement Generation Support Committee, a donor circle in support of left movement building in the Bay Area. Born and raised in San Francisco, Mike also has extensive experience as an educator and activist. Michael helped start Y-Step (Youth Step Towards Addressing Racism), a racial justice education program for white youth in the Bay Area, and was part of the organizing team for Art in Action, an arts activism program for young leaders in Northern California. Prior to working for Resource Generation, Mike was the After School and Service Learning Coordinator at Children's Day School in San Francisco. Currently living in Seattle, Mike has become an active member in the local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and is learning to appreciate indie rock. He is committed to and continually inspired by working with other young people with wealth to build powerful movements for social and economic justice. He holds a BA in Urban Studies from Vassar College.

Elspeth Gilmore, Program Coordinator
elspeth(at)resourcegeneration.org
Elspeth Gilmore, Program Coordinator, got involved with Resource Generation over two years ago and has since been committed to using her class privilege for social change. She is dedicated to working with people with class privilege as a strategic part of the larger movement for social justice and self-determination. Elspeth is a founding member of the Gulf South Allied Funders, a group of progressive donors who have partnered with the Twenty-First Century Foundation to support the equitable rebuilding in the Gulf South. She is also a member of the Movement Generation Support Committee, a donor circle supporting Movement Generation, a movement building project in the Bay Area focused on young progressive leaders. Prior to joining Resource Generation, Elspeth volunteered with Just Cause Oakland, a mass-based economic justice organization, and worked as a potter and a landscaper. She holds a BA from Earlham College.

Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Executive Director
taij(at)resourcegeneration.org
Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Executive Director, is an award-winning artist and activist. Taij believes that social change can be realized through the redistribution of wealth and power, as well as the self-determination of the people most impacted by injustice. She sees her art and activism as vehicles of personal and political change, which relies on building community locally, nationally and globally. Taij is a co-founder of Blackout Arts Collective, a national arts organization that use the tools of culture and education to raise awareness and catalyze action around the critical issues that impact communities of color. She is also a founding board member of the Harlem Link Charter School, and serves on the boards of the Funding Exchange and the Rajkumari Center for Indo-Caribbean Arts and Culture. She is also on the Advisory Committee of the Ms. Foundation for Women. Prior to joining Resource Generation, Taij was the Director of Development and Communications at East Harlem Tutorial Program. She has served as a consultant and volunteer at several non-profit organizations, helping them to build organizational capacity and strengthen programming. Taij holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MA from New York University.

National Board of Advisors

Jason Franklin (co-chair), 21st Century School Fund and NYU Wagner School of Public Service
Chad U. Jones (co-chair), Association of Black Foundation Executives Fellow
Nigel Daryl Greaves, Straight, No Chaser Films
Kaberi Banerjee Murthy, Picower Foundation
Andrew Pearson, Net Impact at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Camilo A. Romero, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos de Colombia
Dara Silverman, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Maggie Williams, Women in Prison Project at the Correctional Association of New York
Rebecca Winsor, Inspired Philanthropy Group

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