Solidarity Ecologies envisions a Southern-based mycelial network of values-aligned, Black, Indigenous, people of color, immigrant, working class community organizations, and donor allies all practicing resource sharing and solidarity economics to support a thriving Southern ecosystem across land, space, time, and political praxis.
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We are transforming the way resources are shared and stewarded across land, space, and community.
Solidarity Ecologies is a proud member of New Economy Coalition, a coalition of 200+ organizations building the solidarity economy across the U.S.
Our Team
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Britney is an unapologetically Black, queer, Southern Resource Mobilization Consultant. Britney’s 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 them with an equitable, sustainable resource mobilization ecosystem that supports those most deeply impacted by white-supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy.
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Leila Zainab is a queer third gender Muslim, immigrant, & community organizer living on the unceded lands of the Eno, Saponi and Tuscarora. Their 14+ years of movement building reside at the intersections of reproductive justice, racial justice, gender equity, arts activism, philanthropy & grantmaking, leadership development, transformative & healing justice. Most recently, Leila has provided coaching and consultation for the following organizations: The Art Angels, Medicine Bowl Giving Circle, PRBB Foundation, Survivor Theatre Project, ARC-Southeast, Persimmon Collective Fund, and Jane Doe, Inc.
To date, Leila has facilitated individual donors, private foundations, and community mutual aid funds in the movement of over $10M to grassroots-led work nationwide and globally. They serve as the Board Co-Chair of Mirror Memoirs, an abolitionist network of BIPOC queer, trans and intersex survivors of child sexual abuse. Leila holds an MA in Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons University & an MS in Law from Western New England University School of Law. Outside of work, Leila enjoys (re)learning their ancestral languages, participating in community theatre, and being in nature.