Terri (she/her) is a black, cisgendered, working/middle class mother of two, living in Philadelphia (Lenni-Lenape land). Terri joined GWI after many years of working at Omega Institute, first as an independent contractor in their Development department, and later as the Omega Women’s Leadership Center’s Community Engagement Specialist. Through her work at GWI, Terri focuses on community relationship building, and contributing to greater shared understanding of the Just Transition framework throughout the Hudson (Mahicantuck) Valley.

Susan (she/her) has dedicated her working life to diverse mission-driven organizations. Her work has involved participatory facilitation; strategic planning; program design, implementation and evaluation; resource development; financial management; and governance. In her current work as a parent and worker trustee of the Good Work Institute, she strives to express callings and longings to facilitate learning, support collaboration, organize information, engage conflict, connect across difference, create lasting conditions for greater equity, and contribute toward justice in the Mahicantuck (Hudson) Valley of New York. Used by Lilla Watson, Aboriginal Elder, and many other activists, these words offer her a guiding light: “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”