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Alexandria Piccinini is grounding the concept of wealth redistribution in a multidimensional understanding of today’s most pressing crises. Aware of the issues around the distribution of wealth in the US and globally, she has a personal mission to redistribute assets in a socially responsible and impactful way.
As an educator on the front lines of so many failing systems, she discovered her rebellious spirit and a hunger for social change. Healing one’s self so that one may heal others and trusting intuition are at the core of her work. Through Radical Futures, she’s excited to push the boundaries of how a foundation typically behaves.
She holds a MA in Educational Therapy, a California Special Education Teaching Credential from Holy Names University, and a Bachelors in Business Administration with English & Peace and Justice minors from the University of San Diego. Outside of work, Alexandria enjoys forest bathing, dance, walking her four dogs, and snuggling her two cats.
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Aubrey's interest in radical world building bridges her multidisciplinary background. She’s held space as an educator and community leader for nearly 20 years, while endeavoring in writing, dance, and design at the professional level. In community wellness and educational spaces, her main priority has been bringing the margins to the center of the conversation to make sure everyone is being seen and cared for. She’s a champion of Indigenous values and is interested in esoteric ways of knowing. Her creative work—with a focus on storytelling and renewal—is afrofuturist and emphasizes the practices and rituals required to truly embody and radiate joy.
Career highlights include initiatives for vital communities within educational institutions and top wellness brands, performing at YBCA, and the SF MOMA and hosting events with SOHO House Berlin and Tech Open Air. When Rosario Dawson read the children's book Aubrey co-authored to young people in LA, it was also a dream come true. Personal accomplishments include mothering her precious daughter, epic backyard gardens, and more than a decade of dream journaling.
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Kate brings a wealth of experience from her work with nonprofits, specializing in supporting underserved communities, including children and single mothers. A proud mom of three daughters, Kate leverages both her personal journey and professional expertise to create programs that empower and connect communities, fostering a web of support where everyone feels part of a shared village. Driven by a calling to make a difference and a deep belief in our shared responsibility for one another, Kate is dedicated to helping others thrive.
She believes in honoring connections to earth and to our own feelings, that sometimes there are things unheard and unseen that can guide us, and is interested in complexity and the unknown. Outside of work, Kate can be found practicing yoga, coaching her daughter’s soccer team, or curled up on the couch with her cats, Hamilton and George.
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Georgia is a whole-systems thinker and social impact specialist. Her work centers relationship-first action, and is inspired by principles of circular economies, regenerative capitalism, nature-based solutions, and endogenous development as primary vectors to contribute to the well being of communities and the regeneration of this planet we call home.
Believing that traditional philanthropy and the development industry is a legacy of colonialism that functions as an operating arm of the status quo, Georgia has done her best to participate in the NGO world from a lens of highlighting local knowledge and participants’ own voices. For over 15 years, Georgia has worked with place-based organizations addressing their own communities’ needs. The majority of her work has been with small-holder farmers, women’s cooperatives, refugees and indigenous communities in East Africa and Latin America, but has also included reproductive justice work in her homeland of southern Appalachia, USA.
Georgia is motivated by a deep obligation to the land that holds us and the inexplicable presence of spirit in all things. She believes we can course correct this collective ship and that there is great responsibility for those with access to be on the frontlines of that work. Arundhati Roy said it perfectly: “Another world is not only possible; she is on her way.” Outside of work, you can find her in the ocean surfing, chasing joy, or with her dogs and partner.
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Julia is a service designer and futurist who is passionate about using her design practice to build products, services, and systems that meet the needs of underserved communities.
The projects that mean the most to her are ones where she can tackle wicked problems that result in social impact. This passion is deeply personal. She is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States as refugees from the Khmer Rouge genocide, and she is a big sister to two brothers with autism. Julia believes in the power of human-centered design as a means to improve equity—not just the bottom line.
Julia’s excited to be a part of flipping the idea of foundations on its head, returning agency and resources to communities to craft their own unique futures, and collaborating to imagine & build new ways of working in community.
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Claire earned her Bachelor's degree from Bucknell University in Women’s and Gender Studies and her Master’s of Fine Arts with a concentration in Design from California College of the Arts. She’s interested in meaningful and slow design practices that break the mold of rapid production and center the importance of creating to create. She sees her work as carving out space to dream in design as well as to communicate radical ideas.
Claire sees the role of design as central in our everyday lives and therefore a potent tool for social change. She’s inspired to collaborate with Aubrey in the communication of environmental and social justice through visceral visual experiences.
Beyond her work, she loves reading, dancing, coffees with friends, and enjoying parks in the City.
