EVENT CALENDAR
The Impact Collective routinely offers events that help our community take action to close the racial wealth gap.
Upcoming Events & Programs
The events below are open to our full community of champions, partners, workshop alumni, and those who are just learning about our work.
Logistics
Friday, Sep 11, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
Via Zoom
Via Zoom
About the Event
TBA
Guest Speaker
Elspeth Gilmore has spent 20 years working on economic and racial justice initiatives. She currently helps lead the Trust Web collective, which focuses on transforming systems of money and power through relationship-building and new social practices. She is also involved in reparative ancestry and racial healing work connected to U.S. slavery and serves as associate producer of the documentary Acts of Reparation.
Previously, she was Development Director at Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network and former Executive Director of Resource Generation, where she helped advance efforts to organize wealthy young people around equitable wealth and power distribution. She has practiced liberation-focused active listening for 17 years, is a visual artist with a focus on quilting, graduated from Earlham College, and is based in NYC.
Logistics
Friday, Oct 9, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
Via Zoom
Via Zoom
About the Event
TBA
Guest Speakers
Julia Mejia is Councilor of the City of Boston is currently the Chair of the Committee on Education, the Chair of the Committee on Government Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility as well as the Chair of the Committee on Labor, Workforce, and Economic Development. Driven by a lifelong pursuit of justice and equity, Councilor Mejia has created countless opportunities for others to step into their power and advocate for positive change as a community organizer. Following the 2019 election AND a historic two-month recount, Julia won her seat by a single vote and is now the first Afro-Latina to sit on the Boston City Council.
Marina Seevak is the Founding Executive Director of The Beautiful Stuff Project, an art center whose mission is to increase access to play and the arts through reuse. Marina is also an adjunct faculty in Early Childhood Education at Lesley University and Bunker Hill Community College. Previously, Marina was a public school classroom teacher, reading specialist, and curriculum developer for the Cambridge Massachusetts Public School System.
Logistics
Friday, Nov 6, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
Via Zoom
Via Zoom
About the Event
TBA
Guest Speaker
Natanja Craig Oquendo is a nonprofit leader and philanthropist focused on community-centered change, especially for women, girls, gender-expansive people of color, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Her work is guided by the principle “do nothing about me without me,” emphasizing partnership with the communities being served.
As CEO of the Boston Women’s Fund, she brings more than 20 years of nonprofit and philanthropic experience. She previously helped develop the Boston Foundation’s grassroots strategy and held leadership roles at The Possible Project, Fidelity Investments, The Partnership, Inc., and the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.
Beyond her professional work, Natanja serves on several boards and advisory groups, including Philanthropy Massachusetts, Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Law Center, and Everyday Boston.
Logistics
Friday, Dec 4, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
Via Zoom
Via Zoom
About the Event
TBA
Guest Speaker
Mateo Nube is a Bolivian-born organizer, educator, and musician who co-founded the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project. Raised in La Paz, Bolivia, and later based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has worked across labor, environmental justice, and international solidarity movements. He serves in leadership and advisory roles with organizations including the Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots International, and Justice Funders. Mateo also performs with the Latin rock band Los Nadies. His expertise includes organizing capital for a Just Transition, political education focused on democratizing capital, and cross-class organizing.
Open to white women with class privilege.
Logistics
Boston Area – Launches December 2026
About the Event
This intimate in-person retreat is for mothers and daughters ready to go deeper — into their relationship, their values, and the legacy they want to build together.
Facilitators
TBA
Open to white women with class privilege.
Logistics
- Bay Area – Launches January 2027
- Boston Area – Launches February 2027
About the Event
For white women who care deeply, give generously, and still sense there's more they could do — this hybrid retreat explores the profound connections between who we are, how we relate to money, and the difference we can make. Come curious. Leave with a personalized action plan and a community walking alongside you.
Facilitators
TBA
Open to white men with class privilege.
Logistics
Boston Area – Launches Spring 2027
About the Event
White men sit at a unique intersection of race and wealth — and most justice spaces aren't designed with that in mind. This three-session virtual workshop is. Come ready to go deep, think concretely, and leave with a real plan for what's next.
Facilitators
Ethan Kerr from Breaking the Mold
CLTV Intensive Workshop
(Open to those in the Boston-area who identify as white women with class privilege. Learn more about why we focus on this identity and how we define it on our website or via an upcoming information session.)
Workshop Schedule
9 Sessions
Registration Deadline: TBA
Workshop Begins: TBA
Cohort Schedule
TBA
The Intensive Workshop—CLTV’s flagship program—is a 9-session course that brings together small cohorts of 6-12 white women with class privilege. The workshop culminates with participants drafting and adopting individual, cohort, and family action commitments and strives to foster an alumni community that endures after the workshop’s completion.
Open to all CLTV community members and their partners.
Logistics
Spring 2027
Session dates & locations TBA.
Session dates & locations TBA.
About the Event
Imagine a world where your resources do more than just grow—they ignite change. When couples are aligned, their money can do just that. Impact Collective founder, Julia Johannsen, and Breaking the Mold co-founder, Ethan Kerr, will team up for this special 3-part workshop experience, open to couples of all races, orientations and backgrounds. The workshop will offer a unique opportunity for couples to explore some of the challenges and opportunities of aligning their money with their values. We will explore our relationship dynamics through lenses of race and gender, and consider some of the implications for our partnerships, our money, and our impact on the world.
Facilitators
TBA
Past Events
- Couples Workshop with Ethan Kerr
- Wealth, Wellbeing, and Identity with Katya Smyth
- Place-Based Investing to Close the Wealth Divide with Deborah Frieze
- Finding Ourselves: The Lineage of White Women & Racial Justice with Liz Aeschlimann
- Surviving a Bear Attack: Strategies for Difficult Conversations About Race with Ken Rogers
Our mission is to close the racial wealth gap by organizing, educating, and activating people with wealth to leverage their influence and affluence within a diverse and connected community.
A grassroots non-profit organization located on stolen Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Wampanoag land, now known as Boston, Massachusetts.
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