Our Team

Why We Became TC

Transformation — change that is profound, radical, and sustainable; change that fundamentally alters the very nature of something.

We’re former non-profit co-founders, operators, and organizers who came together to create Transformation Collective to help people lead the transformative change they want to see in the world, in their organizations, and within themselves.

We have first-hand experience with how social impact organizations can find themselves replicating the very same power structures they are trying to dismantle. We specialize in supporting clients to lead with their values in key moments of transformation whether it is growing to respond to a new opportunity or effectively responding to a disruptive challenge.

We believe that our practices become our practice; together we will learn, experiment, and implement new practices as we work towards a future where social impact work is generative, healing, and transformative for everyone involved.

  • Annika Morgan

    FOUNDER | SHE/HER

    Annika has spent the last ten years building, leading, and supporting teams with big visions for equity, justice, and transformation. She brings experience as a nonprofit co-founder, COO, and board member. She specializes in working with growing organizations on organizational identity, strategy, operations, and transformation projects.

    A detail person at heart, she meets clients at the intersection of vision and process, turning ambiguity into thoughtfully designed operating systems. She has a degree in Entrepreneurship from Northeastern University.

  • Mikelina Belaineh

    COLLABORATOR & EXPERT | THEY/THEM

    Mikelina identifies as a queer, black, nonbinary abolitionist, and has dedicated themselves to organizing around issues of gender, sexuality, policing, and punishment. Mikelina graduated from Harvard Law in 2016, and has since spent their career interrogating, understanding, and addressing issues of mass incarceration. Mikelina has worked on issues of street and gang violence, womxyn’s incarceration, and cannabis justice.

    They bring experience as a non-profit leader, board member, researcher, scholar, and professor.

  • Michél Legendre

    COLLABORATOR & EXPERT | HE/HIM

    Michél is a consultant with experience in fundraising, campaigns, and organizational development. He believes in the power of network weaving, building sustainable movements, and supporting Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority across our movement. Michél has experience in his service on nonprofit and philanthropic boards, organizational leadership as a campaign director in corporate accountability and criminal justice spaces.

    He has also supported participatory budgeting processes and served on committees for arts, culture and organizing projects across the United States. He loves bringing humanity front and center with clients and building processes that are cyclical and reiterative. 

Our Values

  • — We acknowledge that white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy strip us all of our humanity.

    — We reckon with entrenched power structures --both internally and externally– to intentionally develop more embodied cultures, practices, and governance.

    — We believe in directly impacted leadership with privileged support.

    — We take time to get to know each other as individuals – we care about each other’s well-being, acknowledge important life moments, and optimize time outside of work.

    — We support each other and allow everyone to learn and improve because we believe individual transformation is the key to collective transformation.

  • — We can ask for what we need and talk about how we feel without judgment.

    — We welcome and encourage energetic conversations across diverse perspectives and challenge each other respectfully.

    — We are not afraid to have courageous, sometimes even painful, conversations that may lead to positive transformation in our work.

    — We learn from our mistakes and publicly share our learning so that others can learn from our internal transformation efforts.

    — We encourage each other to show up authentically, even when we don’t have control over how we may be received.

  • — We believe that there is no one right way to do things. We individualize our approach to every leader, organization, and initiative.

    — We ask questions all-day, every day, to better understand ourselves, the experiences of others, and the systems we all navigate.

    — We make space in our schedules for learning, reflection, and creation.

    — We take calculated risks and view failures as learning opportunities.

    — We engage in popular education practices that empower groups, organizations, and communities by tapping into their collective wisdom and fostering collaborative learning.

    — We create and innovate our “how” by deeply rooting in our “why.”

    — We believe in the power of imagination-- nurturing our individual and collective creativity allows us to envision outcomes, perspectives, and solutions that are not readily apparent.

  • — We invest in imagination by creating time, space, and energy for envisioning the future we’re working towards.

    — We cultivate hope through action.

    — We believe that the seeds of our solutions are found at the roots of our challenges.

  • — We bring our values to everything that we do to embody the change we seek to create in the world.

    — We make practice our practice by showing up in the small moments the way we intend to in the big ones.

    — We do what we say we are going to do and follow up on responsibilities that we commit to.

    — We make time for rest and rejuvenation because taking care of ourselves is critical to doing our work with integrity.

    — We respect professional boundaries, and when it’s not clear about what’s okay and not okay, we ask.

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