About The Book
The Future Is Collective is a guide for people in nonprofits, movements, businesses, and foundations — who want to align their workplace culture with their values.
Grounded in my experience co-founding and co-directing Pangea Legal Services for ten years, and shaped by interviews with values-aligned leaders across sectors, the book offers practical tools for shared leadership, transparent decision-making, equity-based pay, and care-centered culture in organizations.
“This book helps us imagine and build collective, liberatory, care-rooted workplaces—with tools and examples that bring our values to life.”
Praise for the Book: Readers have called The Future Is Collective “groundbreaking and practical,” “indispensable,” and “a beacon for those seeking cultures of care, equity, and collective responsibility.” Read more of what others are saying here.
What’s Inside: A collection of stories, history, sample policies, and everyday tools gathered from people who have been practicing shared leadership for a long time. It centers BIPOC and queer voices, names the systems that leave people out, and offers real-life ways to open space for people to be heard and to share in shaping the groups, workplaces, and movements we’re part of.
Who It’s For: This book is for people shaping workplaces and communities with shared power—organizers, facilitators, managers, funders, students, and teams across nonprofits, businesses, and movements. It speaks especially to those in justice-centered and values-driven spaces who are reimagining how we work together, offering stories and tools to nurture cultures of care, equity, and collective responsibility.
Why Now: A new generation of leaders is calling for values-aligned transformation in our organizations, especially as the political landscape moves in more authoritarian and extractive directions. Communities are creating real change—and they’re asking for concrete tools, real-life examples, and new ways of leading that reflect the world we’re trying to build.
Buy the Book: The Future Is Collective is available for preorder now and will be released on October 21, 2025! You can buy it at Bookshop, Amazon, North Atlantic Books - and any other major book retailer.
Contributors + Gratitude: So many! Read the acknowledgements here.
