I came to the work of convening, facilitating, coaching and organizing wealthy people through my experience in the Threshold Foundation Community, which I joined in 1990. I co-founded and co-led Play BIG (2004-2018), Lead with Land (2015-2019), Just Economy Institute (2017-2019), the Trust Web (2017-), Jubilee Gift (2019-), and Jubilee Justice’s Our Ancestral Journey (2019-), some of which are still in play.
My ancestors were colonizers who arrived here between the 1600s and 1800s. Many accumulated massive wealth and land, some of which I inherited. My amazing parents changed the trajectory of that lineage through their social justice activism grounded in the Episcopal church. My work emphasizes the need to shift consciousness to change patterns of wealth and land accumulation and activate redistribution and repair.
I am a contributing editor to a new anthology about the work of organizing and transforming people with wealth toward justice called Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People, due out September 2025. I have also been actively engaged in the Indigenous-led resistance against Line 3 where I live in Minnesota—including being arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, sentenced and finally exonerated on appeal!
The first half of my career was devoted to television and music production; and in the nineties, I was co-founder of the national non-profit Concerts for the Environment, which produced multi-act stadium and arena concert events that brought public attention to environmental issues. I sing, write songs, am a Soul Collage facilitator and have three adult children.
A dedicated field builder in the realm of financial activism, Marian is delighted to share her experience with and perspectives on the following…
Areas of Expertise:
- Who do you need to be to “host a new future”
- Emerging models of doing money differently
- Bringing an activist and spiritual lens to working with money and finance
- Wealth psychology
- Finding pathways for reckoning and repair—including land return—to liberate us from destructive and oppressive power dynamics of money across race and class
