Elspeth Gilmore has worked in the areas of economic and racial justice for the past 20 years. She is currently helping to build the work of the Trust Web, a collective focused on transforming money, power and ourselves through deep relationships, practicing new ways of being, and expanding our imaginations. She has been on a parallel journey of reparative ancestry, working with other white people and in multiracial groups on healing and repair related to US slavery, and is the associate producer of the new documentary Acts of Reparation.
Elspeth was most recently the Development Director at Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, working to make interdependence the core tenet of this country’s system of care. She is a longtime (now alumni) member of and former Executive Director at Resource Generation, ushering in the current mission to “organize young people with access to wealth and class privilege to become transformative leaders working toward the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.” Elspeth has been practicing active listening rooted in liberation for 17 years. She is a visual artist, currently taking a deep dive into quilting. Elspeth is a graduate of Earlham College and lives in New York City where she grew up, though she is equally happy in the woods.
