MEET OUR TEAM

avry jxn joins the Resist team as a strategist, organizer, and artist who leads radically from the land. avry is committed to changing the material conditions of Black families whose legacies are stained by the Indigenous genocide of American plantations. Through their work with fundraising, resource development, and wealth redistribution avry stands firmly on the frontlines of decolonizing philanthropy to aggressively redirect resources from entities that hoard, to our communities. avry continues a deep legacy of innovative way-making that he leverages to grow movements that build generational power. avry is also a horseman whose work with horses is a liberatory stewardship of the horse’s pre-colonial wisdom.

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Jasmine Gomez, Esq. (they/them) is a queer, Puerto Rican attorney and activist in the Boston community currently serving as the Co-Director of Radical Philanthropy at Resist, Inc. Jasmine advocates for equity with a critical race analysis through fundraising efforts, programmatic support, direct action, popular education, legal aid, healing justice, and empowering frontline communities. Within Resist, Jasmine has been collaborating with the community on building a community and birthing center after fully divesting from the stock market, as well as supporting fundraising efforts, and working to shift the power dynamics in the field of philanthropy.  

Prior to Resist, Jasmine led civic engagement, women’s public leadership, and solidarity economy initiative program areas at Access Strategies Fund. In each of these areas, Jasmine worked with community leaders to create strategic development around the goals, budget, and arc of the program. Jasmine supported weaving into these programs healing justice practices, critical analysis, and radical imagination through popular education and facilitation. Jasmine also worked in each of these areas to support fundraising, organizing philanthropy, and thinking of new ways to expand support to our ecosystems.

Previous to Access Strategies Fund, Jasmine was a constitutional lawyer and Democracy Honors Fellow at Free Speech For People. While there Jasmine provided legal research and organizing strategies to aid grassroots organizations advancing a Constitutional amendment to eliminate unlimited influence of money on elections and end corporation’s claiming Constitutional rights. While at FSFP, Jasmine used their critical race theory framework to pioneer a number of reports, events, and initiatives working toward making the pro-democracy community more intersectional and inclusive. In their free time, Jasmine was also a lead organizer for several rallies that brought together hundreds of people in the fight for queer and trans liberation, the decolonization of Puerto Rico, against immigration deportations, and against the normalization of white supremacy. They organized and facilitated educational workshops, trainings, and events rooted in healing justice and building community.

Jasmine is on the board of the Massachusetts National Lawyers Guild, Movement Sustainability Commons, and the Justice Funders. Jasmine attended law school at Boston University, where Jasmine worked with the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, was part of the Journal of Science and Technology Law, developed frameworks rooted in critical race theory and intersectionality, and held multiple leadership roles.

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Kathy Lebrón believes in the power of dance, storytelling, and village co-creation as vehicles for healing and transformation. As a performing eduvist, and a radical, feminist mother, Kathy is committed to supporting creative strategies and interventions that take the lead from those birthing future generations and helps them in building a world for the many and not the few. She is experimenting with making this real through her collective, Comadres Liberadas.

Aside from her work at Resist, Kathy is the founder of The Radical Maestra, a consulting firm that curates learning experiences and culturally sustaining curricula for schools and organizations servicing BIPOC and multilingual students and families. Through this work, she aims to promote a healthy, liberatory, and anti-racist learning environment for students most impacted by oppression.  

When not working, you can find Kathy playing in nature with her son, planning her next trip abroad, or creating choreography to her favorite music.

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Imani Bashir is a storyteller, strategist, and mother whose work is deeply rooted in social justice and the liberation of marginalized communities. Having lived across five countries over seven years, she has cultivated a global perspective that celebrates cross-cultural connectivity and the shared struggles—and joy—of people with marginalized identities. Whether through journalism, advocacy, or content creation, Imani amplifies narratives that challenge systemic oppression and uplift those too often left at the margins.

Her work spans media, travel, and communications, always guided by a commitment to equity and collective care. She is fiercely invested in creating a world where her son—and all children—can thrive in safety, dignity, and truth. Imani believes in the transformative power of storytelling to bridge divides and build movements, and she continues to use her voice to imagine, and work toward, a freer, more compassionate world.

Nicki Kattoura (he/him) is a Palestinian organizer currently based in Philadelphia. He is an editor at Common Notions, a press that publishes books from within movements against white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and all things that keep us unfree. Nicki joined Resist as a member of the grant-making panel for 2020-2021 and is excited to continue working on getting funds to those at the frontlines of struggle as a staff collective member.

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