Our core team & partners
Founded by Taj James, Sihle Dinani and Rachel Burrows, Full Spectrum Labs launched in 2020. Committed to a Just Transition towards reparative and regenerative economies, FSL works to nurture and grow the ecosystem of people, organizations and networks advancing community ownership and wealth building strategies.
Our core group represents a diverse range of design-thinkers, strategists and practitioners. We are a growing network of solidarity economy lawyers, financial strategists, capital and community stewards, researchers and facilitators.
Rachel loves the intersection of vision and action and finds great energy and joy in supporting people to explore their right roles and relationships in the sacred work of building a new tomorrow. Rachel brings decades of experience from her work with Movement Strategy Center and other movement organizations.
Sihle is a financial and operational strategist with over 20 years of finance and operations expertise. Sihle is passionate about designing and supporting expansive and highly functioning community economic infrastructure.
Taj is a father, poet, strategist, designer, philanthropic and capital advisor. Taj thrives on connecting community stewards and capital stewards to bring financial value into alignment with sacred values in ways that build community wealth.
Anand focuses on supporting nonprofits, values-driven businesses, and other social justice-oriented groups develop strategies to build and leverage economic power for social good and community empowerment.
Ben is a builder and strategist focused on helping mission-driven organizations develop sustainable revenue models. As Venture Manager at the Full Spectrum Venture Studio, he works with nonprofit and movement partners to design and launch earned revenue strategies that support long-term independence and growth. He is currently serving as COO of Just.Safe.Food and is the founder of Proximate Press. He previously led communications and strategy at the NAACP and Center for American Progress.
Chad's purpose is to catalyze Liberatory Wealth Redistribution. As an enoughness coach, he helps Capital Stewards with resource security find values-choices alignment. He partners with organizations like Adasina, Full Spectrum Group, The Good Life Pledge, and Forward Global. Chad was the Chief Information Officer at Sequoia Capital for 12 years before pivoting to capital activism work in 2020.
Dorcas has two decades of experience as a racial and economic justice advocate, attorney, and consultant working with nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and small businesses. Gilmore Khandhar is a solidarities economy law firm.
Felipe works at the intersection of community and capital, building pathways that connect community stewards, funders, and enterprises to advance regenerative, community-owned economies. He supports foundations, intermediaries, and fund managers in deploying integrated capital with greater alignment, transparency, and accountability.
Julie is a strategist who centers narrative to grow and strengthen strategies for cultural, economic, and political power.
Marie-Louise Joseph is a multi-lingual, first-generation American with over 18 years of Operations and Human Resources experience. The daughter of Haitian and Nicaraguan immigrants, Marie has held leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies and grassroots nonprofit organizations.
Inspired by land and storytelling, Omar is building a gratitude ecosystem and regenerative economy. He takes an entrepreneurial approach to tackling large-scale challenges at the intersection of nature, culture and creative finance. His work has been featured by Simon Sinek, the Wall Street Journal, and on Oprah.com.
Parag is an experienced Asian Americanist and community lawyer who has worked with tenants, micro-enterprise owners, and community members self-organizing in nonprofit, business, and cooperative structures.
At Full Spectrum, Vinita supports community wealth building and just transition projects through co-leading place based collaboratives, bringing in, more acutely, the lens of reparative/restorative community ownership models. Trained as an architect and urban planner layered with her own immigrant, woman of color experience in the United States, Vinita brings perspectives from the non-profit sector, in philanthropy, and in the public sector.