Laura Livoti operates Spark Lab, a wealth coaching and philanthropic advising firm. Spark Lab clients benefit from her lifelong volunteer commitment to movement-based work, years of experience as a nonprofit leader, and decades of working with families, individuals, and institutional donors to move resources for grassroots strategies to win intersectional justice. As a leader in the philanthropic sector, she practiced trust-based philanthropy, supported the spend-out of a family foundation, and promoted the concept of integrated voter engagement, which focuses some of the vast resources that are mobilized during elections on organizations with a membership base among the often-overlooked rising American electorate of low-income and BIPOC voters. Laura enjoys the creativity of designing values-aligned programs. With Willa Conway and Ada McMahon, she co-facilitates Rupture and Repair, a New Orleans-based learning community for White people with wealth. She serves on the steering committee of the Kindle Project and has guided a variety of experiments in participatory grantmaking, including co-designing Native Voices Rising, a pooled fund that disburses grants based on the recommendations of Native community members. Born in New York, raised in California, living in the South, and holding strong ties to West Africa, Laura’s cultural background infuses her consulting practice with a mix of candor, softness, and flexibility that results in presence and an aptitude for emergence. Her coaching practice reflects training with Lumia. She studied with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and completed the Kingian Nonviolence program. Ecofeminist, Charlene Spretnak, and deep ecologist, Joanna Macy were among her teachers. Laura brings respect for all beings and ecosystems to her practice, as well as a belief in the healing power of poetry, music, and movement.