Co-Founder, Executive Director

Brittany Koteles is the Director of Land Justice Futures. With a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, she comes to this work through years of exploration at the intersection of social justice and spirituality. Previously, she led the U.S. Fellowship program for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she authored Stories of Scale, a book about Spanish social entrepreneurs, during her tenure as a Fulbright scholar at ESADE's Center for Social Innovation in Barcelona. Brittany is an auntie, neighbor, writer, facilitator, and runner. She lives on Potawatomi land in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Co-Founder, Director of Public Engagement

A popular educator and community organizer, Sarah focuses on building movement partnerships, internal/external alignment, and strategic direction for Land Justice Futures, as well as supporting the design and development of our programs. Sarah was part of the founding team of Nuns & Nones. She also co-founded the Open Master's, an initiative supporting lifelong learners in the emancipatory tradition of popular education, and Alt*Div, a 2-year experiment in creating a grassroots alternative to divinity school for artists, activists, and community builders. She currently lives on Tewa lands in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she gets to love and be loved by the Bosque and Rio Grande and is dangerously close to getting a cat.

Focus Communities Program Coordinator

Brenna is a founding member of St. Isidore Catholic Worker Farm, an intentional community trying to live justly with the land through prayer, creation care, hospitality, education, and nonviolent direct action. She is also a founding member of Catholics for Boarding School Accountability, a grassroots network of religious and lay Catholics working to respond to the harmful legacy of Native American Boarding Schools through research, repentance, and repair.

Operations Manager

Brel is already an important part of Land Justice Futures as a member of our Movement Advisory Council, and now they are taking on the important task of making our systems and structures sing as our organization grows!

Brel has roots in the co-op movement in Madison, Wisconsin as a member of Madison Community Cooperative, Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance, and the United People of Color Caucus. And they have served as the Director of Development Services for NASCO, a cooperative that organizes and educates affordable group equity co-ops and their members for the purpose of promoting a community-oriented cooperative movement.

Art, Storytelling & Communications Lead

Amy is an artist, designer, brand strategist, visual culture nerd and educator. She joined the team in 2023 as our art, storytelling and communications lead, and is all about finding ways to not only tell the story of our work to the wider world, but to build the tools and practices of art and story into all aspects of the work. Amy taught art and visual language in universities for 13 years, and ran a business helping progressive organizations and small business owners build creativity and art into their brands and marketing plans for 6 years before joining Land Justice Futures.

Amy lives, works and plays in the ocean in Providence, RI with her child, partner, and 2 strange cats.

Coach & Community Liaison

Based in Kentucky, Hilary is a political educator, community safety practitioner, author, and former director of political education at SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice). She teaches with generative somatics and is thrilled to be a new Coach and Community Liaison for our Focus Communities at Land Justice Futures.

Coach & Community Liaison

Based in Kentucky, Jessie is joining us in the role of Coach and Community Liaison for our Focus Communities Program. Jessie most recently served as the Loretto Community's Earth Education and Advocacy Coordinator, a role in which she helped the Loretto Community explore and implement ways to further live into their commitment to living in just and loving partnership with Earth.