Maren Cadwallender (they/them) is the Development Director at AICH. Maren is a landcare worker, organizer, and fundraiser raised on the Rappahannock and Patowmeck lands, known as Fredericksburg, Virginia, where their family has profited off and stewarded stolen land and waterways since the 1600s. Now based in Brooklyn, NY they aim to move collectively towards beneficial interdependence between humans and with the more-than-human world through ecological and community care. They have led fundraising campaigns and donor organizing teams for the Manna-hatta Fund, the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City, and the Movement for Black Lives, including the Southern Power Fund. They are committed to building communities of deep democracy and accountability. Maren has personal experience redistributing inherited wealth to social justice movements and supporting others to build redistribution plans and give boldly. They ground their work in embodiment, place and community and credit growing these skills within Resource Generation NYC, White Racial Justice Somatics and Embodying Racial Justice Somatics, communities of anti-racists in Virginia, including Standing Up for Racial Justice and Southerners On New Ground folks, CEANYC and the Central Brooklyn Food Co-op. mcadwallender@aich.org