Jaclyn Gilstrap

Campaign Support – Digital Presence & Community

Jaclyn Gilstrap (she/her) is a community connector, group facilitator, birth doula, and artist whose work is rooted in deep listening.

With Beloved Economies, Jaclyn has played many roles, including conducting narrative testing interviews, copy-editing text for the Beloved Economies website, consulting on the book’s imagery, and even leading a website re-design.

Outside of Beloved Economies, Jaclyn is an independent consultant, podcast co-creator, and Co-Director of the visual note-taking/graphic recording firm, A Visual Approach.

Her background is in global reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, rape crisis support, ethical global engagement, and racial equity. She speaks Spanish, English and Azerbaijani.

Jaclyn and her cat live in North Carolina with their beloved community and medium successful garden.

Lauren Ressler

Campaign Support – Engagement Strategy & Philanthropic Advocacy  

Lauren Ressler joins the Beloved Economies team as movement building and development strategist. Lauren got her start organizing for the closure and just transition of coal power plants in Washington State in 2009. She went on to support thousands of students, community groups, and faith leaders across the country demanding divestment from prison profiteers and fossil fuel companies as Campaigns Director at the Responsible Endowments Coalition. 

In 2017, she began working with Freedom to Thrive to build a culture of giving to fund the movement to end mass incarceration and immigrant detention. She has over a decade of experience designing and facilitating dynamic spaces that build trust, generatively move through conflict, and reach collaborative decisions. She is thrilled to be part of the Beloved Economies team and to support the growth of co-creative spaces that center meaning and nourish community. Lauren uses she/her pronouns.

Mỹ Tâm Nguyễn

Campaign Support – Mobilization Strategy 

Mỹ Tâm supports the people behind impactful ideas in art, business, entrepreneurship, investment, and philanthropy to launch, transition, and scale. At Beloved Economies, she collaborates with team members and community partners on strategies to deepen relationships and build catalytic transformations through the Beloved Economies book and campaign. She has a masters degree in urban planning from Harvard and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international studies from the University of Washington (Go Huskies!) She serves on the board for Community Credit Lab, utilizing affordable credit as a tool to remove barriers and unlock economic opportunity. She is an avid home cook and reader and hopes to one day beat her own record of reading 200 books in 2020.