Supporting Activists with Secret Trust Funds with Morgan Curtis

Supporting Activists with Secret Trust Funds with Morgan Curtis

Listen in to hear Morgan Curtis’ story from climate activism, to fossil fuel divestment, to working with her people - inheritors with class privilege. We explore motivation: how guilt can open the door but love sustains transformation. We get practical about the gift economy at Canticle Farm, unpack the “activist with a secret trust fund” archetype, and follow the path that led her to Harvard Divinity School—and eventually into university classrooms—to teach redistribution and repair. 

As Morgan reflects on lineage and belonging, we keep asking what it means to turn privilege into relationships strong enough to change us. There’s a different kind of money conversation happening here—one that begins at a family archive and ends with a future imagined in community. 

Morgan Curtis — Money coach, facilitator, ritualist, organizer

Morgan descends from early settler colonizers of what is now Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York and names how her family’s privileges are tied to stolen land, enslaved labor, and extractive industry. Politicized through the fossil fuel divestment movement, she spent eight years organizing and educating in climate and social justice spaces, where grief work, ritual, and storytelling became central to her approach.

Today, Morgan supports people with inherited wealth in moving toward redistribution, reparations, and ancestral repair. A long-time member of Canticle Farm (Oakland, CA), she practices gift economy, nonviolence, and restorative justice in community. She holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School focused on the spiritual dimensions of reparations for white descendants of colonizers and enslavers, and is a graduate of the Academy for Coaching Excellence (ICF-aligned; 200+ training hours and 300+ supervised hours). Morgan is publicly redistributing 100% of her inherited wealth and 50% of her coaching income, is connected with Resource Generation and Solidaire Network, and authored the chapbook “Decolonial Dames of America.”

Episode Highlights:

• Coaching inheritors toward repair
• Turning divestment inward— looking at the family portfolio
• The “activist with a secret trust fund” archetype
• The hidden costs of wealth: isolation and fear
• Ancestors & Money Cohort: research + ritual
• Land back: modeling change when politics feel bleak
• Beyond guilt: love as sustainable motivation
• Practicing the gift economy at Canticle Farm
• The spark for “Decolonial Dames of America”
• Transformation through collective healing and organizing

Keywords

#MoneyCoaching #Redistribution #Reparations #AncestralHealing #GiftEconomy #LandBack #Divestment #ReparativeJustice

Resources

Morgan Curtis website Morgan’s letter to her descendants Instagram Decolonial Dames of America

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