Roan Boucher (he/him)

I bring 20+ years of experience supporting hundreds of social justice organizations to deepen resilience, collective governance, and liberatory practices in alignment with their values.

In 2010, I cofounded AORTA (the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening social justice movements and organizations through facilitation, training, consulting, coaching, and strategy. I spent 15 years co-creating AORTA and working with hundreds of community organizations, progressive nonprofits, co-ops, and student groups to build power and collective strategy for social change.

I became politicized as a teenager through queer, trans, and feminist anti-racist organizing, and cut my teeth as an organizer in ACT UP, immigrant justice, and anti-war collectives. In my 20s, I worked with Resource Generation to organize young lefty rich/class-privileged people to fight for wealth redistribution and reparations. My class politics have been deeply shaped by intersectional economic justice organizing led by poor people, in particular working with the Bay Area based POOR Magazine, a poor and indigenous people-led grassroots organization doing economic justice work through art, organizing, media, education, and multigenerational community building. I have spent many years wrestling with anti-capitalist questions about how to use, distribute, leverage money and resources; in 2008, I co-founded the website Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism, an online space to share strategies for creating more just and economically sustainable movements and communities, with Dean Spade; we are currently compiling a collection of essays from organizers on these themes.

In addition to my consulting and facilitation practice, I am an artist making work for movements, communities, and beloveds. I organize with local mutual aid and Palestine solidarity groups, and I’m deeply involved in building anti-Zionist Jewish spiritual community.

I’m a white, Jewish, queer and transgender person living on the ancestral lands of the Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, Shakori, and Tuscarora people, in the Triangle area of North Carolina, with my two brilliant children and two tiny dogs.