Tracy Burt's Bio

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Org: Burt Family Foundation
Location: San Francisco

Bio:

Tracy lives in San Francisco with her partner Chagua and their beagle Pepper. She enjoys cooking, hiking, improv, and connecting with friends. She works as the Principal for the Burt Family Foundation, which was founded by her parents in 1997. She has worked closely with the Making Money Make Change Conference and Resource Generation, a community of young progressive people with wealth or access, to support herself and others in similar roles/situations in terms of wealth. She also co-founded the Movement Generation Support Committee in the Bay Area and the Gulf South Allied Funders, a group working to raise $1 million/year for at least 3 years to support just and equitable rebuilding in the Gulf South, led by the Twenty-First Century Foundation. She also serves as an instructor in Child Development and Family Studies at City College of San Francisco, where her main areas of teaching and learning are supporting LGBT families, multicultural education.

"Experiencing the Jam has created space for many positive changes and evolutions in my life. First of all I feel surrounded by a community of people who love and honor me. Second, I have felt freed up in terms of my relationship to my financial resources. Not only do I feel less isolated and more connected, but I also grapple much less with guilt and feel more of an authentic sense of abundance which, ironically, seemed to be missing sometimes. Finally, I have given away over $10,000 since the Jam--significantly more than I had before. I am giving from a place of abundance and sufficiency instead of guilt, responsibility or obligation, and that is incredibly rewarding. In terms of concrete projects, a lot has happened. Three of us took on a project of revising the Money Survey that has been used at conferences for young people with wealth. We have created a new draft and recruited 5 other people to serve on the team to turn this into a wonderful tool for young people to use for reflection about having access to exceptional financial wealth. Ian Simmons and I are going to facilitate an Open Space Cafe time at the next Making Money Make Change (MMMC) conference, which we learned how to do from Shilpa Jain at the Jam. Finally, I am compiling the notes from the discussion we had exploring what a root cause is and an interactive documentation panel will be presented to the participants at MMMC."