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The Transformative Leadership for Change Fellowship (TLC) is a fellowship program designed to build the power and leadership of social change leaders of color in Colorado.

05/08/2026

The spiral is a powerful, ancient, and universal symbol across the planet, representing the growth, evolution, and the journey of life. There is no better symbol to represent the TLC journey.

In this season’s edition of TRANSP!RE, the TLC team shares:

“While we send ripple effects of transformation across the spiral of our influence across the Colorado (and national) movement ecosystem, we have simultaneously traveled inward, deepening our practice of embedding our Liberatory Leadership Values into every aspect of the organization.”

TRANSP!RE is a seasonal offering of movement wisdom, updates, and resources from Transformative Leadership for Change.

Sign up for updates on our website and have it delivered straight to your inbox, or read the full version now!
https://transformleaders.org/transpire-quarterly-newsletter-spring-2026

Sculpture image:
“Calling on the Spirits” Brian Nyanhongo,
Chapungu Sculpture Park (Loveland, CO)

05/05/2026

TLC has a whole new look and vibe, so it feels right that we reintroduce ourselves!

First up: the newest member of our team, Ash Ferguson, graduate of TLC 2023-2024 Fellowship, former Co-Executive Director of Soul 2 Soul Sisters, and highly trained somatic practitioner & coach. We welcome Ash in their role as FAM Engagement Director!

We asked Ash a few questions to (re)introduce her to you all. Drop a 🌀 in the comments to welcome Ash to the team!

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Get To Know Me with Ash Ferguson
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💬 What’s your go-to comfort meal?
Cajun Black Eyed Pea and Collard green stew, yams and cornbread or traditional Southern cuisine.

💬 Coffee, tea, or something else entirely?
Black Sesame Matcha or chai.

💬 What’s a song you always come back to?
I am Light by India Arie.

💬 Morning person or night owl?
Morning person.

💬 Favorite way to spend a free afternoon?
I love being in nature so sitting by a river listening to what spirit has for me.

💬 What’s something small that brings you joy every day?
Just knowing that life is just going to get sweeter and sweeter every day.

💬 What excites you most about the work ahead?
I want to aid in refilling our movement leaders cups, remind them of their tools and create portals to sit the work down, build community and kick back together.

05/01/2026

Check out our very own Vic with the new swag!!

TLC creates spaces for healing, resilience, interdependence and sustainability. We nurture radical creativity to vision new solutions, opening up new ways to move, lead, and thrive – even in the current conditions we are facing.

This spring, we invite you to celebrate our new look and help tend to a movement that is growing, taking root, and healing from the inside out. Become a sustaining donor with TLC today at $25 per month or increase your monthly donation to $25 and get a TLC-branded sustainable, refillable water bottle from Hydro Flask as a thank you. Who doesn’t love merch that makes a difference?

Only 10 bottles left…act fast!
🔗bit.ly/givetoTLC

Thank you for helping us fund liberatory leadership in Colorado!

Remember our Instagram and Facebook names have been updated: , and visit our new site at https://transformleaders.org!

04/24/2026

🔗 https://bit.ly/givetoTLC

We invite you to resource a healing-centric, liberatory leadership model rooted right here in Colorado, supporting BIPOC movement weavers, change makers and warriors. Become a sustaining donor with TLC at $25 per month or increase your monthly donation to $25 and get a sustainable, refillable Hydro Flask water bottle as a thank you.

These cuties (in 4 colors!) are going quickly and we have a limited supply, act now!

Explore what we’re building on our new site: transformleaders.org, and note that our Instagram and Facebook names have been updated:

Thank you for helping us fund liberatory leadership in Colorado!

04/22/2026

At the end of last year, the TLC community lost one of our most beloved members, Mimi Estelle Madrid Puga (he/they/she), 2021-2022 TLC Fellow, and Founder/Executive Director of Fortaleza Familiar, a community-based nonprofit dedicated to the wellbeing of Indigenous, Chicanx, Latinx, LGBTQ and Two-Spirit young people and their families in Colorado.

It is spring, and you can hear Mimi still speaking to us in the language of sunflower seeds, hummingbirds, and Assata Shakur chants. Mimi remains present in the soil of the earth, the stars in the cosmos, and in the winds that connect the two. Mimi lives on forever in the hearts and souls of those of us who had the privilege to love them and be loved by them.

Visit https://transformleaders.org to read our full tribute to Mimi in the latest edition of TRANSP!RE, a seasonal offering of movement wisdom, updates, and resources from Transformative Leadership for Change.

https://transformleaders.org/transpire-quarterly-newsletter-spring-2026

04/17/2026

Check out TLC’s new swag! 😎

Become a TLC sustaining donor at $25 per month or increase your monthly donation to $25 and receive an eco-friendly refillable Hydro Flask water bottle as a thank you. Hydration never looked so cute, and we have a limited supply, so if it’s calling you, act now.

🔗bit.ly/givetoTLC

While the water bottle is a must-have, every recurring donation helps strengthen our offerings to a growing community of changemakers: 104 BIPOC leaders from 82 social justice organizations within the Colorado ecosystem.

Thank you for helping us fund liberatory leadership in Colorado! Remember to take explore our new website at https://www.transformleaders.org, and note that our Instagram and Facebook names have been updated:

04/08/2026

Our core values: ABUNDANCE 💐
We cultivate the spirit of abundance and shift paradigms of scarcity within ourselves and the TLC community. We reclaim our generational wealth through rich ancestral traditions and collective resilience, while unapologetically claiming an abundant future. In this spirit, we work to resource our communities through reparations, land back, wealth reclamation, and wealth redistribution. We practice stewarding these reclaimed resources in ways that promote new economic systems rooted in healing, care, justice, regeneration, and solidarity.

Across the many years we’ve been doing this work collectively as BIPOC leaders, many of us have shared a familiar feeling: Lack. Absence. Scarcity. We’ve been asked and tasked to build, lead, and hold communities without the resources to sustain them. Over time, the belief that there simply isn’t enough, can settle in. Deeply.

TLC began (almost 10 years ago!) by choosing something different: we reimagined a space for BIPOC leaders rooted in ABUNDANCE.

A space where support is real, resources are present, and the collective investment is visible. This takes agreement, and a shift in mindset. It takes a commitment to create and practice abundance in ways that can be felt.

Thank you for being part of creating this abundance with us.

Please take a moment to explore our new website at transformleaders.org and note that our Instagram and Facebook names have been updated!

Comment 💐 for the beautiful leadership reflected across TLC and the communities growing alongside us!

03/26/2026

Evolving with Intention 🌀

We are SO EXCITED to share TLC’s rebrand with all of you - the community that has grown alongside us! This is a reflection of how we’ve evolved through the work, the relationships, and the connected vision that we continue to build together.

Our goal is to revitalize and refresh the ways in which we bring visibility to our TLC community of change makers who are redefining our movement’s relationship to conflict, healing, and leadership. Profound gratitude to Design Action Collective who guided us through this process with such care and commitment. We are in LOVE with this new visual expression of TLC!

Our values remain at the core of everything we do:

Abundance
Joy
Creativity & Imagination
Accountability & Transparency
Gratitude
Rest & Sustainability
Stewardship
Healing
Boldness & Innovation

Take a moment to explore our new website at https://transformleaders.org, and note that our Instagram and Facebook names have been updated:

This is just the beginning of our next chapter. So much more to come.

Drop a 🌀if you made it to the end of this post to show some love!

03/20/2026

2026 (so far!) Vendor Shout Outs 🗣️

We all know that good food is one of the greatest connectors! It helps us settle into shared spaces, inviting us into comfort, ease, and good conversation when we gather. This is why the TLC team is so intentional about working with BIPOC caterers that make this co-creation possible.

/// Follow and support these providers. We’re thankful to have worked with them during our inaugural 2026 events and gatherings!

Taste The Love Cooking
We were introduced to this caterer through the Center for Community Wealth, and what a gift! Founded by Angela Ray, whose roots trace back to Kansas City, her cooking intertwines with family, legacy, and tradition. Inspired by her grandmother and a longing for KC-style barbecue and Creole cuisine, everything is made from scratch using family recipes. And yes, the pies really are legendary!
https://www.tastethelovecooking.com
http://instagram.com/tastethelovecooking

Mississippi Boy & Catfish
This is southern soul food in its truest form, right here in Denver! The food at Mississippi Boy & Catfish carries the spirit of Mississippi, and when you visit their Park Hill spot, you’re stepping right into a delicious southern experience, often accompanied by live jazz 🎷
https://mississippiboy5280.com
http://instagram.com/mississippiboycatfish.ribs

Chi’íl Indigenous Foods
Chi’íl Indigenous Foods centers Indigenous ingredients, knowledge, and traditions. Their work honors ancestral foodways while centering connection and cultural continuity. We’re grateful to have shared space with them and to learn from what they bring to the table.
https://www.chil-indigenousfoods.com
http://instagram.com/chil_indigenousfoods

02/14/2026

We’re sending deep love to our community. To our folx doing the hard work on the frontlines. To the legacy of our Black ancestors whose courage lives in us. We see you. We hear you.

Love is the foundation upon which every aspect of TLC has been built. We believe that love is the greatest resource available to us all. We cultivate spaces that center love for ourselves, each other and all living beings.

01/19/2026

On this MLK Day, we’re thinking about what “progress” actually asks of us.

Dr. King reminded us that, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Our lives, our labor, and our futures are linked, whether systems acknowledge that or not.

He also warned against us settling for surface change: “I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.”

Justice is the work of naming what is broken, holding those in positions of power accountable, restoring those who have carried the cost, and doing the hard and dangerous work of changing systems that decide who thrives, who barely survives, and who pays with their actual lives.

We stand with communities across who are pushing for something better.

Every day, we choose solidarity.

...and many more.

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