Simon Mont

Growing up, my family played a lot of board games, which meant I was always learning systems of rules, accomplishing goals, and relating that intimately to my sense of familial connection. In a way, I’m still doing that, co-creating systems that blend rules, relationships, strategies and purpose. I feel blessed to be able to do that with inspiring people in service of our healing and liberation. I have been focused on collective liberation for as long as I can remember, though I didn’t always call it that.

It began as a deep sense of justice, fairness, and belonging largely informed by my Jewishness, growing up with a brother with a disability, and being raised by parents that made sure I understood my positionality in global systems. This fire for justice and integrity has been the primary guide for my life. It has led me on a journey of reflection, confrontation, healing, and action to shake loose the social conditioning I inherited and become an agent for political, economic, and spiritual liberation of all; including myself.

I bring a decade of experience as an alternative economies lawyer, facilitator, and organizer in a variety of communities. I’ve been a canvasser in DC, an organizer in Oakland, and a school teacher in South Arkansas. I’ve sat in circles at San Quentin Prison and Burning Man. I’ve been zip-tied in police vans, and in camouflage in hunting tree stands. I’ve held hands to sing and to block traffic. Nowadays I shuttle between Colorado and California, cross-pollinating the worlds of grassroots organizing, business, technology, and wealth