our team

Rise Collective is women-owned and queer-owned and -operated and composed of team members of varying identities and backgrounds. Keep scrolling to meet the people who make us a collective.

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Creative + Strategy

Branding + Design + Social Media + Messaging

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Brijae Morris is a multidisciplinary artist with an interest in design, marketing, illustration, and motion graphics. She graduated with an Advertising Design BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. With a great desire to bring ideas to life and tell a story through design, Brijae wants to embrace ideals that foster change and truly make an impact on the lives of others. Utilizing her wide-ranging expertise to combine innovative concepts and design principles, she aspires to be a passionate creative to visually connect with those around us.

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Alo is a multi-passionate creative who enjoys community building, brand strategy, event organizing and storytelling. They are a non-binary Puerto Rican who is excited about working with innovative brands that shift paradigms of power and bring marginalized voices front and center.
They have received a Bachelors in both Creative Writing and Vocal Music from CUNY Hunter College. Their industry experience ranges
from education to event management to hospitality, and entrepreneurship. They are currently developing a retreat in Borinken centering queer diasporic folks, agriculture, and wellness through community building.

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Garrett is a yoga and meditation facilitator living on the land of the Seminole and Timucua people, known today as Orlando, FL. He believes that a yoga practice is much more expansive than just moving through a series of poses. Yoga is a practice of liberation – of connecting with our innate wholeness and dispelling the myth that we are broken beings in need of fixing. Garrett seeks to create spaces for people to slow down, invite in curiosity, and explore new possibilities. He firmly believes that if you’re breathing, then you can practice yoga, and he is passionate about sharing yoga in a way that is approachable and accessible for everyone by offering different options and variations for folks to explore what feels best in their bodies. Garrett is committed to sharing practices that help people care for themselves and their communities because he believes that everything is interconnected. We’re stronger together, and yoga can teach us how to work collectively to disrupt and dismantle the systems of power and oppression that prevent all of us from thriving and being well.

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Eli is a nonbinary Amazigh Muslim who strongly believes art cannot exist outside of activism. Elias received their MFA from Howard University in Electronic Studio Art. Though their main medium is printmaking (screenprinting, linocuts, digital and film photography), the underlying motif of their body of work is pleasure justice. They address this concept by highlighting experiences usually shuffled to the margins, focusing on the ways identity (one's race, ethnicity, gender, religion, class, ability, etc) affect one's access and relationship to pleasure. They are based in occupied Piscataway and Nacotchtank lands.

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Join Kristina on the path to anti-racist, anti-capitalist, sex positive liberation…by any means! Her passion for examining the world around her through visual culture has led her into the field of marketing and branding over the past 7 years. Kristina brings a discerning and critical lens to her work across the arts, hospitality, wellness, and sports industries.
She is a third generation Caribbean American, born and raised on Lenape land in NYC. Her practices are informed by an intersectional lens dedicated to collective liberation. This comes into fruition across her multi-hyphenate work as an artist, death doula, meditation guide, and more.
Kristina is a lover of pilgrimages and has traveled across the world solo.

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With over thirteen years of experience, Alan is an experienced designer, animator, and director who has lent his talents to a diverse range of projects. He has contributed his expertise to brand and identity development, advertising and marketing, and the creation of multi-channel digital experiences. As the day-to-day leader of a team of designers, he collaborated extensively with Con Edison to develop a comprehensive overhaul of their digital customer experience, marketing, and services. This included a brand extension initiative that effectively altered customers' perceptions of the company. While working at Oliver Wyman, Alan contributed to the development of a Financial Wellness app for MetLife, a major initiative for the insurance company. He has worked to create digital experiences for Chase, AT&T AdWorks, Blue Man Group, Netflix Media Center, Columbia University Medical Center, and United Nations Environmental Protection Agency.

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Emmy is a creative brand strategist and mama who has spent her decade-long career cultivating and marketing communities across industries, specifically in health & wellness, music, and entertainment. She is a heart-centered leader who believes in the power of storytelling. As a previous brick-and-mortar small business owner and E-RYT, she loves collaborating with folks who are building something meaningful. She lives for a good pop-music dance break alongside values-focused work that supports a more equitable and inclusive world. Emmy believes in and strives toward collaboration with curiosity, courage, and compassion. She's got a deep love for people, early 2000s pop culture, integrity, and good energy. She also firmly believes that a day without eating cheese is like a night without stars, dull and unfulfilling.

Operations

Administration + Finance + Systems

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Kayla with long curly dark brown hair soft smiling at the camera

Salma holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from the Dominican University of California. From working with immigrants facing deportation to managing administration for Islamic nonprofits, Salma has held various different positions as a young professional and is passionate about social issues facing BIPOC communities domestically and abroad. As a daughter of Egyptian immigrants and a proud woman of color, she is a big proponent of decolonization, abolition and challenging the status quo. Salma is currently a Masters student at the University of Chicago, studying the impact of colonialism on present day North Africa. In her spare time, she enjoys solo travelling (pre-COVID), writing, reading and hanging out with her plants!

Kayla is a student of economics and math and loves to create workflow systems that encourage gentle productivity. She loves the seasons, thriller novels, and traveling. If they aren’t working or studying, you can find them at the beach or bird watching with her cats.

Sarah is a communications specialist, equity advocate, and devoted bookworm. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 2022 with a dual BA in English and Women & Gender Studies. Through her integrative communications processes, Sarah dedicates her work to non-profit and mission-driven organizations innovating ways of living, working, and connecting on a human level. Having a hand in providing organizations with the tools to achieve extraordinary infrastructural impact — through copywriting & social media strategy — energizes her spirit. As a throughline, Sarah believes in the power of having love at the center of everything you do.

Max (they/them) is a community organizer and systems enthusiast. They've worked in political advocacy since high school, where they also discovered their love for organizational systems (did someone say color coded class planner?!). They live by Malcom X’s wise words: “We’re not outnumbered. We’re out organized.” When they’re not working, they’re paddleboarding, taking a bubble bath, or desperately looking for other sources of water in the dry landscape of Denver, Colorado.

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Sue Getman reminds us: Aging populations are often left out of the conversation, especially when it comes to media and marketing. True inclusivity means including older adults. And they have knowledge younger folks only dream about. That’s why we’ve included Sue’s bio in her own words:
“My 40 years of nonprofit service can be characterized by these 3 words: Boost. Connect. Cheer.
Boost: As a colleague, boss and mentor, I’ve sought to enhance the confidence and capacity of individuals and organizations so they can aspire to and achieve their goals.
Connect: My absolute favorite thing to do is link people to ideas, people to people, people to solutions. The satisfying result may be as huge as a community partnership that transforms multiple lives or as simple as a smile from someone who gets the answer they need.
Cheer: I want my team to win! A pat on the back, a sensitive critique, an encouraging word, a rallying cry: whatever it takes to champion a cause, a child, an older person, a loved one and spur success. I’m a loyal fan.
I’ve put these words into action while directing five nonprofits: two Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies, two senior centers and one financial coaching program. My education at Wake Forest University (bachelor’s in English) and Rider College (master’s in counseling) + lots of professional and life experience (and heaps of support from family and friends) made it possible.
And when I want to refresh? You’ll find me taking a walk with my high school sweetheart, reading a book, cuddling a grandchild, singing in church, or, whenever possible, feeling sand between my toes as I watch waves curl and break upon the shore.”

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Maddie has long used her love of creative writing and self-taught design skills to bring marketing campaigns to life for nonprofits, small businesses, and more. She leverages her creativity, education in family, youth, and community science and privilege as a white, cisgender, non-Disabled woman to amplify voices and causes across the platforms she manages. In addition to her work in marketing and social media, Maddie is a mom, yoga teacher, and birth worker in training passionate about holistic wellbeing, maternal health, and creating accessible and equitable wellness spaces for all— including those online.
Maddie received her Bachelor’s degree in Family, Youth, and Community Science from the University of Florida in 2019. From 2018-2021, she served as a board member and marketing director for YogaLoka, a nonprofit that bridges community through yoga and creates access to holistic health services among populations marginalized due to race, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.

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Liz Getman, she/her, has 15+ years in digital marketing, social media strategy, community building, and entrepreneurship. Founder and CEO of Rise Collective, a marketing agency for change, Liz does her best to use her privilege and varying identities to further collective liberation both online and off.
Liz studied Journalism, Spanish, and Italian at Ithaca College and received a master's degree in Latin American Studies with specializations in gender and development from the University of Florida. She is passionate about mentoring entrepreneurs, burgeoning activists, and marketing professionals and enjoys leading trainings and workshops about authentic storytelling, inclusive language, and equitable marketing.
Liz is proud to serve on the Advisory Council of Evermore, a nonprofit that advocates for better bereavement care in the U.S., and as a member of Social Allies, a community of creators and marketing professionals that helps progressive organizations collaborate and amplify messaging and content. She's been featured in various publications, including Yoga Journal, and has given talks with such institutions as the Center for Digital Strategy.

In her free time, she enjoys travel, spending time in nature, yoga and meditation, and radical rest. Learn more about her at LizGetman.com.

Our advisors

Our advisory team is transforming the fields of business, media, equity, and education. All are former clients, collaborators, and/or friends who believe in the power of the collective. We are grateful for their guidance and support.