Biz Ghormley

Biz Ghormley (she/they) is dedicated to justice and transformation. At CHANGE Philanthropy, she anchors the biannual Unity Summit, operations for CHANGE as an organization, and the coalition-wide Operations Working Group — a community of practice for HR, finance, and admin leaders from all CHANGE partner organizations. Before CHANGE, Biz led work weaving story, data, and design to build community and systems for a variety of social change and social support organizations like Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), Digital Democracy, Alliance for Positive Change, the Refresh Radio Show, and EAT/Stockholm Food Forum. Biz began her career with a decade of frontline justice work as a bilingual investigator for legal organizations including Bronx Defenders, Innocence Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and with various federal and state level criminal defense teams and remains dedicated to abolition through community work as a co-leader of SURJ B'ham in Birmingham, AL.

In both career and life, Biz is committed to embodied practices, intersectionality, and right relationship. As a white person, they strive to dismantle white supremacy and address and repair its harm. Biz is a devoted student of group dynamics and organizational development, emergent strategy, praxis of liberation, coaching practices, and facilitation. They strive to co-create and hold spaces that allow groups to be more than the sum of their parts. They are humbled by gardening and love fractals, cooking, and books.