Vic Gómez Betancourt (they/them) is a fundraiser extraordinaire who leverages 20 years of resource mobilization at the grassroots level and trust building with both state and national funding partners to secure multi-year investments for small to medium-size, social-justice organizational budgets. They work collaboratively and with a shared leadership approach that centers interdependence, appreciative inquiry, and collective healing. In May 2022, Vic joined Transformative Leadership for Change as Resource Strategist and is focused on cultivating financial abundance and sustainability.
Vic’s grassroots leadership includes professional, volunteer, and board roles with efforts focusing on worker’s rights, immigrant rights, human rights, education, and reproductive justice at organizations like ACT for Women and Girls, COLOR, Chinook Fund, Coalition Against Global Genocide, El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores, Good Business Colorado, Rights for All People / Derechos Para Todos, Cultivando, Tewa Women United, Women’s Voices for the Earth. Vic has a bachelor’s in anthropology from the University of Colorado Denver and a master’s in nonprofit management from Regis University, is a Transformative Leadership for Change 2019 fellow, a 2015 Regis University Affiliate Faculty, and a 2014 Mayoral Appointee for the Denver Women’s Commission. Vic also publicly advocates for health equity as a recognized opinion leader and published author in the reproductive justice space.
As a political creative, gender migrant, crip immigrant, and cuir feminista uplifting the struggles of the Caribbean diaspora, Vic is an active storyteller, spoken word performer, and visual artist committed to stigma busting.