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Jo Lum is a Professional Certified Coach, fundraiser, organizer, and white Jewish queer inheritor and griever. They are deeply passionate about returning wealth to communities, building the solidarity economy, and funding the revolution! Jo’s wealth was accumulated by their maternal grandfather, who was an early employee at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Jo is a grief warrior, inheriting the majority of their wealth after the death of their beloved queer uncle, Charles Lum, in 2021. Jo worked as a major gift fundraiser for five years before moving to coaching full-time in 2019. In their career, Jo has raised millions of dollars for several organizations and movements for justice and supported countless other organizers, fundraisers, artists, and trans folx to raise money. Jo holds a Bachelor of Arts from Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts and an Associate of Applied Science in American Sign Language Interpreting from Saint Paul Community and Technical College. Jo is the founder of the non-profit Friends of Camp Little Notch, an organization that owns and operates a summer camp in the southern Adirondacks. Importantly, Jo is a ceramic artist whose greatest joy is making Jewish ritual objects. For fun, Jo likes jumping on trampolines and wandering through the forests of southern Vermont with their dog Wrigley.