Operationalizing post-capitalist values to conjure a more caring, collaborative, and creative future.
“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.”
ASSATA SHAKUR
RENEE BARRETO
Renee Barreto is a cultural worker, embodied operations strategist, and reinvention practitioner. Weaving a decade of experience in operations and strategic development, she partners with organizations to cultivate ways of work that are sustainable, life-giving, and resilient amid change and chaos.
A pattern-finder and sequence-shaper, Renee facilitates processes and provides management capacity to help organizations bridge the gap between aspirations (what you say you’re about) and actions (what you’re actually about).
Her years of immersive work across corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors have shaped a skill set rooted in real challenges and successes, earning her a reputation for creating systems and standards that enhance organizational vitality.
Guided by Audre Lorde’s fundamental question, 'Who are you, and how are you using the powers of that self in the service of what you believe?' Renee’s commitment to love, care, and liberation is woven into the fabric of her being and shines through in every aspect of her work.
A proud aunt, amateur analog collagist, Rubik's cube enthusiast, playlist curator, partner, friend, and neighbor, Renee makes her home in Brooklyn, New York.
“... we must also care promiscuously. In advocating for promiscuous care, we do not mean caring casually or indifferently. It is neoliberal capitalist care that remains detached, both casual and indifferent, with disastrous consequences. For us, promiscuous care is an ethic that proliferates outwards to redefine caring relations from the most intimate to the most distant. It means caring more and in ways that remain experimental and extensive by current standards. We have relied upon “the market” and “the family” to provide too many of our caring needs for too long. We need to create a more capacious notion of care.”
THE CARE MANIFESTO
