Interim Director of Sustainability
She/her
Morgan is an organizer of people, curator of resources, and lover of details.
Morgan Dawson is from Southern California, but from the age of 14 until she went off to college she lived in Houston, Texas. She thrived with the support of the web of friends and neighbors her mom built and her access to programs like YMCA aftercare and the Dream Center. In Texas, the school system provided students with a late bus, so that all students could participate in after-school activities and still have a safe ride home. It was through the after school bus program and other examples of community care that Morgan realized how small changes could change the course of someone’s life.
After truly learning what philanthropy was, Morgan knew she could do it better.
Most recently as Co-CEO at Threshold Philanthropy, Morgan is guided by her lived experience. She has a first hand experience with bias, walking into rooms where everyone assumes she is not meant to be there. She wants to change the experience for other Black women as well as her own. She wants to make space for the people that this country fails. Her goal is not simply to make philanthropy better, but to create communities that are welcoming and fruitful for everyone. She wants us to be better neighbors. This is what drives her.
Morgan is who she is only because the fierce women in her life, starting with her mother, her nana, and Granny Dawson, have believed in her and told her she would do great things. “People have just always poured into me”–and that’s what she hopes to do for others.