Our Team
We believe in the healing power of shared leadership, and we proudly have two CEOs.
Morgan Dawson
(she/her)
Co-CEO
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Meet Morgan
Better is possible — there’s a better way to love each other and care for each other that is neither impossible or impractical. If we orient people around the fact that better is possible, the response to, “That’s not how it works”, will become, “Why not?” I built Threshold to be a place where we say yes more than no and embrace the tough, the awkward, the unconventional, and collectively change the way we are in relationship with one another. Together we examine the nuance that typically gets lost in translation through traditional philanthropy. I’ve always wanted to change the world and while I can’t fix everything, I can create a space where people have choices, where there can be healing for myself and others. When I grow up, I want to explore joy, pleasure, and being a little bit selfish; when I grow up, I want to be healed. I am here because of my own hard work and the unrest of my ancestors. I am a leader, and we are ready.
Metasabia Rigby
(she/her)
Resident Storyteller
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Meet Metasabia
I come from a land of scribes and storytellers. Created from my mother’s songs, my grandfather’s prayers, and the magic of the Blue Nile. My first languages were poetry, prayer, and divination. I moved to a culture that values purity/whiteness, linearity, individualism, perfection, and competition. Writing protected my soul; it is my sanctuary and medicine. Threshold embraced all 5 feet, raised by the world, tender soul, non-linear me, and invited me to write in the imagination and energy of liberation. This team centers and practices healing, holistic learning, creativity, and relationships. I’m working with Threshold, and other values-aligned groups, to create the landscapes necessary for repair and replenishment so that when I grow up, we are all live easeful and loving lives.
Lindsay Hill
(she/her)
Co-CEO
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Meet Lindsay
I built Threshold to be a space where I could fully flourish witout having to question my lived experience, conform to white-supremacy culture, or to package myself and my ideas in more palatable ways; where Black women can authentically lead and follow our unique visions. Most importantly, Threshold is a place where BIPOC people don’t have to die in order to transform the world. So when I grow up I don’t just want to survive. I want to thrive. For myself, for my children, for my children’s children. I want to be in community — to continue to dream and take action with others in whatever way I can for as long as I can. I want to be truly free. This is my life’s work.
Liz Rideau
(she/her)
Operations Manager
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Meet Liz
I joined Threshold Philanthropy to cultivate connection, collaboration and collective healing within Black and Indigenous communities that will echo across generations. I am a proud Kaigani Haida and Filipinx American woman born-and-raised in the diversity and beauty of the Pacific Northwest. I integrate Native values and cultural wisdom into my work and provide creative, strategic, and sustainable solutions to professional challenges. I am honored to be in kinship with these bright, strong, and brilliant women as we lock arms in solidarity and engage, grow, and heal using bravery, honesty, laughter, and love. I am here to make my ancestors and all my relations proud!
Cristina Johnson
(she/her)
Director of Ops
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Meet Cristina
I came to Threshold Philanthropy to stand beside and build with other Black women. I don’t seek the spotlight — throughout the ages Black women seldom have. But there is value in who we are, value in what we do and how we do it. After years of witnessing performative gestures and internalizing the traumatic reality of the ‘American Dream,’ I was tired of people talking the talk but not walking the walk. An evolving work-in-progress, I bring my nurturing heart and caregiving nature to the Threshold team. My love language is supporting others, and I am bringing that into Threshold by building a co-creative environment where the community can feel liberated, healed, and supported. I feel at home around lots of laughter, a warm-hearted atmosphere (with touch of shade), within an environment where vulnerable moments are not only accepted but encouraged and valued. When I grow up, I want people to see, respect, and appreciate the world in its multiracial, multicultural entirety — and I am going to do my best to make that happen. That’s my promise.
Beth McCaw
(she/her)
Founding Funder
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Meet Beth
My husband and I have a long history of giving in our communities. I’m originally from Eastern North Carolina, and Washington state has been home since 1998. It’s here that I had transformative experiences on the Board of Directors of YWCA of Seattle/King County/Snohomish County and YWCA USA, as President & CEO of Washington Women’s Foundation, and also as a member of the Sisterhood, a community of seven white women and six Black women who are living into what it means to deeply reckon with white supremacy and the wealth gap. As part of the Sisterhood, I actively work to build intergenerational wealth in Black families and at Threshold, through relationship-building and the return of resources. I’m exploring how to promote holistic community care, helping people and communities heal and build capacity, agency, and leadership.