Collectively, we have over 30 years of experience with on-the-ground collaboration building and working with individuals on their collaborative leadership skills. We have worked together in partnering organizations for 15 years, supporting policy, systems and environmental change in communities and convening and facilitating collaborative groups. Our love for working alongside community members to make positive lasting change compelled us to launch Liminal Collaboration and support communities across the Southeast in their efforts to create transformation through cross-sector collaboration.
We have a deep understanding of what it takes to create social change, bringing together and maintaining an active group of residents, professionals and key decision makers to advance policies and programs that help all people thrive.
Annie Martinie, MPA
Annie Martinie is a cofounder of Liminal Collaboration. Annie focuses on helping communities embrace a new vision of leadership - one that brings diverse groups of people together to build trust, learn together, heal divisions, create shared goals, and collectively address issues that concern them. After years of convening and facilitating cross-sector collaboration, and creating and implementing robust collaborative leadership opportunities, Annie continues to work in partnership with many across the Southeast US to support collaborative groups and accelerate community change. Prior to this role, Annie spent nine years at the Danville Regional Foundation, most recently as a senior program officer and director of collaboration, leading and implementing the Foundation’s strategy to help more people engage in the region’s transformation.
Tim Schwantes, MPH, MSW
Tim is a cofounder of Liminal Collaboration. Tim is committed to a learning journey that is centered in equity and community-led processes. Tim prioritizes connecting people in collaboration across sectors, backgrounds, and geographies and facilitating conversations in service of positive community change. He has had the privilege of working and growing alongside funders, local leaders, and other partners in the healthy community field to create more fair systems. He focuses on individual-, organizational- and systems-level approaches and examples to better understand and help participants reflect how to operationalize DEI concepts. Tim worked at Healthy Places by Design for 15 years supporting community-led environmental, policy and systems changes at the national, state, and regional levels.