We support workers navigating unsafe or exploitative conditions to leave together — not alone — through peer accompaniment, crisis support, and collective organizing.
Alongside this, we provide healing-centered training, trauma-informed care, and community wellness services that support the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of our communities and the families of the workers we support.
The Exit Collective: Our urgent and time-sensitive organizing campaign
Organizing for Liberation
The Exit Collective brings workers together to leave harmful workplaces—not alone, but together.
We organize Black, Indigenous, and other workers of color who are navigating burnout, discrimination, retaliation, and unsafe conditions. This work is grounded in a simple truth: many people know they need to leave, but doing it alone can mean risking income, housing, and stability.
So we don’t leave alone.
Workers are paired with trained companions—people who have moved through this process themselves. It’s a relationship of trust and support, something like a doula for leaving exploitation and stepping into something new.
What Is The Exit Collective?
The Exit Collective is an organizing space where workers build power together through:
- Community outreach and connection
Reaching people through trusted networks and breaking isolation
- Popular education
Learning labor history, rights, and organizing strategies together
- Peer leadership (companion model)
Workers supporting workers through real transitions
- Collective decision-making
Deciding together what we build, how we govern, and what we prioritize
- Direct action
Organizing collective exits and creating alternatives to employer dependency
- Connection to worker-controlled infrastructure
Linking to cooperative models like Dandelion Medicine Liberation
Who We Organize
We organize Black, Indigenous, and BIPOC folx — especially those who are:
- women, gender-expansive, LGBTQIA+
- disabled or living with chronic health conditions
- migrants, refugees, or undocumented
- working class and economically vulnerable
Across sectors where traditional protections often don’t reach:
- small businesses (especially under 15 employees)
- gig and freelance work
- domestic and care work
- nonprofits and social justice organizations
- service, education, and healthcare sectors
We work with people who are experiencing harm at work and are looking for ways to leave that do not depend on employer cooperation or traditional union structures.
Our Organizing Foundation
This work is built on more than a decade of organizing through Sweet Livity (2012–2024), where we developed and tested many of the practices that now shape The Exit Collective.
Over the years, we have:
- Organized alongside 400+ organizations and trained over 2,000 leaders across 45 states
- Built a sustainable model that generated $2.7M in revenue while achieving B Corporation certification
- Received the Hal Taussig Award (2021), B Corp’s highest recognition for equity work
- Been featured in Forbes (2020) for our Restorative HR approach—supporting workers to organize for real workplace changes, including paid self-care time, pay equity, and more shared power
- Mobilized over $600,000 in COVID relief to support Black, Indigenous, and POC-led organizations
- Supported 30+ workers to exit harmful employment and build new, sustainable pathways (2011–2025)
The Exit Collective builds on this foundation—taking what we’ve learned and moving it into a more explicit, collective approach to worker liberation. This is not new work—it is a deepening of what we have been practicing for years.
These amazing organizers over the years laid the foundation for this work.
How Workers Get Involved
The Exit Collective brings workers together in small cohorts—people moving through similar experiences, organizing side by side.
In this space, you won’t be doing this alone.
Participants are supported through:
- Companion relationships
Support from workers who have already moved through their own exit process
- Access to worker-controlled infrastructure
Connection to Dandelion Medicine Liberation’s cooperative model
- Leadership and resilience support
Coaching and skill-building to navigate transition and next steps
- Healing justice support
Care practices woven throughout the organizing process
- Shared decision-making
Participants shape how the work unfolds together
- Connection to a broader network
Relationships with 400+ organizations and 2,000+ leaders across the countryThe Exit Collective organizes workers through cohor
If this speaks to you, we invite you to reach out and connect.
Many people come to this work carrying burnout, harm, or uncertainty—and also a desire for something different. You don’t have to have it all figured out to begin.
Reach out to connect → [email protected]
This is what we are building together.
Get in Touch
Ready to Organize?
If you are navigating harm at work and thinking about what it would mean to leave—you don’t have to figure it out alone.
We are connecting with workers who are ready to explore what collective exit could look like, and to build something different together.
Reach out to learn more about:
- how The Exit Collective works
- companion support from workers who have already made this transition
- connecting to worker-controlled cooperatives
- organizing alongside others facing similar conditions
- building sustainable alternatives to exploitation
Email: [email protected]
Stay Connected
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JoyJuice Club organizes Indigenous and Black workers to exit harmful workplaces and build pathways rooted in collective care and self-determination.