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Alphabet Alliance of Color (AAoC)

Website:

alphabetalliance.org/
Type:

LGBTQ+ Project
Location:

Seattle, Washington

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The Alphabet Alliance of Color (AAoC) is a left-of-center Seattle, Washington-based organization that supports queer, transgender, and Black and indigenous people of color (QTBIPOC) in the Seattle and Puget Sound areas by offering financial support, mutual aid, and legal-rights education. The organization is fiscally sponsored by the left-of-center group Rooted in Vibrant Communities (RVC). 1  2

Background

Alphabet Alliance of Color (AAoC) was founded in 2017 to support queer, transgender, and Black and indigenous people of color (QTBIPOC) in the Seattle/Puget Sound area of Washington state and is as an organizing alliance emphasizing mutual aid and transformative justice. 1  3

The alliance consists of 16 member organizations including, API Chaya, Gathering in This Place, LuluNation, Parisol, QPOCA, QTPOC Birthwerq Project, Queer the Land, Seattle LGBTQ Commission, Somos Seattle, Transform Culture (a project of the left-wing Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ)), the Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, UTOPIA Washington, and VietQ. 4

Fiscal Sponsor

Alphabet Alliance of Color is fiscally and operationally sponsored by Rooted in Vibrant Communities (RVC) of Seattle and AAoC’s donation page states that donations be addressed to “RVC Seattle dba as Alphabet Alliance of Color.” RVC is a promoter of social equal outcomes, trains leaders of color, and fosters collaboration among diverse communities through fiscally and operationally sponsored organizations. 5  2

RVC-sponsored organizations include All Girl Everything, ALA Garifuna Women, Creative Justice, Collective Justice, the Good Foot Arts Collective, Mujer Al Volante, First Five Years & Beyond, Restorative Community Pathways, Renton Innovation Zone Partnership, Skyway Coalition, Somos Seattle, Surge Reproductive Justice, Washington Building Leaders of Change (WA-BLOC), and Youth Speaks Seattle. 6  7

In its 2023-2024 fiscal year, Rooted in Vibrant Communities reported $8,271,799 in expenses for various fiscally sponsored organizations including AAoC. 8 RVC Seattle reported 66.66% ($7,569,508) of its $11,354,190 revenue derived government grants on its 2023-2024 tax return. 9

Programs

Alphabet Alliance of Color operates the Community Care Fund that provides financial assistance for transportation, medical and mental health care, food, housing, moving fees, and funeral costs for queer, trans, intersex, Black, indigenous, people of color (QTBIPOC) people. 10

The organization’s Alphabet Institute provides a mentorship program to develop leadership skills in QTBIPOC persons. 11

AAoC promoted a conference call titled “Policy, Practice Space, Moving Out: QTBIPOC Leaving the Country” that presented the state and federal laws that hinder living in the United States and the QTBIPOC people’s ability to leave the country in a Facebook post from November 2025. 12

Alphabet Alliance of Color along with Lavender Rights Project and Seattle’s LGBTQ Center posted on Instagram an event to honor Jonny Adamow, who was murdered in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on December 31, 2024. Adamow was described as a biracial Dominican, nonbinary, queer goddess born in Queens, New York. The Instagram post called for the “2SLGBTQIA+ community of Seattle” to demonstrate and “show up for the murder of one of our own, in our streets.” 13

The organization along with Elevate Black Wellness, and Queer the Land sponsored a health fair related to COVID-19 awareness and safety on May 4, 2024. 12

Related Organizations

The resources page at TransLifeline.org, a provider of connections, support and resources for those “divested from police,” lists Alphabet Alliance of Color, Creative Interventions, Crip Justice, Interrupting Criminalization, Stonewall Youth, Transformative Justice Project of Illinois, TransformHarm.org, and Transforming Hearts Collective as sources of support for transgender individuals. 14

Alphabet Alliance of Color is listed as a resource by Gender Justice League, a group that seeks social, economic and racial equal outcomes, along with multiple other trans, Black, sex worker, healthcare, legal assistance, and Asian focused groups. 15

People

Karissa Masciel, who has expressed “dreams of life free of capitalism and colonialism,” and Brianna Jones are co-executive directors of Alphabet Alliance of Color. According to a job posting on Facebook from April 2024, co-directors are paid $85,000 per year plus benefits. 3  10  12

References

  1. Alphabet Alliance of Color. Accessed December 15, 2025. http://www.alphabetalliance.org/. 
  2. “Donate to RVC Seattle DBA Alphabet Alliance of Color.” Digital Wallets, Money Management, and More. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3G6QQ4QB7Q2TA.
  3. Kawai, Aimie. “Org Spotlight: Alphabet Alliance of Color (AAOC).” Communities Rise, September 28, 2022. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://communities-rise.org/news/org-spotlight-alphabet-alliance-of-color-aaoc/.
  4. “Alliance Members.” Alphabet Alliance of Color. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://alphabetalliance.org/alliance-members.
  5. “RVC Seattle” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. Form 990. 2023. Part I, Line 1.
  6. “990 Finder.” Candid. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://app.candid.org/profile/9477366/rvc-seattle-47-4257834?activeTab=7.
  7. “RVC’s Partner Organizations.” RVC Seattle, November 11, 2025. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://rvcseattle.org/partners/.
  8. “RVC Seattle” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. Form 990. 2023. Part III, Line 4c. 
  9. “RVC Seattle” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. Form 990. 2023. Part VIII, Lines 1e, 1h.
  10. “Meet Our Team.” Alphabet Alliance of Color. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://alphabetalliance.org/meet-our-team.
  11. “Leadership Institute.” Alphabet Alliance of Color. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://alphabetalliance.org/leadership-institute.
  12. “Alphabet Alliance of Color – AAOC: Seattle Wa.” Facebook. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://www.facebook.com/AlphabetAllianceofColor/.
  13. “Instagram Post.” Alphabet Alliance of Color , January 9, 2025. https://www.instagram.com/p/DEmCqATxHjg/?hl=en.
  14. “Resources.” Transformative Justice Archives – Trans Lifeline. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://translifeline.org/resource_category/transformative-justice/.
  15. “Resources Archives.” Gender Justice League. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://www.genderjusticeleague.org/category/resources/.
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