Studio Reciprocity collaborates with artists, organizations, and nonprofits to re-imagine their impact and the ways their work is funded. 

Meet the Team

  • Co-Founder

    Kortney Morrow is an arts administrator who has funded and fueled the advancement of the 826 National Network for the past eight years. During her time with the network, she helped to raise over $2 million dollars in funding, which allowed thousands of young people to publish their creative writing alongside critically-acclaimed authors like Kiese Laymon and Jason Reynolds. When she’s not working to raise funds for emerging artists across the nation, you can find her on the playground with her nieces or at her kitchen table writing her own books.

  • Co-Founder

    Brooke Pickett is a nonprofit leader with a history of growing organizations that are mission-driven and human-centered. With over 15 years of experience in the arts, education, and business sectors she helps teams get curious, dream big, and set audacious goals. Most recently she led initiatives that increase access to writing and publishing opportunities for young people in New Orleans. Between 2019-2022 she helped raise $1.5M to expand those programs. Brooke is also a mom, artist, and gardener.

Our Pillars

We work with trailblazing organizations that are actively working towards liberation and a way of operating that we’ve all been told does not exist.

Think collectives, co-leadership, consensus-based decisions, full-staff sabbaticals, giving policies, etc.

We lean into tension.

Studio Reciprocity will help you walk through the threshold of challenging conversations. What’s on the other side is a robust and nuanced strategy.

We believe in the power of impact networks.

The work of liberation is complex and requires partnerships. We situate our clients’ work inside a contemporary landscape and a historical continuum, exploring similar organizations to understand our client’s potential impact.

We don’t create plans that sit on shelves or make the process confusing.

Our work is action-oriented and accessible. We cut off all the jargon and ask simple, generative questions that get us to the heart of strategy.

Our Story

Brooke and Kortney crossed paths at a small arts organization in New Orleans. In just two years, they more than doubled the budget and staff.

It wasn’t easy—between a global pandemic and a local Hurricane, most organizations hunkered down into survival mode. As creatives—they knew they needed to respond to a challenging landscape with a different mindset. They used their imaginations to dream up a strategic plan. Through a series of creative exercises, they envisioned the organization and its services thriving, not only in a challenging moment but for years to come.

Of course, this scaling up caused some questions. Why were so many nonprofits and artists across New Orleans bogged down by operations, funding, and staffing challenges? It seemed as if their big dreams on how to shift inequitable systems were being placed on hold.

Through this, Studio Reciprocity was built. Studio Reciprocity partners with nonprofits, artists, and collectives to sharpen their fundraising, operations, and staffing practices, so that they can dream big and adequately fuel their vision of social change.