Our Team

  • Mordecai Cargill (he/him)

    Co-Founder and Creative Officer
    ThirdSpace Action Lab

  • India Pierre-Ingram (she/her)

    Chocolate City Cleveland Project Manager
    ThirdSpace Action Lab

  • Jamila “Mila” Taffe (she/her)

    Summer on the Cuyahoga Chocolate City Cleveland, Intern Summer 2023
    ThirdSpace Action Lab

Elders + Community + Ancestors

Little Giant Creative Agency

Cory United Methodist Church

Center for Public History + Digital Humanities
at Cleveland State University

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park

United Black Fund

Partners

Funders

ThirdSpace Action Lab

ThirdSpace Action Lab (TSAL) was created to disrupt the vicious cycle of disinvestment + displacement that negatively impacts the vitality of low-income communities of color. We are a grassroots solutions studio dedicated to prototyping creative, place-based solutions to complex socio-economic problems. We are institutional + community organizers, turning multidisciplinary research into evidence-based strategies; and activating “third places” to co-create more liberated spaces for people of color.

TSAL is a Black-owned, Black woman-led small business based in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood.