MEET THE FOUNDERS
The Roller Derby Collective was created from a shared love of roller derby, thoughtful education, and the belief that people thrive when they’re given context, collaboration, and support, not just instruction.
We’re Marc (Toxic Marcotic) and Callie (Callegory): longtime members of the roller derby community with experience spanning officiating, competitive play, coaching, leadership, education, tournament planning, and transformational work. Together, we bring both strategic and emotionally intelligent approaches to the sport we love.
After teaching together at RollerCon and working with various leagues, officials, skaters, and leadership teams across many different spaces within derby, we kept noticing the same thing:
People were passionate.
People cared deeply.
People wanted to contribute.
But many were also overwhelmed, isolated, burnt out, or struggling to find sustainable ways to grow into leadership, communication, and collaboration within their leagues.
Too often, people are taught what to do without being given the larger context about why and how things fit together. In a sport as dynamic and interconnected as roller derby, missing these pieces can create confusion, frustration, disconnection, misunderstandings, and unnecessary pressure, especially within a volunteer-driven community.
As neurodivergent educators, coaches, and leaders ourselves, we deeply value pattern recognition, systems thinking, communication, and comprehension. We believe people feel more empowered, confident, and capable when they understand how the pieces fit together, both within gameplay, facilitation, and community dynamics.
That philosophy shapes everything we do.
Why we do this work
The Roller Derby Collective is dedicated to helping officials, skaters, coaches, and leagues build stronger, more collaborative roller derby communities through education, communication, and shared awareness.
We believe the way we learn, lead, and work together directly impacts both gameplay and community culture. Through clinics, conversations, leadership development, and collaborative learning experiences, we aim to create more thoughtful, sustainable, and connected spaces within the sport we love.
Our approach combines:
advanced gameplay understanding
collective officiating philosophy
practical leadership tools
emotionally intelligent communication
collaborative systems thinking
embodied awareness & mindset work
actionable takeaways people can apply immediately within their roles & league
Whether we’re teaching officiating concepts, coaching gameplay strategy, facilitating leadership conversations, or helping people approach derby with greater awareness and confidence, our goal is always the same:
To help people feel more connected, more empowered, less alone, and more capable of participating in the kind of derby culture many of us came here searching for in the first place.
Because better communication creates better collaboration.
Shared awareness creates better derby.
And healthier systems create more sustainable communities, both on and off the track.