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i pursue cultural change by facilitating access to collective care, safety, and healing within our present movements and for our future generations. i do so through fostering transformative artistic experiences and accountable design processes in community. i also work alongside organizations whose missions align with my vision.
i collaborate with communities and organizations who are dedicated to co-creating a just future. i believe this collective effort can be made possible through collective imagination and a spirit of cultural change. my collaborators understand how solidarity across struggle, culture bearing, and honoring the land (and its labor) are inextricably intertwined with community healing and transformation.
i believe it’s important to consider how we might be in right relationship with the land and each other in order to work together in meaningful ways. In my experience, cultivating trust is key to facilitating transformative processes. Trust, once earned, cultivates a sense of safety, deepens connection, and adds value to the work people do together in balance with all of our relations.
We must consider the impact of the stories we tell while bearing and consuming culture. When engaging with community and nature, i invite us to think about who might be excluded from the narratives we construct and who continues to benefit. Asking these questions is integral to culturally responsible work. This requires seeking and telling the whole truth, as well as uplifting suppressed perspectives and cultural ways of knowing.
my approach to working in community and nature is deliberate with practices and processes designed to reduce needless risk and instances of harm. We inhabit a brutal society and i believe it is crucial to develop an inviting culture of consent and care when choosing to work with each other and the land. We must affirm the diverse, dynamic experiences and ways of being we embody so that we can collaborate with a decreased risk of harm and an aspiration of thrival.
