About our Work

  • Culturally rooted, healthy, and thriving communities.

  • To enhance our communities’ quality of life and contribute to their healing by engaging them in cultural practices, traditions, and artistic expressions in order to restore the dignity communities of color are innately born with.

Our Values

  • We root ourselves and our work in the wisdom embedded in our ancestral cultural practices and rituals.

    We intend to be a vessel of cultural wisdom through education, art, and culture for the community to access and utilize it to shape the world they want to see.

  • We acknowledge the consequences of the historical oppression on our community.

    We intend to tend to the harm by actively engaging in collective and individual healing and wellness practices.

  • We reaffirm the interconnection and interdependence of our relationships with all living things and our commitment to children and families.

    We intend to fortify our collective power and solidarity through weaving our shared experiences and struggles.

  • We honor the legacy of our people’s spirit.

    We intend to ensure that our past, present, and future narratives are reflected with dignity and respect.

  • We commit to the path of seeking and working towards harmony and equilibrium.

    We intend to remember our inner potential to self-determine and create our just reality.

How we do it

    • Traditional music workshops

    • Community based art workshops

    • Public art exhibitions

    • Live music events and concerts

    • Panel discussions and speakers

    • Indigenous ceremony

    • Early childhood & PK-8 Spanish immersion programs

    • Professional development for educators

    • Afterschool programming at local elementary schools

    • Curriculum creation

    • HS Youth Internship program

    • Indigenous language classes

    • Resource book library

    • Healing circles

    • Holistic and collective approach to healing

    • Indigenous medicine and methodology

    • Reintegration of spiritual practices in health

    • Land acquisition

    • Property restoration and activation

    • Local and solidarity economy practice

    • Community wealth building

    • Preservation of historical memory and narrative

    • Resource sharing and consulting

Learn about our specific programs here

Outcomes

  • People have a secure cultural identity rooted in dignity for themselves and all living things.

  • People embody a commitment to engaging in the practice of decolonial ways of being and thinking, and their preservation.

  • People are connected to themselves, their community, and the cosmos.

  • People continue to develop critical consciousness for deconstructing the systems that harm their quality of life and have tools for constructing the world we wish to see.