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Black Liberation Lab came together when a group of black folk noticed that white supremacy, patriarchy, and the oppressions of capitalism had penetrated even our most eminent anti-racist organizations. We are Designers, Historians, Ethicists, Philosophers, Sociologists; Artists, Musicians, Poets, Storytellers; Disruptors, Experimenters, First Responders, Healers, Visionaries. We brought together decades worth of experience as social and political activists, community organizers, and educators; queer, cis, men, women, mixed, and interracial folk. Our experiences, our inclinations and our differing methods coalesced around a common aspiration: to see past the frameworks that white supremacy constructed for how to lead, how to live, how to work, how to be in community to a true liberation for ALL Black people.

CONNECT develops unique programs and innovative ways to prevent domestic violence and promote gender justice. Our goal is to transform the culture of violence and to build the capacity of communities to respond to the complex needs of survivors and their families.

Matahari Women Workers’ Center / Centro de Mujeres Trabajadoras de Matahari (“Matahari”) is a membership-based social justice organization. We organize and develop the leadership of immigrant womxn and womxn of color working in low wage sectors to build power and create systematic change to end gender violence and exploitation.

Men As Peacemakers (MAP) is building safe communities through programs that address and undermine the root causes of violence against women and children including sexism, male dominance, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. MAP is at the forefront of a movement to promote equality and end violence against women and children. MAP engages individuals and communities in Minnesota and beyond, by mobilizing existing community resources and developing innovative primary prevention and restorative justice strategies that are proven to significantly reduce and repair the harm caused by men. 

Orange County Civic Engagement Table (OCCET) is a progressive AAPI-Latinx-Labor-Environmental Justice Alliance that seeks to build progressive transformation of our region. The eight organizations that anchor OCCET serve the emerging majority of the county – low-income, immigrant, Latinx and Asian American communities that work across issues of immigrant, economic, and racial justice.

Oregon Futures Lab (OFL) and its partners uplift leaders of color to enter public office and govern effectively. We find leaders deeply committed to community – people who understand root causes and offer solutions. People who are best positioned to help solve issues facing their communities because they’ve lived through them, too. We bring these leaders together and train them in electoral organizing, transformative governance, and movement-building. Then, those leaders pass legislation that works for everyone to thrive, be safe, and live their fullest lives. 

PODER of Idaho is a collective of undocumented and Latinx organizers in Southwest Idaho that raises consciousness, organizes, and builds power in Latinx communities through connection to culture, community building, and an intersectional approach to social justice. PODER builds the leadership of young Latinx and immigrant organizers and organizes communities in rural areas. We provide workshops in schools and universities on key issues affecting the community and participate in civil disobedience and office takeovers in D.C.

Food Culture Collective (formerly Real Food Real Stories), dares to dream of a future where our economies and culture are shaped by care for the land, waters and people to which we belong. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, FCC is an arts-integrated culture change organization cultivating place-based community across geographies through storytelling, media arts, and cultural strategy initiatives. Food Culture Collaborative is working to democratize food culture to feed our collective healing & transformation. Our programs seek to challenge who gets to shape food culture, how, and to what end, by:

• Growing power among food changemakers,
• Cultivating foodshed* communities, and
• Nourishing narratives for healing & transformation

* We define foodshed to encompass the full web of relationships that shape a local community’s connection to their food.

Resonance Network is a network of over 3,000 Black, Indigenous, immigrant, women, femmes, trans, and two-spirit people and their co-conspirators who are building a world beyond violence–a world rooted in mutual care, where all people live in dignity, and all beings can thrive. We are healers, leaders, artists, survivors, and storytellers creating visionary spaces to access creativity and radical imagination, build deep relationship, and practice what it means to thrive. In a dominant culture world of extractiveness and harm toward our bodies and spirits, the expansiveness and care that shapes Resonance culture is an invitation to be present and whole. It is in this kind of beloved community that a world beyond violence can take root.

Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence seeks a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive.  The Vermont Network is Vermont’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence. The Network is a statewide non-profit 501c3 membership organization which was founded in 1986. Our members are 15 independent, non-profit organizations which provide domestic and sexual violence advocacy to survivors of violence in Vermont. 

Alliance to Reclaim our Schools (AROS) is an unprecedented alliance of parent, youth, community and labor organizations that together represent over 7 million people nationwide. We are fighting to reclaim the promise of public education as our nation’s gateway to a strong democracy and racial and economic justice. AROS believes that the best way to ensure each and every child has the opportunity to pursue a rich and productive life is through a system of publicly funded, equitable and democratically controlled public schools. After years of division, AROS is uniting parents, youth, teachers and unions to drive the transformation of public education, shift the public debate and build a national movement for equity and opportunity for all.

Black Liberation Lab came together when a group of black folk noticed that white supremacy, patriarchy, and the oppressions of capitalism had penetrated even our most eminent anti-racist organizations. We are Designers, Historians, Ethicists, Philosophers, Sociologists; Artists, Musicians, Poets, Storytellers; Disruptors, Experimenters, First Responders, Healers, Visionaries. We brought together decades worth of experience as social and political activists, community organizers, and educators; queer, cis, men, women, mixed, and interracial folk. Our experiences, our inclinations and our differing methods coalesced around a common aspiration: to see past the frameworks that white supremacy constructed for how to lead, how to live, how to work, how to be in community to a true liberation for ALL Black people.

The Dharma Attractor Relational Field is a travelling retreat centre hosting a self-evolving learning context. The centre of our inquiry revolves around co-participating in the question: What does it look and feel like to come more deeply into contact with one another, ourselves, our ecosystems and with reality. Dharma means many things; path, teaching, cosmic law and order. The DARF is a co-created context that roots itself in welcoming and a meeting of whatever arises, radiating love and nourishment, enabling the highest quality of our collective and individual medicine to flourish.

Food Culture Collective (formerly Real Food Real Stories) dares to dream of a future where our economies and culture are shaped by care for the land, waters and people to which we belong. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, RFRS is an arts-integrated culture change organization cultivating place-based community across geographies through storytelling, media arts, and cultural strategy initiatives. Real Food Real Stories is working to democratize food culture to feed our collective healing & transformation. Our programs seek to challenge who gets to shape food culture, how, and to what end, by:

• Growing power among food changemakers,
• Cultivating foodshed* communities, and
• Nourishing narratives for healing & transformation

* We define foodshed to encompass the full web of relationships that shape a local community’s connection to their food.

Matahari Women Workers’ Center / Centro de Mujeres Trabajadoras de Matahari (“Matahari”) is a membership-based social justice organization. We organize and develop the leadership of immigrant womxn and womxn of color working in low wage sectors to build power and create systematic change to end gender violence and exploitation.

Men in Reflection of Relationships (MiRoR)  As men in reflection of relationships (MiRoR), we are creating environments where men are invited to feel feelings, care for each other as we heal emotional wounds, and to practice accountability. Our goal is to support men to dissolve the ways that patriarchy and racism have infiltrated our bodies, minds, feelings, actions, relationships, cultures, and institutions. We envision a world where men experience a deeper sense of contentment and self-compassion, and can offer a wider range of support, softness, strength, and empowerment. Ultimately, we are here to help build a balanced human ecosystem that honors and empowers all life.

Men As Peacemakers (MAP) is building safe communities through programs that address and undermine the root causes of violence against women and children including sexism, male dominance, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. MAP is at the forefront of a movement to promote equality and end violence against women and children. MAP engages individuals and communities in Minnesota and beyond, by mobilizing existing community resources and developing innovative primary prevention and restorative justice strategies that are proven to significantly reduce and repair the harm caused by men. 

Metamorphosis Performing Arts Studio was founded by Leta Harris Neustaedter in 2010, combining her fields of expertise: performing arts, mental health, and interpersonal development. Leta is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of therapeutic experience, and knows deeply the social/emotional benefits of engaging in the performing arts including: strengthening self esteem, problem-solving skills, stress management, and deepening emotional insight. Her primary goal in all of her services and programs is to create connection and trust so that real change and growth can occur.

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) strengthens and transforms efforts to end domestic violence. Through our key initiatives and special projects, NRCDV works to improve community response to domestic violence and, ultimately, prevent its occurrence. We are a group of individuals collectively responsible for ensuring that we are an empowerment-based, anti-racist organization. We understand that in order to truly end domestic violence, we must address all of the systems that generate and sustain it, and that working in solidarity across issues of justice is the only way to bring about meaningful social change.

Native Organizers Alliance amplifies the power of tribes, organizations, and communities to drive policy change in Indian Country. The Alliance builds power through skills building and effective organizing for Indigenous people. Through our advocacy, capacity building, and campaign support, we’ve made transformational changes in mainstream leadership and policy. Through grassroots movements rooted in traditional Indigenous values, we can better protect the environment, promote equitable outcomes, and improve the quality of life in Indigenous communities.

On the Right Mind is a women-of-color-owned small business that provides Graphic Recording and Strategic Illustration to organizations and movements working towards social justice and creating a world where we all thrive. We center building collaborative relationships with our clients where we can provide thought partnership, a supportive visual experience and a valuable visual output. Grounded in values of: creativity, wholeheartedness & generosity and partnership, our goal is that people feel heard and seen through our work. Visualizing their truths and experiences to help reveal the group’s collective wisdom in ways that foster imagination, clarity, connection and understanding that can help them move towards meaningful change.

Orange County Civic Engagement Table (OCCET) is a progressive, AAPI-Latinx-Labor-Environmental Justice Alliance that seeks to build progressive transformation of our region. The eight organizations that anchor OCCET serve the emerging majority of the county—low income immigrant Latinx and Asian American communities that work across issues of immigrant, economic, and racial justice across the county. Through this innovative partnership, OCCET is committed to increasing the quality, scale and effectiveness of civic participation in communities of color and among low-income populations in Orange County.

Oregon Futures Lab (OFL) and its partners uplift leaders of color to enter public office and govern effectively. We’re building a new wave of leadership in the Pacific Northwest. We find leaders deeply committed to community—people who understand root causes and offer solutions. People who are best positioned to help solve issues facing their communities because they’ve lived through them, too. We bring these leaders together and train them in electoral organizing, transformative governance, and movement-building. Then, those leaders pass legislation that works for everyone to thrive, be safe, and live their fullest lives.

PODER of Idaho is a collective of undocumented and Latinx organizers in Southwest Idaho that raises consciousness, organizes, and builds power in Latinx communities through connection to culture, community building, and an intersectional approach to social justice. PODER builds the leadership of young Latinx and immigrant organizers and organizes communities in rural areas. We provide workshops in schools and universities on key issues affecting the community and participate in civil disobedience and office takeovers in D.C.

Resonance Network is a network of over 3,000 Black, Indigenous, immigrant, women, femmes, trans, and two-spirit people and their co-conspirators who are building a world beyond violence–a world rooted in mutual care, where all people live in dignity, and all beings can thrive. We are healers, leaders, artists, survivors, and storytellers creating visionary spaces to access creativity and radical imagination, build deep relationship, and practice what it means to thrive. In a dominant culture world of extractiveness and harm toward our bodies and spirits, the expansiveness and care that shapes Resonance culture is an invitation to be present and whole. It is in this kind of beloved community that a world beyond violence can take root.

Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence seeks a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive.  The Vermont Network is Vermont’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence. The Network is a statewide non-profit 501c3 membership organization which was founded in 1986. Our members are 15 independent, non-profit organizations which provide domestic and sexual violence advocacy to survivors of violence in Vermont. 

Virginia Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence Alliance, a diverse group of individuals and organizations, believes that all people have the right to a life free of sexual and domestic violence. We will use our diverse and collective voice to create a Virginia free from sexual and domestic violence—inspiring others to join and support values of equality, respect and shared power. We recognize that sexual and domestic violence are linked to other forms of oppression, which disproportionately affect women, children, and marginalized people. Understanding the great harm racism has created for individuals, families and our communities in Virginia, we commit to building within the coalition an anti-racist framework from which to address sexual and domestic violence.

The Wildseed Society is a spiritual community thriving at the intersection of Spiritual Liberation, Social Transformation and Economic Justice. We are an infinite game whose objective is to keep its members joyfully alive, deeply cared for and secure as the world is on fire, while they build portals to a future where we all get free.

Women Rising is part of the solution to the life-threatening challenges faced by women and children around the world. Governed by the women it serves, Women Rising purchases land, makes it safe for women to farm there, and provides the means to establish food-based enterprises on the purchased land. Women Rising is a community and a pathway for women of the DR Congo to forge a new destiny for themselves and their sisters.