What Can I Do? The Freed Woman Fund Answers, by Babz Rawls Ivy (Cohort 1)
“The question dogged me… What could I do? How could I extend that same care and concern to other Black women?”
Fighting the fight (and flights) that needs fighting, by Rachel Heerema (Cohort 2)
“...it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us." -Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Prophet & Time, by Khalil Gibran
"...if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons... let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
Read Your Greens, by Erica G. Bradley (Cohort 26)
"Food insecurity is a huge problem in our country. It is about available resources, access to good food and clean water, good information, and quality education..."
White Lies-Masked Madness, by Tom Ficklin (Cohort 13)
“My folks have been trying to get folks to do the right thing since 1619, and I am totally spent, trying to do the collective therapy think healing pie-in-the-sky riff.”
Forgiveness: The Personal & The Policy (Part 1), by David Burden (Cohort 29)
“I spent those 14 years preparing myself to be a vessel on this side, and to come home and do what God called me to do...”
Kyisha Velazquez, MS, LPC (Cohort 16)
”Part of my self-growth was not to find my voice – I always, already had my voice – but to have the courage to use it in the way that I wanted to use it.”
Journey Home, by Rabindranath Tagore
"...that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune."
José Feliciano (Cohort 21), Be Intentive LLC Owner/Lead Consultant, Strategist, Educator, Community Engagement Practitioner, Movement Enthusiast…
"In a world where the dominant cultural default is to react – to do – that singular question and sound has so much power to slow things down, bring clarity, and create understanding..."
Indigenous People and Data Trends on Death & Life, by Kia Honhongva (Cohort 29)
"We are achieving this because we have been focused on caring about our elders and our larger indigenous community..."