Healing is Justice
"Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future" - Jackson Burnett
There is a clarion call for healing! We need to heal.
It is not a frivolous endeavor to center healing – our hearts, minds, bodies, spirits, relationships with one another and the earth, working environments, and movement spaces – as integral to justice, equity, and liberation. We see healing as a radical collective choice to bring about individual and societal well-being and wholeness.
Join us in a conversation to explore how:
Individual and communal healing is integral to justice and liberation
Caring for and connecting to the land is essential to our collective survival and thriving as human beings
The labor of movement building/organizing/power building and the structure of nonprofit work can create both well-being and harm
Integral healing practices support individual and communal well-being (beyond the occasional massage or day off)
Our Speakers
Theresa Harlan
Theresa Harlan is the director of the Alliance for Felix Cove, an Indigenous women led organization that works to rematriate, protect and restore her 19th century Felix Family home and ancestral lands at Point Reyes National Seashore.
Born in San Francisco, Theresa Harlan is the adopted daughter of Elizabeth Campigli Harlan (Támal-ko/Coast Miwok) and John Harlan. By birth she is Jemez Pueblo and an enrolled member of Kewa Pueblo of New Mexico.
She edited the book, She Sang Me a Good Luck Song: The California Indian Photographs of Dugan Aguilar, https://heydaybooks.com/book/she-sang-me-a-good-luck-song/ and curated the companion exhibition by the same name. Published essays include, “A View of Our Home, Tomales Bay, Calif.: Portrait of a Coast Miwok Family, 1930-1945” in Our People, Our Land, Our Images: Indigenous Photographers, Heyday Books, 2006.
Ginna Brelsford
Ginna (she/they) is a Lingít, Two-Spirit mama and ancestor-in-training with over two decades of expertise in nonprofit operations, organizational development, and justice organizing. With the guidance of movement mentors, elders, ancestors and transcestors in her heart, she brings an ethic of care and grace to the sometimes unyielding walls of nonprofit and philanthropic regulations.
Originally from Aak’w Kwáan (colonially known as Juneau, AK), Ginna currently lives on the unceded territories of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Chochenyo Ohlone, in Oakland, CA with her family and two ornery, elderly cats. Her non-work time is currently overwhelmed by her grade-school daughter’s social calendar but when she does have down time she prefers to spend it with her partner while pretending she’s on Jeopardy from the coziness of her couch.
