27. a humble student of abolition, astrology, & healing justice for 5+ years. a student of narrative, comms, and cultural strategy for over 7.
Brenda is a weaver of the energies of the sky and the earth and an architect for liberation. They are a seed-saving, worm-loving, builder and organizer rooted in the responsibilities we have to care, love, and grow with each other outside, inside, and in community.
Brenda spent their formative years in Mexico and then migrated to an unincorporated community in Kings County and grew up in a dairy.
Brenda comes from a background in decolonial anthropology, grassroots organizing, and narrative & communications work. They are rooted in disability justice, transformative justice, healing justice, mutual aid, and the belief that we all can have everything we need when we connect and build together.
Programs, Training & Certifications:
Holding Space for Generative Conflict - Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
FIRE (Farming in Relation to the Earth) Immersion - Soul Fire Farm
Full Spectrum Doula Training - Birthworkers of Color Collective, Cohort 11 (in progress)
Community Fellow for the Climate of Inequalities Fellowship - Humanities Action Lab
Indigenous Permaculture Design Course - Permaculture College Australia
Cultural Strategy Central Valley Organizing Fellow - Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley
Build, Unlearn, Decolonize (BUD) - COFED
The Arete Project - Blue Ridge Session in North Carolina’s Appalachia
Young People For Fellow under Community Safety, Police Brutality & Prison Abolition - YP4
Fellow for the Poetry Incubator - Poetry Foundation