Indigenous Wisdom & the Offers and Needs Market
Through ongoing collaboration with local Indigenous leaders, the Post Growth Institute will run a free event series and training that will deepen networks and hone facilitation skills. Register for free for the in-person events this February below!
These events serve to invigorate social vitality and well being throughout rural Southern Oregon by building upon Native American cultural practices, seed swaps, barter fairs, farmers markets, crafters guilds, and cooperative organizing. Each event will feature an Indigenous guest speaker and a Native-led non-profit.
Grants Pass – Indigenous Wisdom & The Offers and Needs Market
Saturday, February 22 from 1-4 PM
Redwood Grange Hall
Co-facilitated by dani leonardo, Gabriela Safay, & Jasi Swick, with guest speaker Echo Miller.
In partnership with SOESD Indian Education & Native Woman Share.
Snacks will be provided!
Your Facilitators
dani leonardo
Facilitator
dani (they/she) is a facilitator, organizer, emergent strategist, and musician with a background in Permaculture Design and youth mentoring. As the Post Growth Institute’s Director of Equity, they bring a grounding in ecological wisdom, perspectives from the margins, and a centering in Anti-Oppressive Practice. dani’s work centers around collaboration, co-liberation, creativity and justice, with a keen eye to the intersections of art, music and liberatory movements. In their free time you can find dani at the piano, in the garden, and exploring wild places as a lover of the color purple and a nerd for plants, polyrhythms, and Hayao Miyazaki movies.
Gabriela Safay
Facilitator
Gabriela is the Director of Wellbeing at the PGI. She is passionate about regenerative economies, embodied social justice, and using grief as a tool for connection and transformation. She wants to help shape a world where economies and social systems work for nature, not against it. She was born and raised in Ashland, Oregon and is currently living on Ohlone land also known as Santa Cruz, California. When she’s not working she enjoys laying in the sun, walking in the forest, and sharing food with friends.
Teresa Cisneros
Facilitator
Teresa is the VP of the Oregon Indian Education Association and for over 10 years has been an Indian Education Facilitator for the Southern Oregon Education Services District (SOESD). She is a former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor. She identifies as a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas.
Jasi Swick
Facilitator
Jasi (JC) was born on the Standing Rock Reservation and is Lakota Oyate’ of the Oceti Sakowin and is a proud citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Jasi grew up in very rural Montana and moved to Oregon 7 years ago with her long-term partner, Andy and their two children: Alyssa and Alexander. Jasi attended SOU and focused on Native American Studies and Education and has been working with the Indian Education program since 2020.
Your Guest Speakers
Kenwanicahee Kravitz
Guest Speaker
Kenwani is a culture bearer, tribal advocate and Native scholar with a deep knowledge and understanding of tribal community, culture and protocols. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Madesi Band of the Pit River Nation and a descendant of the Northern Wintu people. Mrs. Kravitz holds a Master of Legal Studies with emphasis in Federal Indian Law and Tribal Self Governance from Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law as well a BA in Native Studies Leadership from Northwest Indian College.
Kenwani is the Native Nations Liaison at Southern Oregon University. She has extensive tribal advocacy experience, has worked within tribal community and also stepped beyond cultural divides as an advocate for Native education, tribal sovereignty, Indigenous language revitalization, inclusion of Native people and their voice as well as tribal community wellness. In addition to her tribal advocacy work she also has a background in cultural museum curation, Indian Child Welfare, program development and planning as well as over 20 years of business ownership and management experience. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother.
Echo Miller
Guest Speaker
Echo Miller is an enrolled member of the Klamath tribes and represents inter-tribal communities. Echo is Head Woman for Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Annual Umpqua Falls Pow Wow. She is Co-Chair of the Southern Oregon Indian Education Parent Committee, representing Jackson & Josephine County. She is the Board Secretary of the Josephine County Culture Coalition and board member of the Culture and Ecological Ehancement Network. She volunteers with the Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance Board. She is an Indigenous dancer, singer, artist, teacher, and leader. She lives in the Illinois Valley with her husband and four daughters.
Questions? Email danileonardo@postgrowth.org
Indigenous Community Care: Traditions of Reciprocity
Learn more about our local work in this article —written by Crystal Arnold, March 2024
This is a project of the Post Growth Institute, in partnership with SOESD Indian Education, Red Earth Descendants, and Native Woman Share.
Funded with support from the Ford Family Foundation.
Native Woman Share
SOESD Indian Education
Red Earth Descendants