Virtual Southern Oregon-focused Offers and Needs Market
New Date TBD – Stay tuned!
Online on Zoom
Co-facilitated by dani leonardo and Gabriela Safay, this event invites both people who didn’t make it in person on February 8th or 22nd, as well as those who joined to come together for a follow up!
All with relationship to Southern Oregon are welcome! We will gather for a 2-hour Offers and Needs Market, with a 30-min post-session casual reflection and networking space offered.
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.
This event is a virtual follow-up to the in-person events we held in Ashland and Grants Pass in February, 2025 as part of the following event series (stay tuned for more events upcoming!):
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.
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 in-person Offers and Needs Market (OANM) features an Indigenous guest speaker and a Native-led non-profit. The series will culminate in an in-person OANM Facilitator Training that will be a chance for people to learn how to facilitate this powerful community building process!
In-person events are 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
Questions? Email oanm@postgrowth.org
Indigenous Community Care: Traditions of Reciprocity
Learn more about our local work in this article —written by Crystal Arnold, March 2024