Hi! This is Dr. Saudi, In Cultured Company's new Executive Director. It's been a busy and wonderful year at In Cultured Company. In January of 2023, we welcomed an exciting team of practitioners with specialties in mental health, spiritual healing and social justice. You can learn all about our team on our website.
Together, we charted a mission for our organization that reflects the needs we see in our community:
ICC cultivates the skills for wholeness, service and conflict resolution by curating intimate workshops, shaping public discourse, and designing accessible educational tools, trainings, and resources for Haitian and Dominican communities, students, activists, and other professionals wherever they are.
WEPA!
With our research and social media presence, we intervened critically in several important conversation on: The denial of systemic racism anti-Blackness by the Dominican President and First Lady; the unnecessary aggressions on the DR-Haiti border over water resources and the building of the canal and the need to connect the Palestinian cause to the struggle for a #FreeHaiti. We used our funds to send 25 people to the historic march on D.C. for Palestine, which took place on Saturday November 4th, 2023. All of this is archived on our Instagram, @inculturedco.
We are really proud of everything we have done in five years and with the excellent guidance of our founder, France François.
We want YOU to be a part of the building of our organization in 2024!
Why?
Because we will thrive, heal and be liberated in community.
As the ongoing genocides in Palestine, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, the prosecution of Cop City protestors in Atlanta, and the ongoing occupation of Haiti (now with a Kenyan face) makes clear, we are living through extremely repressive and difficult times. This moment is asking of something from all of us:
That we take responsibility as people living within the U.S. empire.
That we speak truth to power.
That we see our struggles as interconnected and organize creatively.
That we remain rooted in our bodies, our ancestral practices and traditions.
That we dare to hope for a better future for our descendants.
These are gifts we can give this freely and with love, knowing that the result will be a world where we can live with safety and care.
At In Cultured Company, we are putting our little grain of sand into building that world.
We want you to be a part of it!
TL:DR
On this giving Tuesday, we ask that you:
Become a monthly donor to our cause!
Shop our Merch!
Get to know our team!
Apply to work with our logistics team or share the opportunity with someone who might be a good fit.
Become a “Friend of In Cultured Company” volunteer for our upcoming NYC-based Decolonizing Hispaniola Workshops.
Hire us for trainings, workshops and speaking engagements on Conflict Resolution, Decolonization and Anti-Blackness in the Latinx community.
We thank you for your support and we are so excited for a transformative 2024.
With love, respect and solidarity,
-Dr. Saudi