This Is How We Care

Lorena Nascimento (she/her) is an educator, working with environmental justice, urban forestry, community engagement, and data empowerment. Originally from Brazil, Lorena moved to Portland, OR to pursue a Ph. D. in Urban Studies. In her dissertation, she described the Western criminalization, acculturation, and cultural appropriation of Black and Indigenous values regarding cultural ecosystem serv...

Sarah Vitti (she/her) is Senior Manager of Culture Change at Caring Across Generations , a national campaign that is transforming our country's care infrastructure and the way that our society relates to and values caregiving. Sarah is also a creative in her own right. She's a producer, a poet, and digital collage artist. She’s currently birthing an artist residency in the woods of the Mohawk Vall...

Alondra Sanchez (she/her) is a labor and postpartum companion who devotes herself to whole family wellness. She believes in a slow and gentle way of life by practicing things like urban homesteading, sustainable living, organic nourishment, and deep self and community care. Her Mexican Indigenous roots led her to hold a village-centered method of life; that she believes will bring her home to a li...

Naila Francis (she/her) is a writer, grief coach, death midwife, and ordained interfaith minister. She holds space and offers rituals for people at many of life’s sacred thresholds, including birth, marriage, death, and other transitional passages. Naila is the founder of Salt Trails, an interdisciplinary Philadelphia collective making grief shared, public and visible through community rituals.  I...

Lauren Hage (she/her) is Executive Director and co-founder of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, an educational nonprofit that encourages the study and practice of "Earth Intimacy", "Co-Liberation", "Embodiment" and "Prayerful Action" as key approaches for addressing the social and ecological crises of our times. She comes from Ashkenazi Jewish (Odessa), Sicilian, and Scottish ance...

Claudia Serrato (she/her) is an Indigenous culinary anthropologist, a public scholar, a doctoral candidate, and a professor of ethnic studies. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California predominantly on an Indigenous Mesoamerican diet. At an early age, she began to cook alongside her elders, gaining time-tested food knowledge. In this episode, Emily and Claudia discuss the decolonization o...

Amber O’Neal Johnston is an author, speaker, and worldschooling mama who blends life-giving books and a culturally rich environment for her four children and others seeking to do the same. In this episode, Emily and Amber dive into the world of homeschooling and Amber’s vision for a better education system for all. Amber shares her perspective on the importance of creating a tapestry of cultural a...

An award-winning innovator, Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland bridges diverse disciplines and communities to heal people, society, and the planet. She is founder and chief executive officer of The Women Invested to Save Earth Fund (WISE). The WISE Fund is a financial inclusion, equity and innovation enterprise blending advocacy and blended capital to support Black, Indigenous, and allied entrepreneurs a...

Tamara Iglesias is the founder of Wellynest, a conscious parenting coaching brand dedicated to raising whole beings from the very beginning through the conscious parent's own self-healing journey home. Her mission is to shift the way children are raised by bringing the awareness of self into parenting along with childhood trauma, limiting beliefs, ancestral wounds, and more. In this episode, Emily...

We all eat, we all have to purchase food, but many of us have no idea where our food comes from, how it impacts the natural world, and how it works within our economic systems. In this episode, Emily interviews the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Food Action Network, Shakira Miracle (she/her) to discuss what a more equitable, sustainable food system looks like and how to get there. Shakira...

In this episode, Emily sits down with cultural strategist, land steward, filmmaker, and artist, Layel Camargo (they/them). Layel, a transgender and non-binary person, have spent the last decade advancing climate justice through storytelling. They co-founded Shelterwood Collective, a land-based organization that focuses on advancing a new worldview through forestry, artist investment and healing. E...

In our inaugural episode of the Founding Mothers Podcast, Bobbie Breckenridge (she/her), transformational coach, healer, and performing artist, flips the script and interviews host and creator, Emily Race (she/her). Emily is a “curious explorer of worlds inside and out,” who has let her curiosity and gut guide her through different chapters of life. From working in advertising to waiting tables to...

Introducing, the Founding Mothers podcast. Season one launches August 15, 2022.