We practice a teaching philosophy that invites participants to critique structures of power and cycles of oppression. Through journeying this struggle for ownership and accountability participants demystify authority and power as a means to re-examine and re-construct in solidarity with the purpose of developing equity for Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color (Giroux, 2013; Freire, 1970; Kincheloe, 2011).

We practice organizing that begins with self-awareness and requires new ways of being and envisioning. Due to the historical misuse of power nurturing a veiling misperception of being contained solely by the institutional systems which have suppressed Black, Indigenous and People of Color both structures and ourselves must be engaged for required ideological, strategic, and mass-based organizing.

We practice being present as a means to creatively ask, who’s liberation are we cultivating and why? Participants and Leadership are encouraged to have an emergent and imaginative analysis of how current struggles in the process of liberation are a reflection of the needs to replace toxic oppressive constructs resistant to cultivating systems that regard our humanity and our sovereignty.