Support Rachelle's 825-mile Legacy for Community Healing
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Hi, I'm Rachelle Zola. I'm 76 years young and just walked 825 miles from Chicago, IL, to Montgomery, AL, USA—healing communities along the way by weaving courageous stories to build powerful bridges of connection between people. I started walking on April 2, 2024, and reached the Alabama State Capitol on September 12. This is just the beginning!
Our goal is to host 250 dialogue circles, bringing people together to connect deeply in community. Only through communicating can we know each other. Knowing each other reduces our fear of each other and opens the door for love. Love heals our communities after centuries of racial harm as we learn to be authentic together.
This is especially critical in a pivotal election year. The quality of our votes depends on how well we truly understand the needs of people in our communities, which will only happen when we know each other.
Your tax-deductible donation will help ignite:
- Resilient communities through hundreds of dialogue circles
- The next generation of community leaders with circle keeper training
- People activated by LATE: a Love Story experiences nationwide
- Walk In Your Town monthly gatherings to know your neighbors
- A documentary about Rachelle's pilgrimage of courageous stories and healing circles
- A quilt stitched by Black women artisans to memorialize hundreds of stories collected during Rachelle's journey (see them here: https://www.instagram.com/latelovequilt)
This is a love story—a tribute to the people who so many deem as invisible, dismiss and/or hate because of the color of their skin. I had never even considered them, their lives, their lived experiences, the depth of the harm, the trauma, that they experience every day. Not easy to admit and necessary.
I offer a one-woman play and dialogue experience called LATE: a Love Story. First I tell my story about truths I learned late in life. Then I share stories of the people who have opened their hearts to me. My goal is for you to leave reimagining our shared world.
LATE: a Love Story was birthed in close partnership with Melissa Lorraine, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Y, and Emily Bragg, Playwright, with whom I collaborated for a year in creating the experience. Theatre Y is our fiscal sponsor and host for the LATE LOVE community.
Follow my journey of racial liberation here: https://late.love
Radical Love,
Rachelle, Rachel & Andy
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Rachelle Zola
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Chicago, IL
Theatre Y
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