A farmer’s market volunteer popped in the first day I had my food cart was at Mission Mercado, a stunning cutie with a giant backpack and super luscious hair, “I’ve been craving your potsticker burrito for WEEKS, here I brought y’all the most amazing strawberries!”

Lzrd broke down any walls I had up and quickly demanded they help my business and our friendship grew out of a love of art, whimsy and cultivating community.

Lzrd Uzcangah is in quite a time of need at this moment; they’d been facing job insecurities when their whole apartment was flooded with sewage drainage, the uhaul that they were using to get items off the ground was stolen, they just went thru a much needed medical surgery when an emergency dental procedure was preformed last week.

I’ve seen my friend Lzrd go from a farmers market volunteer to market manager at Mission Mercado in San Francisco, go from student to teacher of neon bending at the Crusible in Oakland, help so many artist organize and build fantastical dreamscapes with SKAST and impressively help so many organize and bring life to many cherished community spaces in Oakland and the Bay Area. They’ve inspire me to volunteer and be selfless as much as possible and have helped me gain empathy and trust the ride all along the way!

This has been quite a time of enormous economical stresses and the endeavors of the past few years have not been kind to lots of people who hold together and build beauty in our beloved spaces. Lzrd has held strong but is in a real dire time of needing collective support.

I have and will always continue to learn from them and know they deserve real financially stabile bedrock.

Thank you for reading this and please contribute to help this wonderful person get back to a stable and healthy future.