Help Harmony Recharge to Continue Her Vital Work

Hello, I'm Harmony. I am a mother, community organizer and environmental activist. I spend most of my time giving to others, advocating for healthy communities and creating a beautiful world and future for my children and all the children. This work has many challenges and in recent times has been soul crushing. It's imperative for the advocates, warriors and healers to find ways to recharge, reconnect and find hope in these trying times.

Last month, we learned that the nonprofit I direct, The Green House Connection Center, will be losing 85% of our funding. We do great work in one of the most polluted communities in the country, pairing music, movement and the arts with elevating marginalized voices, environmental policy work and healing. On the same day, the water conservation in oil and gas policy work I’ve dedicated the past 3 years to Imploded because an environmental group dis a back room deal with Chevron. I acknowledge that our society relies on fossil fuels. That said, the system is very inefficient, incredibly broken and has significant environmental and health harms that could be lessened through policy and better industry operating practices. We need folks like me out here pushing on the status quo, working towards equitable systems change and reimaging a better future.

I needed a reset and had the opportunity to trek through Peru with my favorite indigenous activist, storyteller and inspiration Nat Kelley. She inspires me to connect with nature, honor traditional wisdoms and indigenous peoples and challenge our extractive capitalist systems. We spent a lot of time learning about the Quechua people and their society based on ‘we’ instead of ‘me’. This trip has been truly transformative. We visited sacred water sites, participated in a Peruvian despacho ceremony to honor our mother earth, we hiked 17 miles through the Andes on a trail that can’t be found on maps, we met a potato farmer who knows when to plant the crops when the fox sings a certain song, we visited a community who has been raising alpacas for generations and fighting to hold on to their traditional ways of life, we met so many people who shared their food, culture and hopes and dreams for the future.

I needed this experience to come back, be inspired and recharge to keep going in this work and to be of service to others. I financially couldn’t afford this experience but by spirit couldn’t afford not to go, which is why I’m asking please for your support. If you can please chip in and/or share, every bit helps.