COLlABORATORS
My work would not be possible without surrounding myself with amazing people and organizations. Here are a few of my closest.
T Benicio Gonzales
T is a social justice practitioner and experienced public health leader. T is currently a PhD candidate with a focus on how organizations define, practice, and measure the effectiveness of their health and racial equity strategies. T is an avid crafter and budding sewer. T was born and raised in Texas and has called Louisville, Kentucky, home since 2006. T is a graduate of the University of Houston where T earned a Master of Social Work with a policy concentration. T holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
T is a social justice practitioner and experienced public health leader. T is currently a PhD candidate with a focus on how organizations define, practice, and measure the effectiveness of their health and racial equity strategies. T is an avid crafter and budding sewer. T was born and raised in Texas and has called Louisville, Kentucky, home since 2006. T is a graduate of the University of Houston where T earned a Master of Social Work with a policy concentration. T holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
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Beth Trigg
Beth grew up in the Southern Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina and has worked with organizations and communities in WNC for more than 20 years. Grounded in a deep commitment to equity and social justice, Beth works with organizations, collaboratives, and movements to build capacity, create consensus, mobilize resources, and develop strategy. In her consulting practice, Taproot Consulting, Beth partners with organizations and co-facilitators in caring, collaborative, creative facilitation of collective strategy and organizational change. Beth's approach to working with clients is open, participatory, collaborative, and creative. With roots in popular education, anti-oppression organizing, and formal and informal consensus process, Beth draws on a lifetime of experience as a participant in movements and organizations. Beth is a mother and a gardener and her work is informed by her connection to the natural world and her community of activists, artists, community builders, culture workers, caregivers, farmers, family, and friends. |
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Lauren Rayburn
Lauren Rayburn is a design researcher, strategist, and facilitator who partners with small-staffed nonprofits, foundations and volunteer-led boards / collectives to develop programs and strategic plans so that everyday work aligns with and drives meaningful impact in the communities they serve. After more than a decade working as an environmental planner, she now uses her background in whole-systems thinking and public engagement to ground strategy. She specializes in using participatory techniques to center the voices and experiences of those whom programs and services are designed to serve. This ensures that strategic goals, priorities, and everyday actions align with what matters most to those who sit at the center of the work. |
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Acupuncture Free Clinic of Asheville
Acupuncture Free Clinic of Asheville provides free/donation based acupuncture services for underserved communities, ensuring accessibility for black, indigenous, and people of color. |
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Aflorar Herb Collective
The Aflorar Herb Collective is a collective of folk herbalists, herbal enthusiasts, artists, gardeners, and community organizers working to relearn and remember our traditional ways through herbs, connection to the land, and healing through Chicanx, Latinx, Black and Indigenous traditional practices and values. We carry out our work by making herbs more accessible to communities through free herbal care kit distribution, Springtime herb plantita giveaways, and pop-up herbal healing spaces in the community. |
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