Street Works
Thankful to Ernest Verrett for cofounding Street Works, a group of artists and neighbors helping our communities creatively connect, collaborate, and take action on the issues that matter in their lives. We organize street festivals, mutual aid efforts, and cultural research that serve justice and grow into long-term neighborhood projects.
We believe artists have a role in strengthening democracy, not just by telling stories, but by co-designing ways for communities to build power, care for each other, and transform broken systems. The street is both a canvas and a symbol of what shared ownership and joyful public life can look like when people have space to shape it.
Make Justice Normal
Grateful to be a co-founder of Make Justice Normal, a collective founded in 2021 to develop and implement justice-centered organizing models — like equitable budgeting, democratic decision-making, and circular leadership structures. As a non-hierarchical collective, MJN members create independent ventures with MJN members or others, and apply its standards for just organizing.
Circlefor
Circlefor is a home for collaboration between me and the brilliant and wondrous poet, Purvi Shah. Our purpose is to foster space where art emerges through connection, participation, and listening. Our Etsy shop is a home for affordable, community engaged artwork, featuring digital drawings and poetry inspired by vital community stories.
Learn more at our shared project site, circlefor.com.
