An Indigenous Led Revitalization Project Focused on Land Stewardship, Education and First Foods. You can see more about this amazing project on their website.

The Community Equity Initiative (CEI) is a BIPOC/PGM-led organization rooted in Jefferson County. We believe meaningful change grows through relationships, shared learning, collective care, and the leadership of people most affected by injustice. Our work creates spaces where community members can build connection, make meaning from their experiences, strengthen their collective voice, and imagine more just possibilities together.

CEI supports community-led efforts that move beyond inclusion toward power, accountability, healing, and long-term transformation. Through popular education, narrative strategy, community engagement, restorative and transformative practices, facilitation, and training, we work alongside residents, organizers, service providers, institutions, and public agencies. We especially center BIPOC/PGM communities, LGBTQIA+ people, youth, disabled people, people experiencing housing insecurity, and survivors of violence.

Current projects include:

• The Narrative Justice Project and Narrative Justice Network, which support strategy-based storytelling, community witness, and collective action

• Tenant organizing conversations that bring renters together around housing stability, safety, dignity, and power

• Survivor-centered restorative and transformative justice work focused on healing, accountability, and community-based responses to harm

• Equity-centered workshops, facilitation, and community engagement that help local organizations and institutions build more just and accountable practices

To connect with someone at CEI, email tonia@usawaconsulting.com.

A small group of writers who are enthralled by the art of language and it’s capacity to speak about and to worlds known and not so familiar. While our bodies are currently rooted on what has recently been called the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, the DNA of our bodies is spread across the varied diasporas of the People of the Global Majority (PGM). The place is important because we believe in the entanglement of relationships with the more-than-human world and how it becomes the ground of our writing. While our work does not necessarily address life in this particular place, we want to acknowledge that it likely has molded our literary sensibilities as much as anything. Our goal is to cultivate the literary arts among our kin, PGM (aka BIPOC), here in this place we call as a way of placemaking and honing our collective and individual voices for no particular purpose other than our own edification and enjoyment. Through writing spaces, workshops, retreats and book clubs, hope to nurture the imagination and skill of our people to write, to speak, to be witnessed in truth telling, and to be known.