Isabella Zizi: Indigenous Environmental Justice
Earlier this year, I received multiple emails from some colleagues to apply for Making Contact’s Spring Community Storytelling Fellowship. I was very intrigued by the title of the fellowship: Indigenous Solutions and Climate Crisis. I finally said to myself “Let’s take a look at what this is all about.” At first I was hesitant to apply because I didn’t consider myself a storyteller. I felt that I didn’t have the background skills or...
Community Storytelling Fellow for Indigenous Climate Leadership: Isabella Zizi
This week as people prepare for the Climate Marches, we’re welcoming Making Contact’s new Community Storytelling Fellow for Indigenous Climate Leadership: Isabella Zizi! Isabella is a member of the Northern Cheyenne, Arikara, and Muskogee Creek tribes and the founder of Earth Guardians Bay Area. At 22 years old, she is the youngest member of Idle No More SF Bay. In Isabella’s words: “I’ve been active in...
Deadline 3/22/17: Community Storytelling Fellowship, Indigenous Solutions and Climate Crisis
Thank you to everyone who applied for our Community Storytelling Fellowship, Indigenous Solutions and Climate Crisis. We would love to work with each of you in any way possible in the future. Currently we are welcoming Isabella Zizi as our next fellow!...
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Our Lives are NOT for the Taking
Dear friend, Corporate-owned media contributed to Trump’s win as much as this country’s entrenched racism and white supremacy, patriarchy and xenophobia. At Making Contact we value transformative storytelling and create a space for OURcommunities to be heard. An alternative to the empty calories of breaking “news” shows.Let’s take our stories back! People are in motion and in this period we’re...
