Mission
Our mission is to create novel processes and spaces for communities of people with scientific and generational knowledge to destabilize oppressive systems and fight back against escalating social and planetary disaster.
We aim to create impact-driven research that shifts public dialogue and civic action towards greater justice and, as a result, more stable and functioning ecological systems.
We practice connecting environmental measurement with intergenerational understandings and memories of a changing planet. We don’t “work with communities”, we are the community.
We make the scientific method a tool of empowerment used for and by people who are systematically left out of academia, and whose lives and landscapes are being shaped by unjust systems.
We create the conditions— the culture, resources, community solidarity, and technical skill— to provoke unnamed and unasked questions about our society and planet to emerge.
We investigate relationships between social, economic, and political systems, the ideologies that prop them up, and the natural systems they directly impact in the era of climate crisis.
We do this work by maintaining the highest standards of social responsibility and scientific integrity.
We center the experiences and participation of globally marginalized people and create a more equitable future for generating new knowledge and solutions.
