Subject: Podcast and a chance to vote!

Dear friends,



Two things in this note - a new podcast! and a chance to vote for workshops (including ours!) at SOCAP 2024.



First: our new podcast with my friend Maija West.



I met Maya through her work as a peacekeeper and one of the co-founders of HRI, the Healing and Reconciliation Institute. I was immediately impressed with some of the work that they do with indigenous tribes and nations on the West Coast. I think you will really appreciate her insights and her journey. 



In this conversation, we get into different aspects of her experiences in peacemaking, including around sacred land. She recently stepped out of her formal role at HRI, although she remains engaged. She shares some of what was helpful to her as she started. Our conversation gets into her own quest for a better understanding of her own ancestry, land, and landcestors.



I hope you enjoy this conversation!




In addition to this podcast, I would like to share that we have put forward two proposals for the upcoming SOCAP global conference this coming Fall in San Francisco. SOCAP is a gathering of impact investors - people trying to use market forces to create greater sustainability. I am inviting you all to vote for our upcoming workshops. Final date for voting is April 14.



One workshop is on Origin Stories - this is a workshop that I first developed for the Family Office Association held in Martha's Vineyard about 5 years ago. That was a very special Family Office gathering - amongst other things, I got to connect some of the folks from the Family Office Association with members of the Wampanoag community on Martha's Vineyard - who happened to be doing a major fundraiser featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer. So several of us piled into a car, drove from the fancy hotel across the island to the Aquinnah reservation (which remains one of my favorite spaces on the island), and got to hear kimmerer speak alongside several other native women and artists, telling stories, playing music, and sharing some of their own origin stories. It was definitely a magical evening, and I'm happy to say that several people donated, and some important connections were made. The success of my workshop on Origin Stories led me to keep offering it at other gatherings and now via an online course and always to great success. 



Vote now


The other workshop is on supporting the context for funding indigenous innovation. For this one, about increasing investor readiness for funding indigenous innovation, I helped to pull together this international panel, which includes my colleague Ramasubramanian, who is currently working on supporting a network of indigenous entrepreneurs in India, a native investor based in Alaska who works with our friends at Jump Scale, and a South American investor based in Peru and focused on indigenous communities in the Amazon. We saw the need for this workshop from conversations we had (pre-pandemic) with indigenous entrepreneurs in Ecuador when we (Ram, myself, and several colleagues) were there for a NEXUS Latin America event.



You do not have to be even thinking about attending SOCAP in order to vote for these!  If you think that these are the kinds of workshops you would like to see people gathered at SOCAP, who are interested in making a social and environmental impact (both philanthropists and investors) to engage with, then go ahead and vote.... and feel free to see what other workshops are being proposed. It's often fun to see what kinds of ideas people are putting out there…. And interesting to notice what is not there! 



Vote now


I've realized, as I've written this email, that I don't talk a lot in these newsletters about my explicit work with investors, philanthropists, and family offices.... or in the ways we are finding to support indigenous entrepreneurs and related collaborative efforts. 



The questions of remembering and reenchanting are 

questions about what we have inherited from our ancestors, which includes our cultural contexts, and what we are leaving for future generations - our legacies.



Which we can Re-originate into both wonder/blessings and the severing wounds of the doctrine of discovery, which have implications on so many ways, from ecological destruction, funding for creations, and taxation.



Yes, taxes. My partner Kristine used to be an auditor. So we talk a lot about numbers and compliance and governance. More on that later



Blessings on the multitude and the mysteries (and for you Americans, best of luck with your taxes!

Sara Jolena

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