Center for Whole Communities

With heart, soul, and substance, CWC is making fundamental culture shifts within our movements, organizations, and institutions so necessary to our capacity to thrive on this planet.

Rosa Gonzalez

Board member, Whole Communities Fellow

CWC practices are an embodiment of our wildest dreams of liberation, peace, and freedom. The community we build is rooted in relationships and love for ourselves and the planet. In growing with one another, we are expanding our movements for social change and solidarity.

Josh Carrera

Board Member

The processes and practices CWC grows alongside land and community are so needed in our daily collective efforts to live into the world we need and deeply desire. Deep love and gratitude for offering us more ways to show up to our own lives and with each other.

Tannia Esparza

Board Member, Whole Communities Fellow

I continue to be impressed by CWC's commitment to justice, people and earth, and excited by their practices of truth-telling, relationship building and care.

Leigh Robbie Gaymon-Jones

Board Member

At its heart, the work of CWC... is the work of healing. Healing from the impacts of our extractive economy and supremacy culture require practices that help us to love ourselves... AND community to create and support new possibilities with.

Kavitha Rao

Senior Fellow and Board Chair

I’ve come to believe that the most essential part of change work is cultivating human connection first and foremost.... to create the conditions for the creativity, trust and partnership that will allow us to manifest the world we want.

Julian Mocine-McQueen

Senior Fellow

CWC amplifies the voices of those who labor for justice and for joy. I learn each day from this team's commitment to transformative action and right relationship.....

Susannah McCandless

Special Projects Manager

CWC's work is grounded in and manifested through relationships. I absolutely cherish how they bring this focus into any of the work they do, whether it's with movement networks, community leaders or in large organizations.

Samir K. Doshi, Ph.D.

Board Chair

CWC’s values and practices align strongly with the work I feel most fulfilled in doing, in systems change, leadership development, and story.

Britaney Watson

Environmental Justice Community Engagement & Network Coordinator

I believe that the deepest transformation (in our selves and in the world) comes... through understanding brought on by honest engagement, patience, courage, love, and genuine interest—all qualities I see at the heart of the work of CWC.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Faculty Trainer

I am drawn to Whole Communities work because it.... centers an unwavering commitment to holding and facilitating courageous spaces that call us to the core of ourselves with undeniable skill, care, and vulnerability.

Samara Gaev

Senior Fellow

I’m committed to listening for community stories that acknowledge and work creatively with difference, tension, and grief in ways that are generative, restorative, and life-affirming....

Mohamad A. Chakaki

Senior Fellow

....In a moment ripe for change, our world relies on the values and work driven at CWC. Grounded in land and planet, connected to diverse wisdoms and moving towards justice through leadership, CWC is the best way forward for me.

Patrick Brown

Board Member

Our ability to be aware of ourselves, our past, is a gift to the present moment. CWC’s work helps us stay present with each other: to fall down, get up, learn, grow and begin again.

Ginny McGinn

Executive Director

CWC’s work is about deepening into place and bridging into belonging. The wisdom they offer is needed now more than ever.

Brooke Lehman

Board Member

Through this work, I can practice into the world I believe is possible, where all beings are protected from harm and we are collectively healing the wrongs of the past, remembering and following original codes of reverence, reciprocity, repair and right relationship.

Kristin Rothballer

Senior Fellow

....I’m constantly being challenged and challenging others to see our interconnectedness. My goal is always to bring history into the present and demonstrate the ways in which... “of all our studies, history is in the best position to reward our research.”

Delma Jackson III

Senior Fellow

....CWC's thoughtful, deeply inquiring and compassionate approach to facilitating change is a model that can be helpful in solving problems in all kinds of communities.