#4  |  July 2025

This summer, our Hive is growing! We are so honored to welcome Project 48 into our fiscal hosting group. Led by the incomparable Jamelah Zidan and our very own Hive teammate Micha Kurz, the initiative exists to create a reflective, justice-centered learning space that centers Palestinian voices, histories, and lived experiences, while making vital connections to structures of dispossession, colonialism, and resistance in the U.S. Through community-building, critical inquiry, and collective study, the initiative cultivates informed solidarity, challenges dominant narratives, and equips participants to engage ethically with liberation movements—both locally and globally. We’re honored to support this visionary work.

And please stay tuned! We’re excited to welcome more aligned projects into the Nest as early as next month.

We also want to take a moment to honor a transition: Joanna Macy, the luminous author, activist, teacher, friend and family member who inspired and gave her name to the Center for Resilience and Regeneration, the home of the Climate Justice Hive at Naropa University, transitioned this past weekend. Her teachings, words, and spirit continue to guide us. Ones that have resonated deeply with me recently are:

“This moment you’re alive. You can just dial up the magic of that at any time.”

We sure can, y’all…and I’m grateful to be dialing up the magic with all of you.

With care and momentum,

— Katie

p.s. In case you’d like some more, the words above from Joanna Macy came from an On Being interview with Kirsta Tippet called A Wild Love for the World…don’t you love that title? Thanks to Lodi for introducing me to the podcast…and for having a wild love for this world that we all share!