The Institute for Regenerative Futures is an intergenerational community-based collective of Black and other Indigenous co-conspiratorial educators, elders, healing practitioners, memory workers (researchers) and beloved community. Our collective emerged through timely intersections of community engagement, education, and research that highlight the psychological, emotional, and physiological impacts of anti-blackness and colonization. We are connected in our efforts to counter the forces that destabilize our self-determination and we are rooted in educational pathways towards futures that are in the right relation with our ancestral and cultural ways of being and knowing.
We seek to regenerate futures through memory, research, grounded practice and service.
We move collectively toward these aims through three initiatives:
Community Responsive Collective: CRC is committed to grounded practice and service through building and connecting with elders, young people, grassroots collectives and autonomous community spaces (“Network of supports”) in an effort to support and sustain community-centered praxis (care work).
Black Futures Lab: BFL supports ongoing research and memory that disrupts the policies, and practices that compromise Black futures as a means to seeding and tending to our protection.
The Unschooling Caucus: TUC seeks to work with prospective teachers, current educators, researchers, policy advocates, parents/caretakers, and other dreamers who understand the limitations of schooling. With this foundational tenet, the Unschooling Caucus advances the movement for school abolition and enlivens educational pathways that support youth to embrace their sacred purpose and self-determined futures.
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