Whole Communities Project is proud to announce our magazine
“HOME is Where the LOVE Is.”
This magazine is for people firmly entrenched in their quest for liberation and adamant about bringing their formations and communities along. In it, you will find in-depth stories from leaders within the Whole Communities Project ecosystem and their offerings on how to deepen your commitment to liberatory leadership. We also provide tools and resources to support you on your path.
We make this offering with full knowledge that it comes in perilous times and that the call for leaders to meet this urgency is high. Stopping and considering how to deepen our commitment to liberatory leadership is not a quick, easy, or convenient process. However, if you take nothing else from this magazine, we hope you find community and a feeling that you are not alone within these pages.
About Whole Communities Project: Launched in the Fall of 2023, the Whole Communities Project is a collaboration between the Center for Third World Organizing, The Fund for Liberatory Practice launched by the LeadersTrust, and Leadership Learning Community. Our mission is to connect liberation-centered leaders and organizations to life-affirming resources that support their emergence and sustainability in the work. To that end, we curate leadership development programs, funding, convenings, webinars, and communities of practice for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color leaders and practitioners.
We are grateful for the work of the Liberatory Leadership Project and its partners for deeply exploring liberatory leadership and providing the foundations of this work. The Whole communities Project was made possible by Black women who worked closely with cohort members, workshop participants, and grantees and remained steadfast in their commitment to liberation and transformation, namely:
Holly Delaney Cole
Iman Mills Gordon
Sadia Hassan
Justine Ingram
Nikita Mitchell
Kierra Sims-Drake
Ericka Stallings
Trish Adobea Tchume
Chinyere Tutashinda
Kharyshi Wiginton
Ashlee Wimberly
In the words of Iyanla Vanzant, “Inside of you, there is a place called home.” Through this Zine, we asked amazing liberatory leaders to open your homes and show us yourselves. You did just that! We would like to thank all of the participants who contributed to this project.
Mizan
Sizwe
Greg Hodge
Elissa Sloan Perry
Felicia Griffin
Zulayka Santiago
Ditra Edwards
Falilah Aisha Bilal
A special thank you to Noni Limar, the Creative Director, and Devan King, the Graphic Designer, who listened to our stories and curated this magazine which invites all of us back to liberation.
