Dear Beloved Community

First, I want to thank you for taking this journey together. These past few weeks have been very difficult for many of us. We have watched bombs sent to our elected officials and three mass shootings play out in the news against black men, a jewish community, and now in our own backyard in Thousand Oaks with our youth. This was the 307th mass shooting this year. Over the last week the Trump administration has used their defeat in the midterm elections to continue an agenda of division and distrust by continuing to attack people of color in their election bids, signing executive orders to harm asylum seekers, and raising racial profiling to an entirely new level. Today, thousands in our SoCal community are being displaced due to fires that are spreading west of us. It all seems quite exhausting and overwhelming.  Read More