Se’Si’Le “Indigenous-led movement for Mother Earth” - an organization/team that Callie and Arlen deeply believe in. Callie has a strong love and admiration for Orcas and has been very inspired by their work. Read their mission statement below or check out their website: https://se-si-le.org/Se’Si’Le (saw-see’-law) is the Lummi Indian word for “our grandmother.” Our Mission is to utilize Indigenous ancestral knowledge for the benefit of our Mother Earth, Indigenous lifeways, and for future generations. We provide protective management strategies and plans for Indigenous sacred sites, areas, resources, and landscapes, and invoke, preserve, and promote understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing the nature of Nature.

Home-Y Made Meals is a mutual aid organization which utilizes community to serve homemade meals to low-income communities in Los Angeles everyday. Home-Y practices “relational work in food justice, prioritizing accessibility and adaptability to protect the ones we serve and the ones serving”. This organization is deeply close to our hearts as we cooked for them during the pandemic. While in quarantine it felt like a sense of connection helping us to prioritize and act on our belief that everyone deserves access to nourishment and care. Read there mission statement below or visit their website to find out more: https://www.homeymademeals.com/“HMM is a 100% people-powered initiative adapted to the safety measures required during Covid-19. Within the safety and comfort of their homes, volunteers from all around Southern California prepare, deliver, and serve homemade meals every day. Partnering with shelters and coalitions, we have moved past merely existing as a project. We are a community— a network of networks— a family founded and bounded by food.By serving homemade meals to low-income communities every day, Home-y Made Meals seizes the power of food to nourish our unhoused neighbors, move people towards action, and synthesize tangible solutions supplanting segregation. We practice relational work in food justice, prioritizing accessibility and adaptability to protect the ones we serve and the ones serving.”