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This weekend’s 6th Annual DGA Latino Summit, BUILT TO LAST, left me super inspired!!! Some notes: The director has to le...
10/06/2026

This weekend’s 6th Annual DGA Latino Summit, BUILT TO LAST, left me super inspired!!! Some notes:

The director has to lead by creating the trust and space for everyone to bring their best.

Be kind.
Be electric.
Be fun.
Be generative.

Jessica Hernandez, an amazing editor, said: “Tell me your dream, and I’ll see if I can make it in the edit.”

Actors Belissa Escobedo, Justina Machado, and Jesse Garcia described what they love to feel from a director: I got this. This is what we’re gonna do. And always: story first.

Even though I’m not DGA yet, I just want to say thank you to the Latino Committee and everyone who created such a beautiful event!

🎥🎬

10/02/2026

Nature is speaking to us. Are we listening?

The Tongues of Fishes
A participatory underwater climate opera
by composer Carolyn Chen

Upon sparing a fish’s life, a fisherman receives a magical pearl from the Dragon King, allowing her to understand the language of fishes. Beneath the surface, she hears warnings of ecological harm and disasters to come — warnings she must carry back to the human world and somehow persuade it to hear.

Explore Carolyn Chen’s wonderful work:
walkingmango.wordpress.com

09/10/2026

Data can change who gets funded. In this final part of the chapter 2 (of 5) story, the purpose of rigorous evaluation becomes clear. If community-defined practices can demonstrate that they work, organizations are better positioned to compete for future public and private dollars. That turns evidence into something very practical: the ability to sustain the work.

CRDP asked communities to innovate and in the process helped build the evidence that allowed those ideas to flourish.

Chapter 2 · Episode 8 — Community Voices

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09/08/2026

What happens when community knowledge is taken seriously enough to be evaluated? CRDP was built around more than delivering services. It was also designed to test whether community-defined practices could produce evidence strong enough to stand alongside other recognized approaches. That meant bringing together lived experience, cultural knowledge, and rigorous evaluation.

The question was can we prove it works?

Chapter 2 · Episode 7 of 8 — Community Voices

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08/28/2026

What comes before access? Trust. In this chapter from CRDP: A Decade of Community-Driven Change, the conversation begins with a simple but essential idea: if people don’t trust the systems or people offering care, meaningful engagement becomes much harder.

For Black women and other communities that have historically been underserved, that trust cannot be assumed. The most hopeful part of this excerpt is where the story lands: “We know what to do.” Communities are already identifying what they need to reduce isolation, strengthen connection, and restore hope.

Chapter 2 · Episode 6 — Community Voices
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08/24/2026

Programs don’t change people as much as relationships change people. Effective care has to make sense in the world people actually live in.

When expectations don’t align with someone’s lived experience, cultural values, or community, even a well-intentioned program can miss the person it was created to serve.

CRDP helped create space for communities to develop solutions for themselves—and to build the relationships that make those solutions meaningful.

08/21/2026

What happens when communities are given the resources and time to prove what they already know?

CRDP Phase I began with $63 million and an unprecedented approach: fund community-based organizations serving African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander, and LGBTQ+ communities, then evaluate whether their interventions actually worked.

Ten years later, the statewide evaluation came back with evidence of meaningful impact on people’s mental health.

This excerpt connects the original experiment to what was ultimately learned from it.

08/21/2026

At first, he didn’t realize the strength and weight of what CRDP could become.

Then came the evaluations, the convenings, and the chance to witness organizations doing this work inside their own communities.

What changed his mind was seeing the transformation.

Full doc:
www.SacredArtThieves.com/documentary

08/20/2026

What changes when people can actually see themselves in the places meant to serve them? Culturally meaningful care affects whether people feel comfortable accessing services at all. Watch the complete documentary:
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08/19/2026

Culture matters. Culture heals.
One of the ideas that kept surfacing: meaningful care has to begin by actually seeing the communities it is intended to serve.

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