Community Care: Prentis Hemphill & Francisca Porchas Coronado

CTZN

This conversation was a part of the 2020 CTZN Summit, a gathering of courageous conversation to explore how to navigate this moment and create a politics of community care. And this episode with Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado really challenges us to dig deep and reckon with how we got here and how we can show up for one another.

Prentis Hemphill is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and practitioner, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing. Prentis spent many years working with powerful movements and organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. Prentis is the founder of the Black Embodiment Initiative and host of the Finding Our Way Podcast featuring brilliant embodied leaders like adrienne maree brown, Sonya Renee Taylor, Mia Birdsong and more.

Francisca Porchas Coronado is a Mexican immigrant, Chicana, feminist, and former organizer with over 17 years of of movement experience. Francisca has worked on issues of civil rights, environmental and climate justice, criminalization, and immigration at the intersection of race and class at a local and national level. She has been one of the leading voices against deportations of migrants in the country. Her work is rooted in the belief that low income people of color, especially Black and Latinx people have the power to transform themselves, each other and their communities. Francisca is the Founder and Director of the Latinx Therapists Action Network, a wellness project that centers the healing of migrant peoples on the front lines of the immigrant rights movement. She is currently a practitioner in-training of Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Healing Program. Ms. Porchas Coronado has been initiated into the ancient, indigenous Yoruba tradition of IFA for over a decade and is currently a priestess in training.

In our conversation, we talked about the practice of showing up, living into accountability, relinquishing rightness, movement as healing and what its gonna take to build a culture of community care. At one point, Prentis said:

This moment is asking you to change. Are you willing to be a new person, now?

I think that is the question that we can all take with us. Listen to this conversation as many times as you need to live it.

Connect with Prentis Hemphill:

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Connect with Francisca Porchas Coronado:

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