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We are a creative collective of organizers dedicated to empowering social movements and frontline communities globally. As conveners, we co-create spaces fostering collaboration, amplifying voices, and driving action. Our expertise in ecosystem analysis, participatory action research, and media creation uncover insights and craft solutions for our communities. We design communication strategies and storytelling initiatives, utilizing visual storytelling to highlight narratives across continents. Our impactful projects include transformative media campaigns, cultural shifts through participatory design, and building infrastructures that sustain grassroots efforts. We weave together stories, tools, and relationships for shared futures.

 
 

Master Participatory Facilitator, artist, storyteller, Creative co-designer, connector of Ideas and People, agency and resilience builder, relational organizer, Ecosystemic strategist

Storyteller, Curriculum Creator, Communications Capacity Builder, Global Peace Journalist and Trainer, Empathetic Dialogue Facilitator

Visual Story Weaver, Graphic Recorder Turning Conversations into Action, Community Builder, Social Justice Activator, Artist for action

Participatory Media Master, holder of sacred stories, podcast creator, ethnobiologist, Indigenous Story Weaver, Open-hearted Facilitator, Deep listener

 

Movement Archivist, Participatory Researcher, Organizer at the intersection of Gender, Youth, & Climate,  Evidence-Based Policy strategist

Resilience cultivator, Participatory researcher, Facilitator, Critical pedagogy designer, Sustainability Strategist

 

Digital Organizer, Intersectional Innovator, Trans-Local Network Weaver, Data-driven Visual Strategist, Climate and Gender Justice Expert

Feminist Futurist, Neuroaffirming Coach of Champions, Intersectional Leadership Whisperer, Generative Community Creator, Multi-stakeholder Catalyst, Emergence Ideator

our board

Eva Armour has spent the past 20 years building movements for peace and justice. She has dedicated her life to working with communities in conflict to envision and work towards a more just and peaceful reality.

She has created every job she has ever held, each born from seeing and being willing to meet a pressing need.

Eva currently serves as the chief impact officer with Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit working at the intersection of leadership development and conflict transformation with communities in the Middle East.

Eva believes deeply in non-hierarchical structures, collective liberation, and community-building as the foundation for social justice organizing. She gets the chance to actively practice that by organizing for prison abolition through her involvement in Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) in Boston.

She has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, featured in Le Figaro and a best-selling book featuring rising social entrepreneurs, and served on the Board of Directors of Empathy for Peace and the podcast This American Teenage Life. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and finds herself at home in London, Israel/Palestine, and New York City. She lives for her two children, Annie and Amos; writers like June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Arundhati Roy, and Shailja Patel, who expand and evolve her imagination for a better world; and the pursuit of all things hygge.

Johanna Mustafa is a Palestinian racial justice community organizer and movement builder. She led grassroots organizing efforts as the Advocacy Specialist for the Campaign to Take on Hate of ACCESS in Anaheim, California. Her work was centered around the Muslim Ban, racial profiling, and hate crimes against the Arab and Muslim communities in Southern California. Before joining ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services), she participated in the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) Transformative Leaders Fellowship with the Arab American Civic Council (AACC) were she led civic engagement programs in the Greatest Los Angeles area. She also served as a Field Organizer with the Arab American Institute (AAI), where she spearheaded the Yalla Vote initiative in California and mobilized Arab voters in the 2018 election cycle. She continues to work towards advancing marginalized communities through community organizing, advocacy, public policy, and leadership development. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Arab American Civic Council. She is also a steering committee member with Transforming Justice Orange County, a local organizing group addressing conditions of injustice and harm through the criminal punishment system and prison industrial complex, locally and broadly. Johanna received her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Law and Society from the University of Southern California in 2016.

Robert "Roman" Haferd is a restorative justice practitioner, civil rights lawyer, organizer, and cultural innovator. He has supported and built movements, often in the background, as he has focused on advocating and building capacity with marginalized families.

Roman co-founded and is co-owner of the Roots to Sky Sanctuary and Healing Center in Thomas, Maryland, a BIPOC-founded and led 125-acre regenerative farm and sanctuary. A place for gathering decades of collective expertise in education, humanities, health and wellness, entrepreneurship, outdoor leadership, activism, food justice, restorative justice, and healing arts programming to create a multi-use property serving local counties and our existing communities from metropolitan areas.

Previously, Roman served as the Restorative Justice Coordinator for the District of Columbia's Attorney General, where he helped create a first-of-its-kind restorative justice program inside Washington D.C.’s justice department.  In this role, he is the team’s primary point of contact with system stakeholders. He speaks regularly on restorative justice while facilitating a full caseload of restorative justice conferences referred by local prosecutors and other community partners in the District.

Mr. Haferd is a native of Akron, Ohio, with roots and relatives in the farming trade across the mid-Ohio region.  He spends as much time as possible enjoying nature and making moves to good music.