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We hope to welcome home Tule Elk and Beaver to the watershed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1631625075251-GLGKXL5SPC4WFE8DFRA8/SoilHealth.jpg Nourish DMC is exploring the interactions between the soil, plant and human microbiota for multi-systems approaches to health. https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/contact daily 0.75 2025-01-14 https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/the-circle daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/b04b6d2f-5dda-4417-8120-1b6f1464b698/IMG_4571.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/5e153917-c845-4ad2-b2f7-b2dacc95a323/IMG_3109.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/245ce129-828e-41c0-b255-b6f779a78211/IMG_0508.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/23ee9ee2-9c7e-4caa-b3c6-57097806d7c2/IMG_0584.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/98f412ab-2a83-46cb-a77f-fbda497d4b91/CEE8FAA1-7D30-476F-A600-191F98535783.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/49ba25dc-7faa-4557-a929-7bec5927dd47/IMG_3022+2.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/d3889f00-bd1d-41d6-9313-c103b00b4373/IMG_3103+2.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/39fc2af9-eaef-479b-8950-bb58b619f40b/IMG_3006+2.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/94dd08fd-dbbe-42e0-8765-97d8346cee46/IMG_4921.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/782af6be-d77b-44bb-863d-928070a0077a/IMG_0519.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/921be2e7-1bed-465c-a3d0-4e4cfcbb7565/IMG_1191.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/fb20e07c-3704-4d0d-90e3-bed064ff856f/IMG_0045.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/cf5e2369-3c95-44df-ae2b-db98ab30ddab/IMG_0578.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/e62d406c-9cdc-4fa4-9b14-5954c4198879/IMG_0599.JPG The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/3cf6e68a-2548-4db7-8c89-764aa07522b2/IMG_9235.jpeg The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/626403c0-374e-4f16-86f8-4fad023e9e23/IMG_9891.jpeg The Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/bc9174ee-0ea3-4315-8886-818931a4a916/RUPABIO.jpg The Circle - Rupa Marya Rupa Marya Dr. Rupa Marya  is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. She is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. At the invitation of Lakȟota health leaders, she is helping to set up the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic and Farm at Standing Rock to decolonize medicine and food. Dr Marya is also co-founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle, an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story and learning. Working with Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, she developed the Farming is Medicine project, where farmers are recast as ecological stewards under Indigenous leadership, and food is liberated from the market economy. Dr Marya was recognized in 2021 with the Women Leaders in Medicine Award by the American Medical Student Association. She was a reviewer of the American Medical Association's Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity. Dr. Marya was appointed by Governor Newsom to the Healthy California for All Commission, to advance a model for universal healthcare in California. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” Her book on the health impacts of colonialism, which articulates a bold new paradigm for diagnosis--Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice--written with Raj Patel will be out internationally August 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/a1e2cbf6-ce0e-4680-8b72-97bc08a877e3/DSC_0794.jpeg The Circle - Lola Violet Isabelle Office Manager Lola is of Northern Pomo, Kletsel Dehe Wintu, Hungarian, and Latinx descent born and raised in Mendocino County of Northern California. She is a land steward, activist, native dancer, and basket weaver deeply rooted in her ancestral traditions. Her work centers on Native plant medicine, ecological restoration, land-based healing practices, and the revitalization of sustainable food systems. Lola is a passionate advocate for food sovreignty and healing through relationship with land, culture, and community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/457da8ab-6375-4b4b-83e5-0b80c894a9ff/kevin+bio+photo.jpg The Circle - Kevin Francisco Corona Farm Crew Lead- Rooftop Farm I'm from Anaheim, Orange County. My Mexican immigrant parents had me in the soil early on; I learned what work meant by helping my dad with landscaping on weekends from an early age. That’s where my perspective on hard work and dealing with the living world (aka real world) comes from. I'm passionate about plants, science, and food. I judge a taqueria by its salsa, not its tortillas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/f4a7e7f6-fed7-4228-abaf-1069e2790f3b/IMG_0910.jpg The Circle - Olivia Farm Operations Manager and Development Assistant Olivia is a farmer and artist. She has experience in vegetable and floral production, orchard management, and soil care. She believes that food, fibers, and flowers have the ability to heal and inspire. She is passionate about tending to the land and rebuilding relationships to the earth through farming and art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/696976fc-2de2-446b-948c-d154251aec9a/20101007_FeedingTheSpirit_64.jpg The Circle - Valerie Segrest Valerie Segrest, an enrolled member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, and works as a Native Nutrition Educator and is the Co-Founder of Tahoma Peak Solutions, a consulting company that specializes in strategic communications and food systems strategies that serve tribal communities. She has a Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition and Health Sciences from Bastyr University and a Master of Arts in Environment and Community. Ms. Segrest has dedicated her work in the field of Native American Nutrition towards the efforts of the food sovereignty movement rooted in education, awareness and overcoming barriers to accessing traditional foods for tribal communities throughout North America. Ms. Segrest has co-authored several publications, including “Feeding Seven Generations: A Salish Cookbook” and “Indigenous Home Cooking: Menus Inspired by the Ancestors.” Valerie aims to inspire and enlighten others about the importance of a nutrient-dense diet through a culturally appropriate, common sense approach to eating. http://www.tedxrainier.com/speakers/valerie-segrest/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/6f566126-8bf1-4ba1-a91a-2e3de13c6348/80AE70FE-88E3-4BF1-AC9E-C70D6B44B3FF_1_105_c.jpg The Circle - Charlene Eigen-Vasquez Charlene Eigen-Vasquez, J.D. is of Ohlone descent, from the village of Chitactac. She is dedicated to land back initiatives, land preservation, land restoration, cultural revitalization and environmental justice because she feels that these initiatives have a direct impact on physical and mental health. As a mother and grandmother, she completed a law degree so that she might better serve Indigenous communities. Today her focus is on regenerative leadership strategies, leveraging her legal skills, and mediation skills to advocate for Indigenous interests, negotiate agreements and build relational bridges. She is an acknowledged peacemaker, trained by Tribal Supreme Court Justices. Charlene is the former CEO and Director of Self-Governance for the Healing and Reconciliation Institute. Charlene also serves as Chairwoman of the Confederation of Ohlone People, Co-Chair of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council and Board Vice President for the Santa Clara Valley Indian Health Center. Charlene was recently brought into the Planet Women’s 100 Women Pathway, a cohort designed to increase the number of diverse women leaders at the helm of the environmental movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/9911ff47-9a0f-436f-bce8-db475d72e56d/HEADSHOT+13+-+COLOR+-+3_4+BODY+-+SMILE+-+ON+ROCK+-+MICHAEL+FOSTER.jpg The Circle - Michael Foster Michael Leonardo Foster, EdD, MPH, is of African American and Okinawan descent. Michael is committed to social justice. As a former teacher, he intentionally supported the educational strivings of children of color in marginalized communities. As his career progressed, Michael entered Public Health as the African American Program & Policy Specialist at the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, where his worked impacted African Americans, in general, and African American gay/men-who-sex-with men (MSM), specifically, populations that have been and continue to be the hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic. While at the Office of AIDS, Michael was also the Health Disparities Coordinate, where he focused on all populations disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS. Michael is a consultant for the Santa Fe Indian School, a position that began in 2002. In this role, Michael evaluates programs to address the unique needs of Native Americans throughout the Southwest, initially, and later, throughout the country. More recently, as the Owner/Chief Evaluation of Evaluation for Program Improvement Consulting (EPIC) Services, Michael supports the work of professionals in Re-entry, Restorative Justice, Transformative Justice, Indigenous Peacemaking, and Land-based Projects. In this role, Michael provides his clients with various services, including, but not limited to, funds development, evaluation, capacity building, and technical assistance. Michael’s goal is to amplify the voices of populations that have historically been silenced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/10a331c5-bb4f-47fd-bbbe-096c38e839e7/image_6487327.jpg The Circle - Walter Riley Walter Riley was born in 1944, number 9 of 11 children born to a farming family in Durham County, North Carolina. His family farmed until he was about 6 years old. He grew up in the Jim Crow south and in his early teens, Walter became active in the Civil Rights Movement organizing voter registration, sit-ins, jobs campaigns, and in his late teens became Field Secretary for CORE (Congress for Racial Equality), got married and became a father. He moved to the Bay Area in the 1960s where he became active in the political, social justice movements. Walter is a long-time community activist and civil rights attorney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/2e2aa181-9f1e-432b-b627-7a5eaafa61c3/IMG_4609-1.jpg The Circle - Tiffany Adams Arts Advisor Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi/ Koyoomk’awi/Nisenan) is a multidisciplinary artist, maker, and activist who believes that place-based visual representation is inherent to healing, identity, and tribal sovereignty. For Adams, cultivating self-determination through an authentic visual story of a place is a mechanism for healing and positive identity, is critical to (re)clamation. Identity reclamation practice is central to the advancement of California Indigenous stories which she seeks to advance in her work and daily life. Adams received her BFA from the Institute of American Indians Arts and Indigenous Liberal Studies minor. Her work spans painting, jewelry, performance, regalia, clothing, and California red abalone work in regalia and contemporary finery. Tiffany’s work has been exhibited at the R.C. Gorman, MoCNA Santa Fe, and SWAIA Blue Ribbon recipient. Tiffany’s commission pieces include the cover work for Ope’ by Yulu Ewis, Sacramento Native American Health Center 2020 mural, California Indian Legal Services Abalone Women (2020) painting, and National Conference on Race and Ethnicity shirt designs. Her art has been shown in museums and galleries for 10+ years throughout California and SantaFe, New Mexico. You can find her work at tiffanyadamsartist.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/f0a71579-1904-414b-a9f5-72279df06415/Allison_006.JPG The Circle - Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Storyweaver Following former fieldworker retraining in Santa Paula and Ventura in the mid-1980s, Allison began teaching, and she is now a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Hedge Coke is a 2022-2023 Mellon Dean’s Professor and affiliated faculty in the UCR School of Medicine (narrative medicine) and in the proposed Department of Society, Environment & Health Equity (SEHE). The social media hashtag #poempromptsforthepandemic hosts hundreds of original prompts she crafted as public outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mixed-descent career community advocate and organizer, teaching in urban, rural, reservation schools, community centers, migrant camps, incarceration and health facilities, she most recently directed UCR’s Writers Week Festival, the Along the Chaparral/Pūowaina project, and the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Retreat and Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1631627229267-AKLJATS7C0VLCQ4CMKYN/renee-photo-gimp-300-dpi-scale-200-bright-60-contrast-50.jpg The Circle - Renee Baldocchi Story and Arts Development Support Reneé Marie Baldocchi, of Mexican/Italian descent was born on Ramaytush Ohlone Territory in 1961. She is an artist, arts activist, grant-writer, event producer, and curator. She runs Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations, a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection of the Arts and partners with San Francisco Bay Area artists and organizations focused on social justice, public health, sustainable living practices, and hope-inspired visions. Baldocchi is the former Director of Public Programs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (2005-2016) where she collaborated with BIPOC community members and presented inclusive multicultural community driven programs. Her advocacy provided funding, fellowships, and residencies to emerging, nationally, and internationally recognized artists of many disciplines. Her work of bridging the traditional museum perspective with community is most recognized in the long-running series, Friday Nights at the de Young. She and San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck co-founded the de Young Museum Native Advisory Council in 2005. She learned from and worked with Indigenous leaders who curated and presented public programs in an effort to educate the staff and visitors on the urgency of decolonization. https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/work-with-us daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1624261605980-BO9T6B6LO8Z96IMOXEI1/IMG_4946.jpg Work with Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1624261629985-55M1G535JSDO1ZEACKRK/201119_Barn+front.jpg Work with Us https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/home daily 1.0 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1c0d4010-c4b9-4bfa-8a74-09c121474c29/TKAW.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/5527fb85-e483-449c-8db0-a829e2ead47e/DMCTansparentBackgroundCrop.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1631825933142-83IXDPI4EW5A8BY960IO/pict0031_orig.jpg Home - Nourish Farming is Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1626336860055-THZQ7X0944QIE9QP7ZEI/water.jpg Home - Heal Decolonizing Food and Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/d2f39792-8f4f-4f90-84e6-152a796d891a/IMG_2477.jpg Home - Restore All of our relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1632341559730-J60GBY3UPBYPISPDI9SL/IMG_0585.JPG Home - Story Knowing who we are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1629503094054-XEVHLTQE377YH7IN2LLF/Nest.jpg Home - Learn/Unlearn Seeding the Future. https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/story daily 0.75 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1632750369398-BI4RRH56PFB2WEE3BD1M/623CF58C-669D-4EFA-B5F9-BACFB6DA49C0.JPG Story - Make it stand out Tongvan elder/artist and DMC Advisor L Frank Manriquez with Sage LaPena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1632349886592-WYOBN2VPUOO0H3XAM67U/IMG_0962.jpg Story - Make it stand out Indigenous Chef and DMC Advisor Crystal Wahpepah brings Food as Medicine to the Tree Planting Ceremony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1632339911653-BFAMW8U3HYOS7EV7F4D8/mddf_tree_planting-184.jpg Story - Make it stand out Ohlone/Salinan elder Gregg Castro & Costanoan Ohlone/Chumash artist Kanyon Sayers-Rood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1632340409896-NKF7GLQEX1PMCTC94KZ7/IMG_4494.jpg Story - Make it stand out DMC Founder Physician/Musician Rupa Marya with Filmmaker/Activist/Musician Boots Riley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1c0764c5-82e8-4fbc-bff2-500493e6986a/A0A83132-A637-4B01-802A-0B2286252C26.jpeg Story - Make it stand out Artists gather for the first Secret Sunset Salon on the Rooftop Medicine Farm https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/learn-unlearn daily 0.75 2022-09-29 https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/restore daily 0.75 2023-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/05ffae33-9589-4f2d-9722-4a21bd6d9e94/IMG_2643.jpg Restore - Make it stand out Director of the Landback Program Charlene Eigen-Vasquez with Storyweaver Allison Hedge Coke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1632745981768-O6W0WL7SLPSDHXWQ8YQW/IMG_3188.JPG Restore - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/heal daily 0.75 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/b05b3663-fc3b-445c-8085-da6a9b1f1f5f/2021-12-19+14.12.20+HDR.jpg Heal - Make it stand out UCSF Frontline Health workers at the Farm Clare Van de Mark, RN, Rupa Marya, MD, Rosa Villarroel, RN, Ashley Bernon, RN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/1631802853557-G9ZYGKN695MSGYCCQ4TR/mddf_tree_planting-293.jpg Heal DMC Healers—Certified Herbalist/Plant Medicine Doctor Sage LaPena and Physician/Musician Rupa Marya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/34522f04-a8b3-4c7d-8d8b-bc46f6fd3d2e/Colonization.JPG Heal Root Cause Analysis for Diseases that Plague Colonized People and Places https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/volunteer daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c7a859f83df77aae66ff34/530da509-89f4-4a7a-8f9b-07b15cf8a284/Volunteers+at+RMF+by+Tom+Tomkinson https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/store daily 0.75 2023-06-21