Why Lachiwana?
Lachiwana is a 501c(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to disseminate resources and information about creating comprehensive community-led ecological care to those impacted by systemic exclusion and invalidation.
We prioritize the experiences of people who are most marginalized by the oppressions of white supremacy, racism, poverty, transphobia, ableism, and restrictive policies. We catch people through the cracks of the medical, the capital, and the political system.
At a Glance…
Programs
Body and Family Autonomy

Major life stages and transitions such as birth, death, hormonal shifts and gender transitions are integral to the human experience. We provide training and hands-on care to healers, doulas, midwives, and people going through major transitions. We aim to shift culture towards bodily sovereignty for gender-expansive people and women who have limited access to resources. Lachiwana’s network of healers and activists ensure that people can access culturally competent care during their transitions.
Land-Based Libration
Being in right-relation to land will take generations of re-imagining and practice. Our Rooted Dreams program is a Queer, gender-expansive land acquisition effort aimed at building a better, less extractive future. We partner with California Fish and Wildlife to raise Rainbow Trout in the community, hosting children, elders, and people to witness the lifecycle of these miraculous fish before releasing them in the waters of California. Lachiwana also participates in several fire-remediation and storm clean up projects throughout the year.

Financial Literacy

Lachiwana is developing the Financial Literacy Program with an each-one-teach-one approach to educating Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer Midwives, Activists, and Leaders how to create longevity in their financial health. From individual budgets to collective strategic financial plans, our constituents receive personalized care in navigating capital. All participants in these programs come from poverty, are Black, Indigenous, or Grassroots organizers.
Somatic Embodiment and Healing
Two-Spirit and Queer inclusivity, even in Ceremonial spaces are few and far between. Lachiwana educates established centers of ceremonial medicines to better serve and receive two-spirit peoples and our complexities. Releasing misogyny and white supremacy from our bodies allows us to fully experience healing. This includes body-workshops, ancestral healing modalities, wild food harvests, and community-led-holistic-gender-affirming surgery recovery care.

Incubation of Values-Alighted Projects

Lachiwana offers back-end office support to values-alighted projects which opens capacity for those projects to build holistic, relationship-centered, organizations and movements. This allows the projects to grow sturdy roots, cultivate skills like budgeting, fundraising, bookkeeping, human resources, payroll/benefits management, and other core services.

Annual Reports
Check out how Lachiwana continues to evolve throughout the years.
Lachiwana
is a non-profit organization whose mission is to disseminate resources and information about creating comprehensive community-led ecological care to those impacted by systemic exclusion and invalidation.
Contact us
Email [email protected]
Tax ID Number
88-33-09053