Who Is Ayisah?

 

I am a African American/Native American who has an affinity for helping people. Growing up I traveled to many places and visited different cultures like the Lakota Natives in South Dakota & Mayans in Guatemala and learned a lot from them. Visiting and seeing how poor the Lakota lived on their own land unable to grow their own food and how the Mayan kids had to skip going to school just to try and sell things with their parents to tourist to make money was one way I found my love of helping people.

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In high school I started the Native American Club to bring awareness and show the students modern versions of the Natives.

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After high school I joined AmeriCorps NCCC and did various service projects around the country for 10 months like building houses, working in a children’s hospital with terminally ill kids, land restoration and disaster relief.

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I then came home and worked at the DC based national food justice/agro-policy organization called the Rural Coalition for 3 years. During my time there I helped deliver sign on letters to congress, planned events and tended to the ins and outs of the DC office.

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While working for Rural Coalition I also came in contact with Rooted In Community and went to a few of their summer summits. Rooted In Community (RIC) is a youth food justice leadership organization that works to help youth become food justice leaders in their communities.

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I currently work with RIC and working on writing my blog and filming Youtube videos. I work with the DC based group of Ecospiritu who works with women around spirituality, Mother Earth and art. I also am helping and working with Spirit of Resilience Radio which is generates a stream of consciousness that ushers in a new paradigm for living on Earth. Our work reclaims women’s power and the power of Black and Indigenous communities to heal, function at full capacity and bring forth positive change in THIS AND future generations. We partner with those who are truly aligned with our mission AND who work from a heart-centered space. We are intergenerational women learning to lift ourselves while growing stronger as sisters and Earthkeepers.