THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ASSEMBLY

Cities, Towns, and lands in California stretching from Stockton to Bakersfield

Vision and Strategies

With the added challenge of working entirely over zoom, this Assembly began and completed the first stage of its work in 2020 by identifying a direction forward for their $1.625M. Their direction represents a balance of infusing dollars directly into the people, collectives, and organizations that are already doing the work, in tandem with a coordinated set of weaving, relations building, and cross-pollinating activities for tending averatile network of folks in the Valley. Working with an established set of values both in how to work together and in how to distribute the funds, this Assembly was able to determine a few key ingredients to strengthening creative placekeeping in the Valley.

Communal Self Determination
Remembering the Margins through Healing Land, Cultures, and People

In 2021, this Assembly will activate it’s 2-pronged strategy which begins with entrusting each Assembly member as a steward of a set allocation of funds and will continue through Network Building to further pollinate, grow relationships, and center the wisdom that exists in the Valley.

Follow more of the San Joaquin Valley’s story through the lens of Assembly members and commissioned Creative Documenters, Tianna Arredondo and Orion Camero here.