#016: Reclaiming Placemaking for Liberation with Ridhi D'Cruz

Inside Community Podcast

We're kicking off Season 2 with a pair of episodes about Placemaking, how we design and consider creating environments for healthy thriving humans. In this second episode, Ridhi D'Cruz approaches the topic from a liberatory and healing perspective.

ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender queer Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India and moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist. their life artistry roots at the intersections of place, healing, design and creativity. they have dedicated over a decade of their life to designing community processes that cultivate liberatory and healing senses of place. they strive to honor and benefit the sacred and stolen lands of the Chinook people and several other tribes both recognized and unrecognized that they are a guest upon.

ridhi has cultivated a place justice practice through more than a decade of service on Chinook lands. Currently, they co-facilitate an annual herbal immersion program for BIPOC called the Moon & Mirror Apprenticeship Program, are an nature educator with and for QT/BIPOC community through Wild Diversity and humbly support various place justice projects including the Native Gathering Garden at Cully Park and the Justice for Justice for Keaton Otis Memorial Art Project. you can find them online via their website ridhidcruz.net, on IG as @ridhidcruz and email them at [e-mail]

Ridhi's FIC course, Reclaiming Permaculture and Placemaking for Liberation starts May 8, 2023

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