Y’all, in full transparency, the transition into Fall hasn’t been easy for a lot of us. Life has been lifing heavily and at times showing up in unexpected ways this year: some of them beautiful, some of them heartbreaking. It feels like we’ve been saying “these past few years have been hard” for a long…

When asked to write about collective power, my initial thoughts take me back to how I experienced collective care during my childhood. When my mother became sick from cancer and was paralyzed on her left side, my grandparents and aunts from the Philippines came to live with my family here in the U.S. to take…

Over three years into this pandemic (with the majority of SJF staff still working from home!), it is a rare treat to experience, real-time and multiplied by every face we had the pleasure to greet, the brilliance, humor, dedication, and passion of our community. The SJF staff sends a big THANK YOU to everyone who…