Last month, New Breath Foundation held its annual celebration and awards ceremony, Collective Liberation 2024, where they featured a panel including three NBF Community Advisory Committee members: Lon Chhay of Asian Solidarity Collective; Leesa Nomura of California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and F.O.U. Movement; and Ny Nourn of Asian Prisoner Support Committee and Survived…
This blog post is the third in a three-part series focusing on our three main values at New Breath Foundation: Collective Learning, Collective Healing, and Collective Liberation. At NBF, Collective Liberation means freedom for all groups, recognizing that oppression is intersectional and all our oppressions are tied together. We can only achieve Collective Liberation when…
This blog post is the second in a three-part series focusing on our three main values at New Breath Foundation: Collective Learning, Collective Healing, and Collective Liberation. At NBF, our definition of Collective Healing is when a group or community acknowledges and addresses shared traumas, injustices, or wounds to foster resilience, reconciliation, and mutual well-being…
Mi mayor aprendizaje a sido que juntos podemos lograr grandes cosas, atravez del apollo mutuo aprendí a desarrollar destrezas de expresión en mi persona. My biggest learning has been that together we can achieve great things, and through mutual support, I learned to express myself. –Aida, a formerly detained mother who attended the Pilgrimage to…
“True liberation comes from recognizing and embracing our interconnectedness.” -Yuri Kochiyama February is significant not only because we celebrate Black History Month, but also because we join countries around the world in celebrating the Lunar New Year. I can’t think of a better time to reflect on the importance of racial solidarity than on the…
Last month, we met with our Operations & Development Coordinator, Thy Vu, to help us kick off the new year. Thy shared about how she came to work at New Breath Foundation, what kind of work she does as Operations and Development Coordinator, and what she looks forward to in 2024. Thy is based in…