Posts Tagged ‘Wea Team’
Meet Our Summer Intern!
We love summer for so many reasons. It’s the time of year when seeds planted in the spring blossom, bloom and grow strong, and it’s a time to prepare for the warm gatherings and occasions for sharing that seem to characterize the fall. At WEA, the summer is when we tend partnerships, plan for celebrations…
Read MoreMeet our Fall Interns!
As we all shut down our computers and close our office doors to get ready for the holiday weekend, we at WEA are once again reminded of how so much of our work would not be possible without the support of our rockstar team of interns. So to kick off our gratitude-sharing festivities, we’re sending…
Read MoreMeet Our Summer Intern!
We don’t know what we’d do without all the wonderful interns who have given of themselves to support our work over the past few years. That’s why we’re so excited to introduce you to the amazing intern working with us here in Berkeley this summer! She’s a rockstar, and we feel so lucky to have…
Read More#Proud2BIndigenous Week
Did you know this week was First Peoples Worldwide’s Proud To Be Indigenous week? WEA’s Advocacy Network Coordinator, Kahea Pacheco, shares why she’s so proud to be Indigenous: “Because it grounds me in my history, my legacy, and my responsibility. Hawaiians are a strong and resilient people that took care of community and land, and…
Read MoreLeading from a Place of History and Learning
By Kahea Pacheco, WEA Advocacy Network Coordinator I grew up in a tiny, rural town on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i called Honomu. We are maybe 550 people large, and are a remnant of the old sugar plantation days when the Big 5 sugar companies were king and villages would crop…
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