Board of Wisdom Keepers
We are deeply honoured to be guided by the collective wisdom of the individuals who form our Board of Wisdom Keepers - Zainab Amadahy, Jennifer Mae Maramba, and Shaunga Tagore. This council emerged from our desire to ground this project under the guidance of elders and to honour the practice of elder-led mentorship and intergenerational knowledge sharing.
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ZAINAB AMADAHY
Currently residing in Nogojiwanong, ON, Zainab Amadahy is an author of screenplays, nonfiction and futurist fiction. She has a multiracial background that includes African American, Tsalagi and Seminole. Zainab serves on Muskrat Magazine’s Advisory Committee and the Board of the Community Race Relations Committee, Peterborough.
JEN MARAMBA
Jen Maramba / Tulay Araw / Dayang Tala Pinagpalang Saksi (She/They) sits and honours the land of the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and continues to learn and embody the teachings & sacred contracts of treaties of these lands and waters in the city known as Guelph.
Jen honours her most recent ancestral lineage of Pangasinan and Panay Island, from the islands commonly known through the colonial name of the ‘Philippines’.
Jen Maramba is a sacred witness, decolonizing energetic healer and parent. As an interdisciplinary artist and creative arts facilitator/educator, Jen explores the healing elements of nature and plant spirit communication through a creative embodiment process of visual art, sound art, movement and ritual.
SHAUNGA TAGORE
SHAUNGA TAGORE is a queer, multi-gendered woman of colour. She is Artistic Director of Otherworldly Giants: Creation Company, Storytelling School & Divination Channel. Some of Shaunga's community roles and gifts include: Planetary Priestess (formerly known as Astrologer), Multiverse Historian, Quantum Whisperer, Death Surgeon, Time Keeper and Furrever Cat Mama. She is "founder" (a true epic tale of soul and ancestral RETRIEVAL) of Open Heart Surgery Storytelling, and Showrunner of the Ancestors Writers Room. Shaunga is a Proud Pachakuti Mesa Carrier, initiated and adopted into this tradition under the loving guidance of Dr. G. Love aka Geryll Robinson of Soulshifting Retreats.
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With the wisdom keepers’ diverse experience as artists, educators and facilitators working in community transformation and conflict mediation, they serve as guardians of the project’s integrity and help ensure accountability to project values, ethics and protocols.
Their guidance has helped us attune to the understanding that conflict holds transformative potential for individual, collective, and ancestral healing - inviting us to deepen our relations with each other and embrace the new relational possibilities that conflict opens up.
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Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts for the support for Conflict Transformation in the Arts & Beyond
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Launched 5 months agoThis project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, facilitates opportunities to expand well-being, resilience, and sustainability outcomes in the Arts & adjacent sectors by building leadership around conflict transformation