Our Vision

We envision a transformative public health practice that collectively builds beloved community, fosters collaborations across disciplines, and radically reimagines our futures.

Points of Unity

Our collective “points of unity” are the guiding values and principles that help steer our work and development. We use these to align our theoretical and practical work, so that we may have both critical and impactful collaborations in our community.

• We believe that public health plays a critical role in the systems change needed to prioritize people and the planet, over profits. 

• We envision a world where all human beings - regardless of race, income, gender and sexual orientation, religion, or immigration status - have equitable social infrastructure in their communities to live healthy, safe, sustainable, and holistic lives.

• We believe in the dire need to shift public health practices and broader institutions towards a culture of care that humanizes and heals, rather than harms and traumatizes.

• As health educators, we understand that it’s necessary to address the urgent downstream conditions in our communities, while simultaneously raising consciousness about long-term upstream strategies to address the root causes of social and health disparities.

• We stand alongside frontline communities, community-led actions, projects, and visions for self-determination, by empowering communities with the tools and agency to sustainably advocate on their own behalf beyond the timeline of our work.

• We value a movement building approach which promotes collaborations that uplift grassroots leadership and transformative visions of equity, liberation, and community healing in San Francisco and beyond. We strive to merge movements for racial, economic, educational, gender, and juvenile justice, as critical interventions to systems of criminalization, poverty, and trauma.