Our Mission

We connect and center our communities to be leading voices on healing and social change. 

Founded in 2018, Soulshine is for and led by a radical and caring community invested in healing and social change. We support people and projects through revolutionary visions and transformative methods.

Historically, mainstream approaches to healing and social change have been rooted in colonizing, pathologizing, and othering, often centering the most privileged voices while not acknowledging those of folks who have been most marginalized. We believe relevant and sustainable healing and change happen when we center people and relationships and trust and elevate community voices to lead.

“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”
— Dolores Huerta

our guiding questions

  • Is this intentionally building what our community needs?

  • Are we building connection by first building trust?

  • Are we speaking truth and acting from a place rooted in love and humility? 

  • Are we practicing our commitment to have difficult conversations that may be unpopular, but critical, to provoking change and building bridges?

  • Are we embracing bravery, boldness, vulnerability, and silence, with awareness of the necessity at different times for each?

  • Are we practicing an awareness of power and privilege in our work, actively naming and undoing our thoughts and practices that uphold oppression?

  • Are we acting with an openness and commitment to our own learning and unlearning, with knowledge that this is a lifelong process?

  • Are we working from a mindset of abundance and collective well-being, aware that our individual and communal liberation and well-being are intertwined?

  • Are we sharing knowledge and resources in a way that honors, respects, and embraces one another’s wisdom, experiences and voices, including those who have paved the way for us?

  • Are we making spaces for the ways our own experiences with struggle and oppression can inform our work, with a commitment to showing up as our full selves?

  • Are we working in a way that acknowledges the many different experiences, people, and stories that must guide our work?

    *questions developed in collaboration with dear friends and colleagues of Elevate|Uplift— The National organization of Asians & Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence, Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, the resource sharing project, and the National sexual violence resource center, 2019.