R’Yana Michele (she/they) is a Black Southern Hoodoo healer, organizer, abolitionist, and earth steward. She has worked for 10 years equipping organizers and communities to build power and dignity by developing strategies and practices that transform the way we live, work, and play.
R’Yana has offered her gifts on the national level as the Internal Weaving Director (Chief of Staff) of the New Economy Coalition, Affiliate Trainer for Race Forward, Southern Regional Organizer of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, Webinar Host and Facilitator for The Icarus Project (now Fireweed Collective), and Program Associate for the Black Led Movement Fund at Borealis Philanthropy.
About High Priestess Sanctuaries
In 2016, R’Yana organized with the Black Land and Liberation Initiative to bring Nashville in as an anchor partner. After the national initiative ended, Nashville desired to keep going - tabling at community events, hosting political education sessions, community gardening, hosting fellowship events, and facilitating an annual convening to vision Black land and food sovereignty in Nashville. Many seeds were planted and are still developing across the Nashville ecosystem. The success and demand of this initiative was so high, we realized we had to have space to keep these conversations and ecosystem building going. The Water Bear Cooperative Land Project was founded in 2021 in collaboration with Ether Collective. The cooperative formally launched with 8 members in 2022. As a member-owner, R’Yana was responsible for visioning, strategic planning, member organizing, fundraising, group facilitation, operations/systems development, and land management. Unfortunately, this initial project did not survive the COVID-19 pandemic and the collaboration struggled due to lacking start-up costs, land disputes centered in misogynoir, and struggling membership retention. Check out this interview about Black Nashville farmers and the growing ecosystem working for black food sovereignty in Nashville, TN.
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Background
I was attending an Afrofuturist writers panel and Steven Barnes said something that was electric to my soul and is the basis of my practice - “When erased, we must conjure…” From this quote, Conjure Community Healing Arts was formed.
Conjure Community Healing Arts (CCHA) was a healing practice dedicated to restoring the village culture and practicing a regenerative care economy that meets the needs of our community and addresses the gaps left by the medical industrial complex. Through medicine making, programming, workshops, and training, CCHA intervened to provide a community of care, support, and encouragement for oppressed people and their experiences.
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