On a journey to empower, explore, reconnect, and educate via travel, cultural preservation, and community initiatives.
About our projects & efforts
Cultural Preservation
Whether it’s via educational content, workshops, or educational heritage trips we strive to help promote the importance of diversity and cultural preservation in medicine, music, food, farming and much more.
Workshops & Events
In collaboration with community leaders, we host art and cultural workshops to inspire creativity + as meet-ups and speaking events about important socio-cultural topics.
Trips & Retreats
From the Dominican Heritage Tour to the Dominican Alps Retreat we’ve hosted a number of meaningful trips to the Caribbean that incorporate community, culture, and education.
Donations & Fundraising
We gather and bring school supplies to rural parts of the Caribbean. And we also fundraise to support human rights.
Community + Connection
Our community values are at the heart of our Caribbean culture are thus a main focus of our trips, advocacy, and partnerships.
Ethical/Sustainability
We partner with, hire, and promote business to local entrepreneurs/small businesses while paying fair wages.
“This trip stitched together like-minded, open-hearted, curious and incredible Dominican women from the diaspora and allowed us to question and relearn en communidad. It was powerful.”
– Katherine C.
Cooperativa Vida Nueva
Women Weavers Collective, led by Pastora Gutiérrez in Oaxaca, is defying the status quo in a male-dominated field, uplifting one another through art and business.
Mushroom Foraging Women
This Sierra Norte’s women’s collective preserves the tradition of mushroom foraging in an area where the local indigenous community has full control over tourism.
Anita’s Mayan Kitchen
Sharing Anita’s powerful story of independence and power, and highlighting her revolutionary business in tourism where she teaches Guatemalan cooking.
Put it on our radar!
Do you own a small business or have a story you’d like to share? We’re always happy to support community initiatives, BIPOC, queer, woman-owned, and small businesses from NYC to around the world!
