Artists + Practitioners + Organizations

Environmental Health Coalition (EHC)  is a nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice. The organization believes that justice is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change. EHC organizes and advocates to protect public health and the environment that is threatened by toxic pollution. EHC supports broad efforts to create a just society and foster a healthy and sustainable quality of life.

Playwrights Project empowers people of all ages and backgrounds to voice stories through theatre, inspiring individual growth and creating meaningful community connections. Its vision is to sustain an inclusive, compassionate community that broadens minds through the power of creativity and theatre. It champions individual voices, with a focus on uplifting underserved communities through equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist practices that raise BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and similarly marginalized individuals. Programs serve youth in San Diego schools and individuals of all ages who have experienced poverty, homelessness, foster care, immigration, substance use disorder, the justice system, and the military. 

Asian Culture & Media Alliance, or ACMA, serves to elevate and amplify the voices within our Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) diaspora through the transformative power of media arts, specifically film, television, and new media. The organization aims to advocate for positive social change and better equity by increasing the visibility of diverse AANHPI artists, creators, and cultural practitioners. In doing so, ACMA actively works towards dismantling social and cultural barriers.