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With ILI Year 5 Fellows Lehuanani Ah Nee, James Pakootas, Nada Odeh, and Tonya Williams

Arts & Culture

Moving Toward a Vibrant Black Arts and Culture Ecosystem

ILI Year 5 Fellow DeMarcus Akeem Suggs shares his own experience modeling arts & culture ecosystems, his visionary leadership in Black arts, and how interculturality

ILI Year 5 Fellow Joeseph Arnoux at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, MS

Arts & Culture

ILI Fellow Joeseph Arnoux Reflects

ILI Year 5 Fellow Joeseph Arnoux created a video story of his reflections on being in the Intercultural Leadership Institute year-long program.

ILI Year 5 Fellow Lehuanani Ah Nee begins her self-debriefing process while traveling home to Hawai'i from the Sipp Culture ILI Cultural Intensive in Jackson, MS

Arts & Culture

Lehuanani Ah Nee ILI Fellow Reflection

ILI Year 5 Fellow Lehuanani Ah Nee created a series of videos reflections after returning home to Keaukaha Hawaiʻi from the Sipp Culture ILI Cultural

ILI Year 4 Fellows gathered together joyfully

Fellow Reflections

Reclamation, Revitalization, and Indigenous Futurity Through Storytelling

ILI Alum Loren Waters reflects on her ILI Year 4 experience and draws connection and meaning to her own Indigenous peoples perspective.

Monna Morton Hilo beach photo by Ennis Carter

Fellow Reflections

My ILI Journey

ILI Year 4 Fellow Monna Morton reflects on her ILI Journey. I have been trying to find the time to gather my thoughts, feelings, and

FamILI in the Field

WHY I BROKE UP WITH WEED

“Okay, I did not break up with weed, I broke up with the weed industry.” ILI Year 4 participant Sonia Erika reflects on the concept

Rani poses with the Creatives of Colour team at a bistro table.

Arts & Culture

ILI Participant Reflections: Rani Pramesti

We recently caught up with Rani Pramesti to talk about their experience in ILI Year 3, interculturalism, and their current artistic work in the field.

Fellow Reflections

ILI ROOTS Intensive

Alternate ROOTS served us the last workshop. I have endless gratitude for all the learning we had passed to us as members of the Year

Fellow Reflections

ILI NALAC Intensive

Still reeling from the @weareili fellowship training from @nalac_arts . Been reviewing my notes from Dr. Ybarra-Fausto and as cultural workers and artists I keep coming back to the

Fellow Reflections

Loving the @weareili fellowship trainings! Excellent and vulnerable presentations from @paifoundation regarding what being Hawaiian means after all the settlers and various waves of migration, love for community,

Arts & Culture

Fellow Story: Tiffany Vega-Gibson

We recently interviewed ILI Year 3 Fellow Tiffany Vega-Gibson about her experience in arts & culture leadership and her hopes for her ILI experience. Please

Arts & Culture

ILI Zines Now Online!

Suzy González and César Ramos – ILI Fellows from Year 2 – teamed up to lead the creation of zines from each of the three

FamILI in the Field

Alum Update: Robert Martinez

Robert Martinez is an ILI Fellow Alum from 2018/19. We caught up with him to hear about what he’s doing now. What have you been working

FamILI in the Field

Alum Update: Christopher D. Sims

As the new year proceeds, and as I look towards a year of arts, culture, and all that those things encompass, I move forward knowing

Theo Wilson & ILI Fellow Alum Lauren Fitzgerald

Fellow Reflections

ILI: The Beautiful Journey

by ILI Fellow Alum Theo E.J. WilsonGet a first-hand perspective on the ILI experience from this Year 2 ILI Fellow alum. “Adventure often announces itself

Fellow Reflections

REFLECTIONS: ILI Intensive #2

ILI Fellow muthi reed shares their thoughts and photos from ILI Hawaiʻi. Aloha. Mahalo. ‘Āina. Hawai’i. Land of sacred relationships thank you for welcoming us home

Grounding moment at ILI Lakota intensive. Photo: Melisa Cardona

Fellow Reflections

SHOWING UP AND WORKING THROUGH

Interview with Nijeul X. Porter, ILI Alum, Past Contributor Nijeul shared his thoughts about what he calls the “ILI Experience 2.0,” his personal

Fellow Reflections

CO-CREATING IS RADICAL

These days, it seems easier to talk online than in person. ILI Alumni Fellow, Shey Rivera Ríos, is trying to change that. Shey Rivera Ríos

FamILI in the Field

WHAT IS POSSIBLE

Photo: Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s PILLOWTALK (The Tank, Jan. 2018). Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk ILI Fellow Kyoung Park guest blogs on Arts Leadership and the future of

Arts & Culture

CELEBRATING “HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MONTH”

Photo: Pūnana Leo o Mānoa Hawaiian Medium Education Preschool students attending the “2017 Ke Au Hawaiʻi- Year of the Hawaiian” ceremony at Washington Place, Honolulu.

Fellow Reflections

REFLECTIONS: ILI – Aloha Aina

ILI Fellows, including Carol Zou (left) and Edyka Chilomé (right) during ILI Intensive #2 in Hawai’i. Photo: Melisa Cardona 2018 was the year I lovingly

Fellow Reflections

REFLECTIONS: ILI Intensive #1

ILI Fellows Robert Martinez (l) and Christopher D. Sims (r) ILI Fellow Christopher Sims shares his thoughts and experiences from Lakota Territory “This is professional