Laying the Groundwork for a Just World
Cities & People Advisors partners with organizations to achieve transformational change and end systemic oppression. For over a decade, we’ve been bringing our intersectional lens and multi-disciplinary approach to these partnerships through services including equity-focused research and evaluation, organizational development, project design and sustainability, strategic planning, and the design and facilitation of meetings, trainings, and convenings. Our team members are racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse, and we bring our lived expertise as disabled people, LGBTQ parents, members of working-class families of origin, fostered/adopted youth, and immigrants to all the work we do.
“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.”
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Ohlone peoples inhabited what we now know as the Bay Area for thousands of years. ‘Ohlone’ is a loose term used to name the dozens of indigenous groups, with distinct dialects, that have lived and given to this land before European invasion. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present, and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.
The County of Los Angeles recognizes occupies land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present, and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide, and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing, and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County. We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.
