What they call their work
What they do
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Civil Rights Advocacy & Litigation 1 activity
- Advocacy and movement participation in justice campaignsOrganizes and participates in advocacy campaigns including the Fight for 15, food justice, and voter engagement efforts in collaboration with frontline organizers to advance systemic change.
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Public Awareness and Educational Outreach 1 activity
- Creating and distributing community action toolkits and guidesProduces and distributes free bi-weekly action toolkits and community action guides to support courageous conversations, civic engagement, and collective action on issues of wellbeing, justice, and self-governance.
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Organizational Newsletter Production and Distribution 1 activity
- Distributing the WELLREAD weekly email newsletterDistributes a weekly email newsletter called WELLREAD to inform, engage, and mobilize its community with actionable content related to wellbeing and justice.
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Podcast and Radio Production 1 activity
- Producing and distributing the CTZN PodcastProduces and publishes podcast episodes featuring conversations on themes including wellbeing, justice, trauma, healing, identity, rest, and collective resilience, distributed as an ongoing series to support community engagement and public education.
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Political Leadership Training for Underrepresented Groups 1 activity
- Providing political education and capacity building for collective actionOffers political education and skill-building resources to support individuals in engaging in mutual care, resistance to unjust systems, and collective action.
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Uncategorized 1 activity
- Operating Patreon membership program for community engagementOffers a Patreon platform to engage supporters financially and communally, enabling participation in programming and sustained support for the organization’s work.
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Who runs it
- Kristin Rothballer — Director
Who they work with
- Faith Matters Network Partner — Collaborates on a podcast series exploring collective resilience and community transformation.
- Fight for 15 Partner — Collaborated on organizing efforts related to living wage advocacy.
- Hala Khouri Partner — Featured guest on the CTZNWELL podcast discussing trauma, anxiety, and resilience.
- Jacoby Ballard Partner — Featured guest and collaborator on CTZNWELL podcast discussing queer dharma and liberation.
- Kate Johnson Partner — Featured guest on CTZNWELL podcast discussing radical friendship and relationship as spiritual practice.
- Michelle Cassandra Johnson Partner — Collaborates with Michelle Cassandra Johnson on podcast content related to collective grief and healing.
- Octavia Raheem Partner — Featured guest in a CTZNWELL podcast conversation on rest and stillness.
- Shannon Algeo Partner — Featured guest on the CTZNWELL podcast and collaborator in discussions on community care.
- Tracee Stanley Partner — Featured guest on CTZN Podcast discussing rest, trauma, and healing.
- Vivette Jeffries-Logan Partner — Featured guest and collaborator on CTZNWELL podcast discussing race equity and healing.
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- Communal Grief and Healing as Foundation for Resiliencemethodology: communal-healingBy treating grief and healing as inherently communal processes, the organization enables collective resilience and transformation because shared acknowledgment of loss creates conditions for deeper connection, right relationship, and sustained engagement with systemic change.
- Integrated Civic Engagement and Personal Wellbeingmethodology: civic-engagement-wellness-integrationBy distributing action toolkits that combine civic engagement with personal wellbeing practices, the organization sustains long-term participation because individual wellness and collective action are treated as interdependent—neither can thrive without the other.
- Radical Dialogue as Collective Healingmethodology: radical_dialogueBy facilitating radical dialogue and open inquiry into systemic injustices, the organization fosters trust, collective resilience, and action because shared vulnerability and critical conversation are seen as forms of radical care that address trauma and build communal strength.
- Rest as Transformative Resistancemethodology: rest-as-resistanceBy promoting rest and stillness as a practice, the organization cultivates individual and collective awareness of interdependence and sustains resilience because rest is positioned as a form of resistance to systemic harm and a necessary condition for long-term engagement.
- Solidarity with Impacted Leaders Drives Systemic Changemethodology: solidarity-with-impacted-leadersBy partnering with campaigns led by those most impacted by injustice, the organization advances justice through creative disruption and reimagination because leadership from lived experience ensures authenticity, strategic relevance, and transformative potential in advocacy efforts.