As a part of our RE·Imagine blog, we want to highlight the wonderful people who we work with, and who make the work possible. Feature of the Month is a series dedicated to shine light on members of the RE·Center community and highlight their contributions both in and out of the work that we do.
Meet SabriAnan, the 2019-2020 Communications and Storytelling Fellow at RE-Center! SabriAnan’s social justice work began in college through learning about and participating in grassroots organizing and work in diversity and inclusion. However, SabriAnan notes that their social consciousness was born in 2014 with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Unsure of how to get involved as a high schooler at the time, SabriAnan followed the rise of BLM via social media and news outlets. “…Up until that point, I was painfully aware of racial inequity in the country and world but did not realize the deep systemic nature of it. BLM gave me some of the language to explain my own and other’s experiences…”. The following conversations about racial inequity with loved ones served as SabriAnan’s entry point into social justice and equity work.
In the future, SabriAnan hopes to enter academia as an Anthropologist with a focus on health justice and healing practices. SabriAnan’s interest in oral history and narrative as a tool for organizing brought SabriAnan to RE·Center. SabriAnan is excited to spend the next year practicing transformative and ethical storytelling and building RE·Center’s capacity to do the same. SabriAnan is also eager to explore Hartford and get to know the RE·Center community over the next year.
SabriAnan is a firm believer in the power of self- and community care and is on a constant journey to practice mindful and purposeful joy. SabriAnan enjoys spending quality time with friends and loved ones, discovering new music, and exploring new places.
RE·Imagine:
“I am reimagining a world where we are able and encouraged to practice joy every day. I am imagining a world where taking time to nourish one’s soul is not seen as a waste of time. I am reimagining a world where love is at the center of every interaction. A world where we genuinely ask one another “how are you?” A world where tragedy was an exception rather than the norm. What would happen if we truly approached one another and ourselves with love and compassion?”
