About Us

WHO ARE WE?

Project Curate (PC) is a non-profit social impact agency and consultancy that works with religious, academic, and community organizations to address and support collaborative responses to intersectional racial injustice and inequality issues. We do so through curriculum development, training, design, consulting, facilitation, research, community building, and organizing, public events, and various multimedia interventions.

Our mission is to foster emancipatory and liberating public and community engagement practices that move people into zones where they can dismantle barriers that exist along the lines of class, race, sex, gender, and political orientation. We invite diverse communities to engage in experiences where they learn solidarity and network-building for personal accountability, transformation and social change. As our name suggests, we see ourselves as curators who organize, collect, and attend to different stories and cultural traditions, often placing them together to facilitate a better understanding of human differences and to bring about radical visions of a more just and equitable world.

 Effective community and civic engagement methods must be rooted in a vibrant and authentic community, where creative and innovative strategies are encouraged and fostered. We seek to sustain and, in some cases, re-constitute bold and prophetic movements for social change with this conviction.

To be bold and prophetic means:

1. Developing spiritual practices that allow one to engage in a continual process of self-and-communal reflection, interrogation, and renewal.
2. Boldly responding to the forms of structural evil—like racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia—that continue to perpetuate oppressive systems and institutions.
3. Recognizing divine power in the voices and cultural productions of those historically oppressed and leveraging one’s resources and privileges to aid in amplifying these voices while dismantling the systems that seek to continue to silence these voices.
4. Engaging with and learning from prophetic forms of witness made from various non/faith orientations, including Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, and humanist forms of thought and practice.
5. Being cognizant of, bringing attention to, and rooting out how power dynamics and differences affect or, in some cases, undermine many of our sincerest efforts at racial and social justice