Hilary Giovale

Hilary Giovale is a community organizer, facilitator, and writer who lives on Hopi, Diné, Apache, and Havasupai land in Flagstaff, Arizona. An American settler, she is descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. Hilary seeks to follow Indigenous and Black leadership in support of human rights, environmental justice, and equitable futures. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships. She divests from whiteness and bridges divides with truth, healing, apology, and forgiveness. She is the author of the award-winning book Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair and a co-founder of The Sacred Land Alliance. Learn more about her work at goodrelative.com

Hilary Giovale in Kosmos

Cultivating Cultural Respect

Reflecting on cultural sampling, Indigenous teachings, and a traditional fasting ceremony, the author explores what it means for "settlers" to engage respectfully across cultures. Through humility, accountability, and relationship, she discovers a deeper sense of kinship with both people and Earth.

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,