Planet Party

Join us to celebrate Earth Week with a sustainability-themed art showcase, an environmental film-screening, canvas tote bag decoration, and announcements!

Guest Speaker Renée and Micaela, Co-founders of Womxn from the Mountain, will do an Ally and Accomplice workshop for Earth Justice from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Co-hosted by the One World One Water Center. Register here for the workshop.

Womxn from the Mountain is an indigenous grassroots organization working in direct action to address environmental justice advocacy, protections, health analysis, to focus equity priorities in regulations, permitting, and legislation for CO state agencies, federal agencies including the EPA, and NGO's to address harms from cumulative impacts of environmental pollution and environmental racism. We also work for transforming education through justice, art, and indigenous cultural education for programming, events, and mutual aid with cultural responsiveness and trauma sensitivity.

• Renée Bio: My name is Renée Millard-Chacon, I am Diné/Xicana/ Filipina, the Mama of two starseeds, a Sahumadora in Danza Azteca (a woman that holds the smoke in our cultural dances), and the Co Founder of Womxn from the Mountain focused on environmental justice in Commerce City, Denver, and Colorado for disproportionately impacted communities with a focus on Indigenous communities. I am the Co Chair on the Equity Analysis subcommittee for the Environmental Justice Action Taskforce for the Colorado Department of Health and Environment and currently Commerce City Council Womxn for Ward 3.  

• Micaela Bio: Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez is a Sicangu Lakota, Apache, and Xicana woman born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She first, is a MOTHER to two a beautiful little humans, a human rights advocate, a co-founder and adult mentor for the International Indigenous Youth Council 5280, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Womxn from the Mountain, marketing coordinator for Creative Strategies for Change, and last but not least, she is an actor for the Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange. She works hard every day to fight for environmental justice, and social justice for those of us existing today, and for our future generations, but most importantly she works hard to bring women of all backgrounds together in a way that allows them to empower each other and create strong, matriarchal bonds for future generations. Her continued pursuit is to help spread awareness and stop the violence our women and two-spirit people who have endured for centuries.