Land, Water, and Labor Acknowledgement

The land on which I live and work is the occupied and unceded territory of the Ohlone, Muwekma, Confederated Villages of Lisjan, who are seeking to rematriate the Huichin land on Turtle Island.

I acknowledge the water that sustains this land flows from the Upper Mokelumne River watershed, the ancestral and contemporary homelands of the Miwok and Washoe peoples. I recognize the diversion of this water from its natural course and the ongoing responsibility to protect the ecological integrity of the river system and support the Indigenous guardians of these headwaters.

I acknowledge the collective debt to Indigenous peoples, Asian and Latin American immigrants, and workers of African descent whose forced and exploited labor built this nation. I recognize the ongoing exploitation of incarcerated people and those denied the true value of their work. The theft of labor is the theft of generational progress.