The Radical Mapping Project
V Plotkin is a zesty 20 somethin',recent college grad with a insatiable curiosity and an undying passion for art and social justice. V hails from Long Beach, CA and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Community Studies. As a self proclaimed gender non-binary, filipinx queer, V goes by they/them/their pronouns. In their free time, V likes to bike, cook, experiment with witchcraft, obsessively make playlists, and discover new ways to create social revolution through healing and spirituality.
...Us!
Hannah LaBonte grew up in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from The New School with a self-designed major, "Gendered Ecologies/Ecologies of Gender," wherein she explored the connection between cultural/spiritual ontologies, (non-binary) gender schemas, and the environment. She is interested in contemplative psychology, skill sharing and alternative economies as modes of social transformation and intends to teach mindfulness as a tool for individual resiliency in the face of external and internalized oppression.
(Naz)areth Velazco graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a Community Studies degree and is originally from Moreno Valley, CA. Evenings are her favorite part of the day, she loves Joshua Tree park a lot, and rewatches the X-Files when she can. She has taken the quote “We’re all just walking each other home” - Ram Dass to heart and applies it to everything she does whether it is social justice work, getting groceries, cooking with friends, or sitting in the backyard with her mom.
Madeleine Keller is a community organizer, educator, and Witch hailing from Santa Cruz, California. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2017 with a B.A. in Community Studies. Her undergraduate field work in rural southern Missouri studying community organizing efforts in white, poor, rural communities won two research awards. Ethnographic field work, community mapping, and participatory action research have since become her passions and her preferred mode of moving through the world. She enjoys organizing bike parties, teaching classes, learning about plants, bullet journalling, long-winded anecdotes, and discovering more hobbies. She hopes to use her skills and interests to aid in the important task of creating a better world.
