Mission Belonging Names Becca Keaty Inaugural Chief Operations Officer
Newly created role marks significant milestone in organization's growth and long-term sustainability.Rockville, Maryland — Mission Belonging today announced the appointment of Becca Keaty as its first-ever Chief Operations Officer. The newly created position reflects...
Using Shifts and Turns to Bring Life to Your Poems — An Online Creative Writing Workshop with Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
Join us on Thursday, March 19th, 2026 at 7 PM Eastern Time for a workshop with writer Luisa Caycedo-Kimura! This workshop is held in partnership with Strathmore.In this workshop, we will examine how poets have used shifts and turns in their work. Using generative...
Junk Journaling: From Mundane to Magic—A Visual Arts Workshop with artist Leslie Hidalgo
Join us on Wednesday, March 18th at 7 PM Eastern Time for Junk Journaling with artist Leslie Hidalgo. In this workshop with veteran and artist Leslie Hidalgo, participants will learn how to creatively repurpose your “junk” and transform a journal into a...
Art Saves Lives: Writing as Proof by Susanna Sonnenberg
I know I’m crazy. I try to align events with my body’s tension but can’t remember properly, my racing heart or late-night brain awake with calculations for escape. What if I just walked out, took my body with me? I could wait until my mother and sister are asleep and...
Art Saves Lives: Writing Against State Erasure by Arthur Kayzakian
"I ran from the country of my birth because I did not want to die. I am a child of state erasure."I was born on a war-torn block. Bombs shook the ground and lit up the sky. Fire hung in flaming threads from blown-out windows in abandoned buildings. Foot soldiers...
Art Saves Lives: Words and Other Lifesaving Devices by Anne Barlieb
I’ve been invited several times in the last two years to write about how writing transforms the story I tell about myself, how it saves my life. I desire to write about this absolute truth. I set the intention and make the time. I’ve been given deadlines by...
Art Saves Lives: Beyond Survival – Becoming Human Again, by Ben Weakley
“No one is coming to save us, so we create, we connect, and we save ourselves.” -Ben Weakley
