Tune in to our first ever storytelling event on December 5th!
There are many ways to celebrate with us!
1) CultureSeed Friend - $15
Includes one ticket to the Storytelling Event. Your participation helps cover the cost of this event so we can fundraise for our year-round outdoor immersion and outdoor mentorship for low income and underserved youth in the Columbia Gorge!
2) CultureSeed Advocate - $65
Includes one ticket to the Storytelling Event and sponsors one youthās participation in an outdoor immersion outing!
3) CultureSeed Columbia Gorge Champion - $325
Includes one ticket to the Storytelling Event, one bottle of wine from our local winery sponsor Domaine Pouillon, and ensures the participation of five youths in an outdoor immersion outing!
4) CultureSeed Columbia Gorge Lead Sponsor - $570
Be a leader in supporting our mission! Includes one ticket to the Storytelling Event, one bottle of wine from our local winery sponsor Domaine Pouillon, and supports participation for one youth for one full month of our year-long outdoor immersion! If pertinent, we can also explore authentic ways to activate your business presence in our community through our website, newsletter and social media!
Storytellers:
Yesenia Castro
Yesenia Castro currently serves as Workforce Development Director with the Oregon Community Health Workers Association, a nonprofit organization in Oregon, and as Outdoor Leadership Ambassador for CultureSeed in Washington state. Yesenia got her B.S in Public Health, with a focus in Health Promotion and Health Behavior from Oregon State University. Yesenia is the oldest daughter of immigrant parents that came from the beautiful states of Durango and Zacatecas, Mexico. Yesenia had the privilege of growing up on farms surrounded by forests in Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon (Original land of the Warm Springs tribes) where her love for the outdoors grew, but it wasn't until she got older that she really started going on adventures. She is passionate about getting Latinx and BIPOC communities outdoors and exploring and looking for adventures. Yesenia hopes that by getting outdoors, traveling, and exploring as a solo Latina adventurer that she inspires other Latinx people to do the same.
Kimberly Cuevas-MƔrquez
Hello everyone. My name is Kimberly Cuevas-MĆ”rquez and I was born and raised in Hood River, Oregon. I am currently a third year student at the University of Oregon where I am majoring in Political Science and Family and Human Services. At CultureSeed, I have been able to help facilitate the Young Womenās Peer Circles and I am also the chair of the Youth Council. Working with CultureSeed has been a real pleasure because the issues the organization addresses are issues I have experienced in my community. I look forward to the future of this organization and hope to do my part to create systemic change in what I call home.
Miguel Vasquez
Miguel Vasquez is a Hood River local who loves to inspire youth. Miguel has been a part of CultureSeed for two years, as Youth Cohort Logistics Manager, and as a foundational presence at our inaugural Latinx Youth Summit in the Gorge. Miguel has been a part of the theatre scene in the Gorge and loves to create stories in his free time. He is very excited to work on a story with Front Porch Sessions about being a Hispanic male in the Gorge and to able to share it with the CultureSeed community!
Production by:
Chris Williams & Front Porch Sessions
About Chris: You will rarely see me wearing a suit. Iāve always been more interested in the who than the what. I believe the quickest way in getting to the who is to listen and thatās how Front Porch Sessions came into existence. The power of story has influenced my life from a very young age and Iāve spent my time incorporating storytelling into the work that I do. I earned a Masterās Degree in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University and have worked in the Equity Department for Portland Public Schools. You can catch me telling my own stories or playing on stage with my Improv Trio Broke Gravy at local theaters. Regardless of where I am or what I am doing I am committed to engagement with the communities around me and living a full life as I do so.ā