Seedlings in the Seva Office

Seva member Daniel Rodriguez has begun a seedling project here at the Seva office. With over 40 packets of plant seeds donated by Kitazawa Seed Co. and the Seed Savers Exchange, we are taking a step towards building a healthy food source for our community, putting our programs goals into action right in our own back windowsill.

NACH on the road to New Mexico this weekend

Seva's NACH team is proud to be attending the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) meeting May 2-4th in Albuquerque:
"A Tapestry for Change: Addressing Chronic Health Disparities in a Changing World."

We are presenting a vibrant poster along with our local partners from Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland and our collaborators from the Northern California Chapter of SOPHE. Together, we are looking forward to learning with each other and raising visibility of these amazing community health efforts with more audiences.

NACH Articles in the News

NACH has been working alongside our partners to raise visibility of these projects. Gilberto Daniel Rodriguez, a member of the NACH team, has written articles for many Native American and healthy foods news sources,  including Cultural Survival, Edible East Bay, Indian Country Today, and News from Native California. In these articles, he shares stories about events such as the Harvest Dinner at the Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland, California, provides informative details about our program's growth, and gives insight into the beauty of the communities that we work with. 
To read any of these articles, click the links below:
News from Native California: A Feast for the Community

Indian Country Today: Good Medicine Grows in Bay Area's American Indian Community 

Cultural Survival: Kola Le Miye Ca Wau Welo "My friend, this is me, I am coming" 

Edible East Bay: Reclaiming a Native Harvest

Namgyal Tsepak, Research Fellow

Namgyal Tsepak, a member of the NACH team, was interviewed on his experience working with Seva. A native of Tibet, he grew up as a nomadic yak herder, and identifies first-hand with development realities among indigenous communities in the U.S. and around the world. He arrived at Seva headquarters in Berkeley, California last July and  has traveled to Alaska, South Dakota, and locally in the Oakland Native American community as a Seva associate.  He came to Seva via the Hart Fellows Program of Duke University, where he graduated last year with a degree in Cultural Anthropology. His interview offers a unique view of the Seva program and provides great insight into the happenings within the NACH community.
for the full interview:
http://seva.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=programs_NA_Nanjie&autologin=true