About

Loam is a movement of compassionate and creative activists who strive to support one another as we find our footing in the heart of the climate crisis.

Our community is passionate about seeding regeneration, resilience, and joy through embodied experiences that inspire the cultivation of sustainable activist practices, foster intersectionality across movements, and help each one of us to heal our connection to our earth.

From publishing vibrant print publications to facilitating immersive workshops, Loam's constellation of creatives is committed to building a better world through arts-as-activism. 

We are endlessly grateful to the Kalliopeia Foundation for supporting this work. Loam would not be possible without our community!

Accessibility

Our hope is for Loam to reach folx who have felt marginalized by mainstream climate activism by honoring the creative energy within each of us. We value the power of the personal to inspire connection to systems change and cherish the opportunity to dig into our deeper “whys” through heart-powered stories and embodied experiences. 

Intersectionality

Our struggles are interconnected and our liberation is interdependent. Cultivating ecological regeneration is interwoven in the work of advocating for Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA justice, indigenous sovereignty, and feminism. 

Compassion

Our practices and projects are imperfect. We bring generosity of spirit to our work and grace in our interactions with earth and each other. We strive to show up in service and when we make mistakes, to do what’s needed to mend & remake. We are committed to calling each other in, to listening, to learning, to evolving, and to extending our circle of care and connection. 

Creativity

Our constellation of artists & activists finds joy and juiciness in the creative process. We work together to reimagine narratives surrounding possibility and power, to create fearlessly, and to value art as a cherished catalyst for change. 

Multiplicity

We work to subvert binaries by making space for multiple voices. We honor our grief as deeply as our joy and believe that there is no single way to show up in service. 

Reciprocity

We want to give to the earth what she gives to us and to gift to one other the kindness, reverence, respect, and love that sustains life. We are in dynamic relationship with our ecosystem and it’s our responsibility to co-tend and co-mend with care.

Kailea Frederick (Editor) is a mother and First Nations woman dedicated to supporting individuals of all cultures in remembering their ties to the earth.

Growing up off the grid in Maui, Hawai`i forever imprinted in her the importance of reciprocity through indigenous world - view. She feels raised by wild spaces and intimately tied to Honua, our island earth. 

A graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program, she has in-depth training in interpersonal communication, community building across cultural and linguistic boundaries and large group facilitation. She is a Spiritual Ecology Fellow, and has served as a youth delegate twice to the United Nations Climate Change conferences (COP).

Currently, Kailea offers facilitation and project consultation through her project Earth Is `Ohana and a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma. 

Kate Weiner (Creative Director) is an environmental educator and writer.

Kate is a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant as well as a 2021 Activist-in-Residence at BPL.

She facilitates workshops across the country on regeneration and resilience, and has a certificate in Community Herbalism from Rootwork Herbals and in Climate Change and Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health.

Amirio Freeman (Loam Listen Host) is a Black, queer Southerner and a food systems advocate and artist.

Amirio is the founder of Being Green While Black, a “visual archive of the constellations of greenness within the vast cosmos of blackness” that ultimately serves as a “digital spell to conjure socially, politically, economically, and ecologically just futures where blackness isn’t marginalized.”

Currently based in Washington, D.C., Amirio is an advocacy specialist for a domestic hunger-relief organization; there, they use policy, art, and community to envision and manifest a healthier and more equitable food system in the U.S. Amirio’s life and work are propelled by the belief that “[w]hen we love the Earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully.” (bell hooks)