The Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE) Chicago works to build the capacity of Filipinx/a/os to organize towards progressive change.

AFIRE creates programs that are grounded in popular education and address issues through an intersectional lens to deepen collective understanding of the unique experiences of the Filipinx/a/o community.

The Evolved Network provides experiential programming through culinary arts and gardening, equipping youth in systemically oppressed communities with transformative healing, skills, and support needed to evolve into masters of their unique gifts.

Ujimaa Medics is a Black Health Collective that spreads emergency and community care response skills in order to build resilient, self-determined, and well Black communities. For Black residents of Chicago’s South and West sides, inadequate access to care, particularly in emergencies, is both a cause and a compounding factor of health challenges. Disparities in emergency care in the aftermath of gun violence are what pushed the co-founders to start Ujimaa Medics.

Since 2014, Ujimaa Medics has reached approximately 3,000 people in metro Chicago and around the country with skills development related to gunshot first aid, asthma, protest defense, community safety, and other health and safety topics important for Black survival.