BUILDING POWER IN EVERY CORNER OF WASHINGTON
Power is the strength to turn vision into reality. At Inatai, we believe the most important kind of power is community power: The ability for people to achieve a collective purpose and realize a shared vision for a more equitable, racially just future. Introducing Power Builders, a series featuring leaders from all over Washington state whose organizations and communities are planting the seeds for long-term, transformative change.
Home is in community
Meet Power Builders Kim Rinehardt, Jennyfer Mesa, and Paul Tabayoyon. Based in Mason, Spokane, and Yakima counties their work looks different, but at the heart it looks the same: Creating welcoming homes for community members to thrive.
KIM RINEHARDT
Mason County HOST Program
“These systems have tried to dim the light on what myself and my staff are doing. And we are not scared.” Mason County HOST is a community home for young people experiencing homelessness. Visit with Executive Director Kim Rinehardt as she shows us around Shelton and what equity and racial justice work looks like for her organization.
JENNYFER MESA
Latinos en Spokane
Sometimes home can be somewhere thousands of miles away or the community you must create yourself. Jennyfer Mesa shares with us what community power-building looks like in Eastern Washington. She’s the executive director of Latinos en Spokane, which organizes with their community for more just and inclusive policies.
PAUL TABAYOYON
APIC-Yakima
In our collective work for racial equity and justice, we cannot forget who fought before us. Paul Tabayoyon, executive director of Asian Pacific Islander Coalition (APIC) Yakima, connects Filipino history in the Yakima Valley to the work his organization is doing there today. What is more beautiful, more powerful than a community win?
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KIM RINEHARDT
Mason County HOST Program
Visit with Kim Rinehardt as she shows us around Shelton and what equity and racial justice work looks like for her organization.
JENNYFER MESA
Latinos en Spokane
Sometimes home can be somewhere thousands of miles away or the community you must create yourself. Jennyfer Mesa shares with us what community power-building looks like in Eastern Washington.
PAUL TABAYOYON
APIC-Yakima
In our collective work for racial equity and justice, we cannot forget who fought before us. Paul Tabayoyon connects Filipino history in the Yakima Valley to the work his organization is doing there today.