Mixed Faces Wild Spaces
Healing in community. Belonging in nature. Liberation by design.You’ve landed in a space that honors every part of you. A space where you’re not asked to choose between identities, soften your truth, or make yourself smaller to fit in. Here, your whole self is not just welcome—it’s essential.This is a place to breathe deeper. To root down. To reclaim your relationship with land, with community, and with yourself.✨ You belong here.
🌱 You are needed here.
🔥You are not alone here.Let’s grow something wild and free—together.Nature makes space for all of us. So do we.This website is new and still a work in progress. We are working to get our website up and running to the full extent as soon as possible, while also holding our limits with care.If you have any questions about our website, invitation to send us an email [email protected]!
What is MFWS?
Mixed Faces Wild Spaces is a movement for people whose lives are shaped by the compounding pressures of systems of domination—racism, ableism, classism, transphobia, xenophobia, and more.We offer free, liberatory outdoor programs grounded in healing, connection, and land-based belonging. Sustained by sliding-scale events and services like guided nature experiences, consulting, and ecological design through our initiative, Triphyllum.All of this work moves toward a larger vision: a land based sanctuary where people are free to be whole.
Mission, Vision, & Values
Mission: To empower people with intersectional lived experiences to feel a true sense of belonging in the outdoors. We provide resources, tools, and a supportive community to help people connect with nature, themselves, and one another.Vision: And all of it—every program, every gathering, every garden—is a seed planted toward our long-term vision: a land-based sanctuary where housing, food, water, and power are shared freely. A future where everyone has what they need to be whole, rooted, and free in nature; fostering true belonging.Values: Grounded strongly in wisdom and guidance of Black Queer FeminismCommunal Healing – because no one heals aloneStewardship – because Earth care is both self and communal careBelonging – because difference is sacred and necessaryLove as the Practice of Freedom – because love builds collective liberation
Branches of Offerings
Free Community Programs - built by and for people whose lives have been shaped by the systems of oppression, offering trauma-informed gatherings that center healing, joy, and relationship with land. We bring the gear. We offer adaptive tools. We create spaces that are kind, consent-based, and trauma-informed.Sliding Scale Services and Events - These offerings sustain our free programs and help plant deeper roots.
Our Free Programs
Freedom By The Fire (click here to fill out interest survey!): Nature x Liberation X Community. Join us monthly as we come together around the fire to learn from one another about the movement for collective liberation in our own lives and communitiesConnecting on the Rail Trail : In beautiful partnership with Finca Luna Búho. Join us for a free and recurring community event series along the Ashuwillticook Bike Trail in the Berkshire/Taconic Region. Run by and for people of historically underrepresented identities in the outdoors, together we will go biking, riding, walking, birding, foraging, plant IDing, exploring queer ecology, and much more!Pop Up Nature Based Skills Shares, Adventures, and Workshops: Foraging, queer ecology hikes, tracking, shelter-building, intro to tent camping, and more!
Confused about where you land on the sliding scale in general?🌱For individuals/people, invitation use our optional self assessment tool!🌱For orgs or entities, please use our org assessment tool to determine where you fall on the sliding scale for our services.Sliding Scale not Accessible for You?🌱Check out our newest offering, The Guild of Wild Belonging - A space built so people can connect directly with MFWS through mutual aid, skills exchange, and care-based relationships; all outside of the confines of capitalism.
Sliding Scale Events and Services
EventsTBDServices
Guided wilderness/nature based experiences: Workshops, retreats, and nature-based events for your group.Pop Up Nature Based Skills Shares, Adventures, and Workshops: Foraging, queer ecology hikes, tracking, shelter-building, intro to tent camping, skills shares, and more!Speaking and consulting: Related to liberatory, trauma informed nature based programmingTriphyllum: our ecological design arm that offers design, installation, and consultation services for gardening, agroforestry, and permaculture.Custom Outdoor Curriculum: We design inclusive, healing-centered environmental education programs for organizations, schools, or collectives looking to deepen access, stewardship, and community connection through nature. (This is separate from Triphyllum, and focused on education, not design.)
About the Founder
Kenjah (they/them) , pronounced Ken-yah, is a justice loving person, a community builder, an outdoor educator, and an advocate for collective liberation of people and nature. A trans non-binary multi-racial person of neurodivergent experience, their passion flows from a fierce love of people and nature.Kenjah's love for justice and people have taken many forms and evolved over time.It led them to pursuing and being awarded with a Master's degree in Criminal Justice from University at Albany at the age of 23. Following this, they began to work within the field of criminal justice to assist the victims of the justice system; specifically working with incarcerated folks near their release date to reintegrate them into their communities, and working in community based gun violence mediation and prevention. Always leading with a love of people and a love for justice, Kenjah’s education, personal experience, career experience, and many impactful mentors along the way led them to one resounding truth about the justice system in the US: it works exactly the way it is supposed to. It is not broken. There are not just a few bad actors. The system in and of itself operates with the express intent of causing harm to particular communities.Imbued with the power of truth, they set out to align themselves with their true purpose. Kenjah began searching for a way to marry their love of justice and people, with their love of the outdoors.Through searching for alignment, their path led them to co-creating the first national Queer Wilderness Leadership Training with The Venture Out Project, becoming a Transformation Partner with The Resonance Collective (Formerly DEI Outdoors), graduating the Rising Leaders Fellowship Program with Justice Outside, becoming the Executive Assistant for Transformations and their Project Manager for Liberation Camp 2024, and founding Mixed Faces Wild Spaces.Kenjah continues to be a student of life, centering their learning through the lenses of intersectionality, Black feminism, Indigenous wisdom, and the wisdom of our Trans BIPOC community.“I dream of a world that we can all belong to.” - Me (Kenjah)
Join Us
🌱 We are planting seeds for a future where belonging is a birthright, and care is the currency.🌧️ If you are ready to water this vision in alignment, we welcome you in - whomever you may be.📍 Located in the Berkshire/Taconic Region of Turtle Island, within the unceded lands of the Mohican Nation📧 Contact us via email at [email protected] to inquire about our offerings and to come into connection!🌐Check out our Instagram or Tik Tok for announcements about our free community events and much more!🌱 Help us nourish this vision! We invite you to steward this vision with us in the ways that feel aligned with your skills and abilities:🦋 For Tax Deductible Donations towards our Connecting on the Rail Trail Program, check out our donation link here.
🦋 We accept new and lightly used outdoor gear to add to our gear library! Please contact us first.
🦋 Check out our Kofi shop! Kofi allows us to receive one time and recurring donations, post updates about our needs/ goals, and offer a variety of products for clients to purchase at sliding scale prices!We will be offering zines/ diy guides/ worksheets/ other intellectual labor, culturally relevant hiking guides to the berkshires for folks who experience marginalization, inclusive outdoor curriculum for groups, ecological/ permaculture designs, stickers/pins with our logo, and much more!
