Team Members
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Grant Writer & Fundraising Support Contractor
Brooks Hosfeld (he/they) is an avid seeker of justice and joy in professional and personal pursuits. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, he has made Denver home for the past five years. Brooks has been working in community building for a decade, and now enacts fundraising and operations expetitse for local nonprofits. In and out of work, they are deeply rooted in community and the belief that collective liberation is possible. In their personal time, Brooks is a full-time dog dad to a goofy lab mix and can most often be found reading or playing with friends in a nearby park.
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Administrative Coordinator
nora.s@hafnco.orgNora is a Mexican-born, Colorado resident. She is passionate about all things science, nature, social justice initiatives, and cultivated learning. Through her work and as a community member, Nora aspires to be a positive catalyst in the movement towards a healed and sustainable world for all.
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Web Design Consultant
nadiegan4@gmail.com
Nico is a Colombian industrial designer and audiovisual producer with qualities for project management, teamwork, and decision-making.
his design education and experience, combined with passion for social projects, have equipped him with the skills and knowledge to create innovative designs that have a positive impact on people's lives.
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CESC ProgramConsultantReshawn Edison holds a BA in Social Science, specializing in Anthropology with a minor in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies from the University of Denver. Reshawn is the Cultural Education and Environmental Justice Program Consultant and an Indigenous Relations Consultant at Harvest of All First Nations. At Living Heritage Anthropology, Reshawn works as an Ethnographer, contributing to tribal consultation efforts in historic and cultural land management. He serves as President and Ceremonial Leader of Heska Makoce Tyospiye, the Native American Church of Colorado, which promotes access to Indigenous prayer and healing. As an anthropologist rewriting Indigenous narratives and actively challenging settler power structures to the commitment of social justice.
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Administrative Coordinator
Stephanie Hempel (she/her) is an LGBTQA+ artist, writer, and community connector who is passionate about food justice and sustainability. She began working with HAFN in 2023, planning the 2nd Annual Corn Festival. Since then, she's supported HAFN in communications, operations, administration and event support for the FJS and SARL programs. Her enthusiasm for creativity is sustained by organizations like HAFN, which allow her to work spaciously alongside organizers who are sculpting the world into a more harmonious future.
She graduated from Naropa University in 2020 with her MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, where she taught undergraduate students. Her work has taken her into the realms of public health, food systems, caretaking, operations management, marketing, design, teaching, public speaking, and content writing.
She is the Co-Founder of the magazine Tiny Spoon Lit Mag, which features experimental art and writing. She is a member of Wisdom Body Collective: a collective that celebrates the sacred feminine energy that lives within us all. WBC is also a small, independent press in Boulder that publishes anthologies and chapbooks.
In 2023, she was awarded a City of Boulder Arts and Culture grant for Experiments in Public Art to support her project Shine On: A Creative Approach to Food Justice. Shine On works to combat food waste and stigma about free grocery programs by offering a unique farmers market-style pop-up with artistic and cultural programming. The market will launch in the summer of 2023.
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Food Justice and Sovereignty Program Weaver and Cultural Education and Environmental Justice Admin
Kiara Bonilla is a Mexican-American who was born and raised in the Western Slope of Colorado. She is an undergraduate at CU Boulder studying Environmental Studies and Sociology with an emphasis on Native American and Indigenous Studies. She has worked with the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee at ENVS CU Boulder and is passionate about Environmental Justice for marginalized communities and Indigenous sovereignty.
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Likes continue creating opportunities for reparations towards Indigenous and BIPOC communities. Andrea currently a senior undergraduate working to obtain the Environmental Studies at Naropa University, focused on environmental and social justice on behalf of our planet. Additionally, after graduation she will have a minor in Peace Studies, and Food Justice. She is originally Indigenous from Mexico, and she has become passionate about creating social justice and equity for people. She is the Chief Executive Director, and Founder the non-profit Harvest of All First Nations (HAFN), which is focused on Indigenous-led reparations, rematriation & Earth based Decolonization for the benefit of BIPOC peoples for cultural enrichment & health equity .HAFN was able to host the first annual Corn Festival in Boulder County, focused on Land Back, Indigenous leadership and regenerative agriculture. My cultural, ceremonial and ongoing community background has helped me to offer an opportunity for generation healing for the next generations including my children. It is a great opportunity to be able to express and present more about of HAFN, so new ways of governance models within the non- profit world and societies could be modeled to help break patriarchal systems.
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Food Justice & Sovereignty Program Weaver
After a decade of educating youth about agro-ecology and leading Operations in the wellness industry, I'm overjoyed to join HAFN's mission to reconnect indigenous communities with our beautiful Mother Earth. As the Food Justice & Sovereignty Program Weaver, I bring with me a deep love for protecting soil and growing traditional food. When I'm not in the garden, you can find me in me hiking with my dog or salsa dancing with friends!
Our Consultants
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Hafn Indigenous Relations Consultant
Is a first-generation Chicana, daughter of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants. Aracely believes deeply that there is great healing and decolonization needed for the land and the people. For this reason, Aracely's work centers Environmental Justice, reproductive justice and the healing of her community, the Mother Earth, all the generations that have come before and those that will come after. Aracely holds a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health from Emory University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science from Colorado College. Aracely loves learning about herbal medicine, birth work and regenerative agricultural practices. Her heart is truly in this work to heal community and protect Mother Earth and all of her children.
Aracely will always welcome you with an open heart and a ready ear!
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SARL Program Consultant
Spent a decade-long career as an educator in K-12 public schools teaching and leading for equity. She now trains future teachers as a professor at Regis University and leads justice, equity, and inclusion workshops for businesses, nonprofits, and schools. She uses her skill in teaching to make it possible for workshop participants to turn knowledge into practice and integrates mindfulness practices to sustain the inner work necessary to contribute to systemic change.
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Indigenous Relations Consultant, FJS Program Participant
Beverly Castaneda is a practitioner of many healing modalities. She works with multiple Ancestral tools to provide healing for herself and others.
Over the past 12 years, she has walked in a Sacred way, which has helped her to recover from addiction and has brought healing to her mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies.
Beverly has Ancestral roots in the Ute, Diné, and Tibetan Cranial Medicine. As an Indigenous descendant of the original tribes of Boulder and Denver area, she serves her community as a Board of Directors, and Indigenous Relations Consultant internally and externally for Harvest of All First Nations.
Her mission is to bring reciprocity to the ancestors of the land by sharing intuitive messages, healing, balance, and forgiveness as we honor Mother Earth and the Cosmo's.
She is committed to passing down Indigenous Knowledge and Sacred Teachings. She has been learning and walking the path of the Aztec Traditions for 5 years, under the guidance of Yoloteotl Chalchihuitl and has received the sacred fire accordingly.
She is also an initiate of Oxalju Ochoch Tz’ikin – The House of the 13 Eagles – School of Maya Cosmology & Cosmic Investigation, taught by Maya Spiritual Guide/Priest Nataline R. Cruz, recognized and supported by the Elder Don Miguel Angel Chiquin Yat & La Asociación de Pueblos Mayas para el Desarollo y la Productividad “Manuel TOT” (Asomiya).
Beverly's personal mission is to continue to help bring healing and awareness to herself, her family, her Ancestors and her community. Her grand mission is to bring healing to Mother Earth and all her inhabitants, and to help Humanity to remember the connection they once had with nature, the natural order of co-existing and to return balance to both the planet and Humanity.
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Consultant for CESJ ProgramMichelle Gabrieloff-Parish is an ecotopian dreamer preoccupied with ancestors, art, environmental justice, and Earth (re)becoming a paradise. She’s a student and teacher of permaculture and ecological design and founded FLOWS, Candelas Glows, and the Once and Future Green. She has served as a US delegate for the Colorado River in San Luis del Rio Colorado, Mexico.
Michelle facilitates and consults for frontline communities as well as institutions to forward community-driven solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools through the OnceAndFutureGreen.com. She is a poet, currently featured in the “Indigenous Futurist Dreamscapes Lounge” at Meow Wolf Denver, is a wife, and mother of three.