Our Team Members

Our Team Members

Our Consultants

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.


  • Consultant for CESJ Program

    Michelle 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.