About the Culture Tending Commons
The Culture Tending Commons is a collective practice space rooted in care, equity, and shared power—a co-creation between AllThrive Education and Tree of Change. We believe culture is created and we can create the cultures we want and need. We know the cultures we create must also be nurtured through solidarity and shared vision.
We make facilitation tools accessible to all, trusting in the wisdom already present in our communities. Everyone teaches, everyone learns. Through peer exchange and democratized leadership, we build spaces where trust can grow, vulnerability is welcome, and emotional labor is honored.
Our approach is intersectional and relational. We build bridges between movements, geographies, and generations—centering those most impacted by harm and systemic failure. We prioritize curiosity over expectation, autonomous community action over imposed models, and collective resilience over isolated effort.
Whether we're supporting frontline organizers, artists, cultural workers, or community-led initiatives, the Commons is where we come together to tend culture—not as a product, but as a practice. We're here to build something lasting: not just change, but the conditions that make transformation possible.
Culture Tending Commons Equity Statement
We are committed to dismantling systems of oppression and supporting movements for self-determination.
We affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals, centering principles of consent, autonomy, and agency while standing in solidarity with movements for land back, abolition, reparations, labor rights, bodily autonomy, and more.
We believe that true liberation is a collective effort, requiring mutual care and the active co-creation of a just world.
Join Us in Creating a Culture of Renewal
These resources are just the beginning of our journey together. Each month, you'll receive our newsletter with additional practices, wisdom from our community, and opportunities to deepen our collective work.
Remember, in a world designed to make us small:
We choose expansion.
We choose sensation.
We choose connection.
We choose liberation—not just as future goal, but as present practice.
Together, we are not just dreaming of a new world—we are becoming it, breath by breath, movement by movement, heart by collective heart.
About the Culture Tending Collective Founding Members
CRYSTAL MASON
Crystal Mason (one half of Tree of Change) is a dedicated activist, artist, cultural worker, mediator, and consultant committed to fostering spaces for envisioning and realizing a more just and equitable world. With over three decades of experience, Crystal's work traverses the intersections of race, gender, class, ability, sexuality, art, and culture. With a wealth of experience and a steadfast commitment to equity and justice, Crystal Mason continues to inspire and empower through their multifaceted activism, artistry, & advocacy.
VANESSA RODRIGUEZ MINERO
Vanessa Rodriguez Minero is responsible for coordinating the AllThrive Education team and developing a healthy work culture. Prior to AllThrive Education they worked in city government as a constituent liaison, led recruitment efforts for a national storytelling campaign on TPS and DACA, and supported grants processing at a philanthropy. They studied government and Mexican American Studies at UT Austin and learned about community care and vulnerable strength from their time as an undocu youth organizer. They believe that the tools and strategies for collective liberation already exist: in the hearts, wisdom, care, & imagination of BIPOC communities.
WENDY MARTINEZ-MORROQUIN
In 2018, Wendy Martinez Morroquin co-founded AllThrive Education in direct response to first-hand discrimination and violence she experienced as an unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant, and in gratitude of the healing and support she received from community organizations. Wendy has 7+ years of experience facilitating empathic learning spaces that enable courageous self-inquiry and holistic growth. She has trained hundreds of city employees, educators, and prospective adoptive parents in equity, inclusion, implicit bias, and cross-cultural relationship and trust building. Wendy holds a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies
from the University of California Berkeley, a certificate in teaching Yoga Therapeutics, & is a trained Restorative Justice practitioner.
JASON WYMAN / QUEERLY COMPLEX
Jason Wyman, also known as Queerly Complex (and one half of Tree of Change and a consultant with AllThrive Education), was born upon the Land of 10,000 Lakes on what E is coming to know as Turtle Island, who has settled on Yelamu, which is also called San Francisco. Jason's name means healer, or so he's been told since a young child, and they did not believe it until Eir father, Michael (Mike) James Wyman, and him mended their selves and one another as Mike died of mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma across a screen and a country over all of 2020. What E has come to understand as the significance of his name is that healer does not mean healed or (even) healing. Rather, it is a positionality within the cosmos that allows one's self to change & be changed by all that unfolds.
