About the Cohort
The Dandelion Arts Finance Program’s Re-Generation Cohort brings together Bay Area artists, media-makers, cultural workers, and culture bearers to re-imagine the role of money in their lives and movements during an 8-month cohort.
Rooted in ancestral knowledge, peer-led learning, and solidarity, the program focuses on demystifying finance, reframing labor and worth, and building tools for equitable, liberated futures.
This is not a traditional financial literacy program. Participants in the Dandelion Re-Generation Cohort engage in critical unlearning, spiritual reckoning, and community-based experimentation—centering systems of resource sharing, value recognition, and financial self-determination. We believe money is not the enemy; when grounded in equity and intention, it can be a force for healing, safety, creative risk-taking, and systemic change.
During the cohort, participants explore and release fears and insecurities around money in an intimate, supportive environment with peers. Each participant designs a project grounded in their values and approach to money, then shares it with the community. Our goal is for participants to leave feeling empowered, connected, and resourced.
We especially welcome women, POC, immigrants, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized creatives committed to building abundance mindsets, community-centered practices, and cultural rerooting to dismantle capitalist trauma.
The Dandelion Re-Generation Cohort is currently facilitated by Josie Santiago of Akili Well and Cohort Alumni Sabereh Kashi and Mason J.
Participants who complete the Re-Generation Cohort will also be invited to join the Dandelion Community Advisory Board.
