Michelle has long brought together people who are re-imagining based on love. She co-created and weaves together a learning community of Jubilee College, Jubilee Railroad, and Jubilee Gift, a vibrant ecosystem of some of the world’s most creative people practicing to protect the sacred and to re-imagine money. For seventeen years prior, she led the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), a movement toward local economies and bioregionalism across North America, strengthening networks of local farmers, builders, and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds, to work together for the love of their places.

Themes in this episode include:

• Michelle’s background leading the international movement of local economies
• The meaning behind the name of Jubilee 
• How a deep study of and apprenticeship with gift economics led to the creation of Jubilee Gift 
• How money, as we’ve currently, collectively imagined it, will only advance scarcity and separation
• A new kind of economics based on reciprocity, interdependence, and gift can be the future
• Her journey of arriving to Dunsmuir and why Jubilee College is founded at this particular place on Earth
• The importance of reconnecting the wisdom of these mountain headwaters with the creative fire of the human spirit in the Bay
• The wave of new schools emerging across the planet
• What we can do to support the remembrance of our natural state of interdependence

In this episode, Michelle makes reference to Service Space and Jubilee Gift.  Learn more:

Service Space: https://www.servicespace.org/

Jubilee Gift: https://jubilee.gift

Credits:

Hosted by:  Srinija Srinivasan, Jubilee College Co-President 

Editing, engineering, and sound design: Ariella Cooley 

Produced by: Sarah Sullivan Xiong

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Orland Bishop is committed to the arts and sciences of Sacred Hospitality and serves within a global network of initiatives dedicated to the renewal of the Covenant with Life. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Shadetree Multicultural Foundation, a Los Angeles-based Civil Society Organization dedicated to creating agreements of the heart for societal development. The aim is the development of consciousness and healing of cultures.

Orland’s work in healing and human development is informed by an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology, and Indigenous cosmologies, primarily those of South and West Africa.

This episode explores wide-ranging themes including:

• Orland’s current personal inquires and dissolutions to meet the moment ahead 
• The nature of fire and what it means to tend prophetic fire 
• The development of consciousness and maturation of the astral body that occurs between ages 21-28
• The nature of will and how it must be employed to bring about certain futures 
• How the current landscape of creativity has reached its limits and is now creating more scarcity over anything else
• How a new kind of creative intelligence must bring forward new futures 
• How sacred hospitality is the way forward 

Credits:

Hosted by:  Srinija Srinivasan, Jubilee College Co-President 

Editing, engineering, and sound design: Ariella Cooley 

Produced by: Sarah Sullivan Xiong

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Chief Sisk is Tribal Chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, the tribe indigenous to the Mount Shasta region of Northern California along the Winnemem Waywacket (McCloud River). Chief Sisk is dedicated to carrying forward the language, wisdom traditions, and culture of the Winnemem people, with fervent focus as stewards of the land, plants, and animals her people have cared for for generations. In particular, she is renowned for her wisdom and knowledge for caretaking the Nur (wild salmon) indigenous to the region, and she works across Tribal, state, and federal governments to bring the Nur back from the brink of extinction.  Chief Sisk orients Jubilee College as an elder and keeper of sacred wisdom of the place Jubilee College exists on.

This episode explores wide-ranging themes including:

• How the pursuit of knowledge in the western sense has impacted and devastated our natural landscape
• How wisdom of place comes from generations of paying attention to a place
• How we have collectively forgotten the natural abundance of plants and animals that was once the norm
• What true happiness is
• The history of the Winnemem Wintu people including the impacts of genocide and forced re-education
• Winnemem Wintu people as stewards of the Mount Shasta region
• What it means to belong to a place 
• The impact of schooling on Indigeneity 
• The chance we still have to remember the abundance that is possible 
• How Jubilee College could be a part of this remembering 

Time Stamps:

(00:00) Episode Trailer

(00:40) Welcome to Chief Sisk

(01:53) Srinija Establishes her Relational Orientation to Chief Sisk

(11:53) What scholarship and knowledge have done to the natural world and what is needed now

(26:20) Belonging to Mount Shasta and the cosmology of the Winnemem Wintu

(54:08) Education versus Initiation and the lasting impact of genocide and forced re-education on the Winnemem Wintu

(01:21:26) Chief Sisk reflects on the life stage of 18-24 year olds as the highest potential

(01:27:13) Chief Sisk on saving her culture and traditions

(01:29:50) Responsibility to the world space you hold

Credits:

Hosted by:  Srinija Srinivasan, Jubilee College Co-President 
Editing, engineering, and sound design: Ariella Cooley 
Produced by: Sarah Sullivan Xiong

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College Co-Presidents Srinija Srinivasan and Don Shaffer introduce the mission and spirit of Jubilee College, a new two-year school at the base of Mount Shasta that gives equal weight to study, work, and inner development. They also share the business model that makes it possible to offer the college tuition-free, in the spirit of gift.

In this episode:

- The mission behind Jubilee College
- How the college came to be
- Balancing study, work, and inner development
- Fostering other kinds of intelligence, not only the mind
- The business model, and how a tuition-free college works in the spirit of gift

About the hosts:

Born in India and raised in Kansas, Srinija Srinivasan's bicultural upbringing sparked a lifelong curiosity about consciousness, from the arts to artificial intelligence. After working in foundational AI at the Cyc Project, she joined Yahoo! as their fifth employee, where for over 15 years, initially as Ontological Yahoo then Editor in Chief, her work centered on the human experience. She also chaired the board of non-profit SFJAZZ, and her twin experiences in tech and the arts led her to co-found Loove, a Brooklyn-based music venture exploring how artistic values can guide our markets, rather than market values leading our culture. She is a board member of the On Being Project and a former vice chair of Stanford University's Board of Trustees.

Don Shaffer comes from Quaker ancestors in the Philadelphia area. He lives by "judge not" and "no enemy." He has co-led shifts in consciousness at the leading edge of what's next: integrated capital, regenerative agriculture, B Corporations. Don loves to work with money, because it is so challenging to do! As CEO of RSF Social Finance for many years, and in similar roles before and since, Don has experimented practically with the question, "What if we brought a spirit of gift into each and every financial transaction?"

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