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 Applications for ILI Year 3 are now being accepted from established and emerging artists, culture bearers and other arts practitioners in various stages of career development.
Due to the pandemic, ILI will be a completely virtual experience. Participants will be able to participate via video call, phone, independent and group study, and by snail mail. In light of the nature of self isolation/quarantine and political uprisings in our society, ILI is committed to centering participant self care through and creating a culture of flexibility through the fellowship experience.  Suzy González and César Ramos - ILI Fellows from Year 2 - teamed up to lead the creation of zines from each of the three ILI on-site intensives. With the creativity and perspective of contributing Fellows, these zines give a different artistic view of the experience. In a recent interview, Suzy told us more about this collaborative project.
 ILI Partners Announce $5 Million
Crisis Relief Grants for Arts & Culture Leaders Five organizations receive funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to re-grant to artists, culture bearers and other arts practitioners in the face of economic crisis. 8/27/20 – The Partners of the Intercultural Leadership Institute announced today the launch of a $5 Million Crisis Relief Grants program funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The one-year funding will be distributed among the organizations Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples Fund, National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, PA’I Foundation and Sipp Culture to directly re-grant within the communities each non-profit organization supports. SPECIAL ONLINE PRESENTATION: SUPER BLUES color Lux bath (r) muthi reed & (l) Angela Davis Johnson New work from ILI Alum muthi reed. Presented on this year’s Juneteenth celebration of freedom and resilience, Scribe Video Center hosts a special performance of remote meditation and dreaming using sound and video. Super Blues color Lux bath is an aural and sonic play considering the implications of grief, connection, loss, meditation, the Blues, crisis, revolution, change, breath, heart, vulnerability, kinship, Eros and tonality.
by ILI Fellow Alum Theo E.J. Wilson Get a first-hand perspective on the ILI experience from this Year 2 ILI Fellow alum. “Adventure often announces itself with a whisper; the magnificent disguised as the mundane” - Unknown. Theo & ILI Fellow Alum Lauren Fitzgerald When I saw ILI alum, Bobby LeFebre, post the open call for submissions to the Intercultural Leadership Institute, I almost scrolled right past it. I thought it was for LatinX activists only. The opportunity looked great, but having the utmost respect for the culture, I didn’t want to infringe. He quickly clarified that it was open to far more than just LatinX applicants, and for me to take the chance and apply. I felt silly for not reading further into the details. We had a good laugh, and I applied.
UPDATE:Due to uncertainty during the COVID-19 crisis, we are re-evaluating the dates for ILI Year 3 intensive convenings. We are still eager to hear from artists, culture bearers and other arts professionals while we take these steps:
We will continue to notify you of new developments as they emerge.  We are excited to release the interest form guidelines for the third cohort of the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI), a collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples Fund, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) and PA’I Foundation. As leaders of these organizations, we have grown together, built trust with one another time over time and developed a shared analysis of the need for a leadership program of, by and for the artists and culture bearers in our communities. ILI is the result of our collaborative effort and we invite you to spread the word and encourage great potential participants to submit interest for the 2020-21 cohort. Thank you! Michelle Ramos, Alternate ROOTS Executive Director
Lori Pourier, First Peoples Fund President & CEO Maria López DeLeón, NALAC President & CEO Vicky Takamine, PA’I Foundation Executive Director Carlton Turner, Sipp Culture (founding member of ILI Partners Team) Staying Healthy, Secure & Connected During this rapidly changing time, the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) Partners & Facilitators want to share important information related to our dedication to arts & culture leaders and intercultural connection. "Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."
- Frida Kahlo  Black Coyote in Blue by Robert Martinez Robert Martinez is an ILI Fellow Alum from 2018/19. We caught up with him to hear about what he's doing now.
 As the new year proceeds, and as I look towards a year of arts, culture, and all that those things encompass, I move forward knowing there is still much more to do. Combining social justice and creativity has been a testament to my relentless fire to form relationships and co conspire as a change agent.
 Drawing the Ensō by Shin Yu Pai, ILI Fellow Alum
I chose the title Ensō for my forthcoming book because it expresses both the practice of trying to make a thing perfect, and by implication the possibility of imperfection. Symbolic of the Japanese word for “circle” and evocative of Zen Buddhist practice, I wanted a name and a shape that could hold the various parts of my work as an artist. In May 2019, ILI Partner the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) hosted the final of three place-based intensives for ILI Fellows in San Antonio, TX. The five-day leadership immersion brought together the second cohort of ILI Fellows for shared learning, personal exchange and to be immersed in a living Mexican-American culture grounded in indigeneity.  2018/19 ILI Fellows Cohort, Partners and Facilitators at ILI San Antonio intensive. Photo: Melisa Cardona 
Welcome Message at ILI San Antonio by María López De León, President and CEO, NALAC On behalf of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), I welcome you to San Antonio! We are proud to be hosting the Intercultural Leadership Institute as NALAC celebrates its 30th Anniversary; three decades of supporting Latinx arts and culture from our base on San Antonio’s historic WestSide.
Evonne Gallardo is the ILI Host Facilitator for San Antonio, the location for the third and final of three place-based intensives for the ILI Fellows. She shared her thoughts about the vision for what an intercultural framework and methodology might look like and how her own understanding of interculturality influenced her work at ILI San Antonio.  Photo: Melisa Cardona ILI Fellow Carol Zou shares her thoughts on ILI Intensives.  ILI Fellows, including Carol Zou (left) and Edyka Chilomé (right) during ILI Intensive #2 in Hawai’i. Photo: Melisa Cardona 2018 was the year I lovingly nicknamed
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