Radically Rooted Care
Logistics from a Black Feminist Perspective
Radically Rooted Care partners with justice-focused organizations to infuse convenings & retreats with a Care Logistics framework that will not only actualize the goals of the gathering, but also asks partner organizations to embody liberatory ways of working. Radically Rooted Care is the Care Strategist your team needs.
And it all begins with the choice to gather.
Whether in-person, virtual, or a hybrid model. Whether it’s a restful retreat or a jam-packed convening, our desire to gather is rooted in our appetite for meaningful connection as we work towards more resourced and liberated futures.
The ways in which we gather are not just a means to an end, but a process that reflects our values, our priorities, the conditions of our movements & world, as well as our commitment to each other.
Care, Logistics, and Operations all become fertile soil for embodiment, practice, and the possibility of real-time movement victories.
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We believe how we gather are ripe opportunities to live into and operationalize our values. And we believe when the conditions of how and where we work are resourced & dignified, it begets access to our wholeness, creative leadership, and deeper capacity.
For RRC, this looks like the integration of beauty & culture, play & joy, family & loved ones, Land & Lineage, Spirit & legacy, political education, embodiment practices and more.
RRC brings together the expertise from facilitation experiences & administrative teams with Black feminist care for a holisitic experience.
Through this process, we believe individuals, teams & our movements are transformed.
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RRC partners with leaders & organizations who have audacious goals for our world, and are interested in creating gatherings that buttress & enliven that larger purpose.
You can count on RRC to bring:
Humor
Curiosity
Rigor with grace
Keen self-awareness
Relationship-centered approaches
Commitment to accountability & feedback
Creative & collaborative solutions to challenges
Expertise that melds what is needed for front-of-the-room facilitation & back-of-the-room holding
Detailed-oriented approach with a view of the whole
Movement Knowledge & Intersectional Frameworks
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We partner best with those who are:
Bringing humor & heart to their work
Interested in strong, collaborative partnerships
Valuing humanistic ways of working over transactional
Prioritizing rigorous practice over perfectionism & performance
Willing to approach processes with curiosity & strength-based frameworks
Excited to identify & respond to gaps between our values & our practices
Ready to co-create a culture that resources, values, and uplifts the importance of care logistics work
Committed to understanding how identity, power, and privilege impact our work, decision-making & how we function as a team
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In the last 3 years, RRC has led Care Logistics for over 15 Retreats & Gatherings, holding over 100 Justice Leaders.
100% of our partners have found Radically Rooted Care exceeded expectations in the following categories:
Timeliness
Fulfillment of Work Expectations
Collaboration
Creative Problem-Solving
Communication
Professionalism
Meet the Founder
ramelcy uribe (she/they, ella/elle)
Care Strategist | Facilitator | Language Justice Practitioner
Radically Rooted Care is born from my unwavering commitment to resource and partner with our movements and our people.
I am a care strategist, community worker, and certified Healing Centered Coach. With over a decade of experience in consciousness raising education, facilitation, programming ideation & implementation, as well as team creation and management, I bring a range of expertise to my partnerships.
I bring a sharp political analysis to my work, rooted in Healing Justice, Language Justice, Disability Justice, and Black Feminist frameworks that allow me to deepen operational questions and liberatory ways of working. While “titles” across my job history may vary, the throughline continues to be working within movements committed to ending gender based violence and movements with an unwavering dedication to collective liberation.
As a real nerd for operationalizing care in our movements, I facilitate processes that invite curiosity, relationship building, and praxis in service of expanding teams’ capacity and aligning more rigorously with our values.
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But before any role in movement work, I root myself within my family and community. Before Black feminisms gave me language and grounding, it was just living in a queer Black Dominican body in The Bronx that gifted me the lens to understand the world around me.
Being a daughter to a bubbly and hardworking, immigrant mama taught me about labor extraction, language injustice, and xenophobia. But it was also those same experiences that taught me about networks of care, the language of solidarity, and the power of community.
My momma was one of my first teachers in care -- a domestic worker, home health aid, and the kind of vecina who consistently was part of other single parents’ village. My mother took and still takes incredible pride in the ways she has cared for elders and young ones. With excellence, attention, humor, intuitive wisdom, and diligence, my mother’s work and enjoyment of that work would contextualize the “background” work I would later identify with and revel in. And it is because of that spark, I would later discover Ella Baker and Bayard Rustin as my movement heroes.
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Being a sister, a vecina, a young caregiver, and a fierce friend have all been sites of practice, accountability, and mutual care. They have taught me the life-giving power of laughter, humility, love across time and false borders, and a long-term commitment to our collective dignity. And so, when movement has broken my heart, or burnout and overwhelm have felt insurmountable, it has been these relationships that have tended to me and given me evidence that we can and should experience healing and liberation in our purpose, in our bodies, and in our lifetimes.
If you'd like to learn more about my work on Care Logistics, I invite you to explore these co-authored resources: Caring for the Movement: Black Feminist Care Logistics and Language Justice Reflections Workbook.
Both are available in English and Spanish.