Spotlight
Our dedicated space for action and affirmation.
We showcase the initiatives, projects, and mission-aligned businesses that are successfully driving OGA’s vision forward.
This is where we celebrate tangible impact, highlighting what they do, how they work, and why we love them.
Explore innovative models, sustainable practices, and collaborations that embody regenerative and systemic change across our web.
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Chief Tapi Yawalapiti: Guardian of the Upper Xingu Legacy
Tapi Yawalapiti is the Chief and Guardian of the Upper Xingu Legacy, carrying forward the mission of his late father, the revered Chief Aritana. He leads the Yawalapiti people and the Instituto Aritana to protect the Upper Xingu’s forests, rivers, and cultural survival. Tapi is a globally recognized Indigenous leader, blending ancestral wisdom with modern advocacy. His work focuses on regeneration, cultural preservation, and fighting for Indigenous rights and autonomy in Brazil.
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Ashira Darwish: Healing as Resistance
Ashira Darwish is a Palestinian trauma healer and activist who embodies healing as an act of resistance. Having survived severe torture and detention, she founded Catharsis Holistic Healing, pioneering culturally sensitive psychological spaces for her people. She uses her voice and story to advocate for justice and collective liberation on a global stage.
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Instituto Despertare and Projeto Pétalas: Nurturing Inclusion, Empathy, and Transformation
We are honored to spotlight the Instituto Despertare de Ação Social e Cultural, a nonprofit organization in Brazil fully dedicated to building a more inclusive, compassionate, and culturally rich society.
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Nego Bispo: The Earth Gives, The Earth Wants — The Meeting of Quilombola Wisdom with Pindorama
“The Earth Gives, The Earth Wants” is Nego Bispo’s manifesto proposing Countercolonialism and Diversality as a response to Euro-Christian Cosmophobia. Enjoy Bispo’s organic knowledge and his deep connection with Pindorama (tupi-guarani indigenous, precolonial name for Brazil).
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Owner of My Flow (Dona do Meu Fluxo): Advancing Female Autonomy and Menstrual Dignity Across Latin America
We proudly highlight the work of Dona do Meu Fluxo (Owner of My Flow), a transformative initiative advancing female empowerment and menstrual dignity across Brazil and Latin America.
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Carlinha Yanomami: Where Feminine Ancestral Wisdom Meets Leadership
Carlinha Yanomami is the tireless and fantastic president of the Yanomami Women’s Association Kumirayoma (AMYK), leading with ancestral wisdom in the Amazon. Guided by the spirit of Kumirayoma, she drives essential projects to secure autonomy for her fellow women within their territories, while preserving Yanomami peoples’ traditions.
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.
Lilla Watson (Indigenous Murri Elder of the First Nations of Sahul Continent, 1970)
