Hidden Leaf Foundation

Our Mission Hidden Leaf promotes inner awareness within liberatory movements in order to advance a more just, ecologically healthy and compassionate society. We believe that when organizations, leaders, movements, and foundations cultivate inner awareness and tend to the spiritual as well as the strategic, the power we build with others and the changes we engender are deeper, more lasting, and more likely to heal the historical injustices that shape our current relationship to the Earth and to each other. Our Vision We envision a future of joy, love, justice, and collective liberation. In this future, power and resources are shared equitably, and everyone has the space and support they need to realize their potential, build community, weather hardships, and fulfill their dreams; people and planet exist in a sustainable relationship and society operates from a sense of sacredness and responsibility for future generations. Our Team Hidden Leaf is governed by a board of two family members and two community members. We have a staff of three. It is our intention to practice the value of power sharing as core to transformation, especially within our own structure. To that end, we hired our first non-family, woman-of-color Executive Director, Supriya Lopez Pillai, in 2018. As a further expression of our commitment to shifting power, we invited Supriya to join the board in 2020. The following year, we expanded our board to include Alta Starr, a somatics practitioner currently working with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) with deep experience in the communities that Hidden Leaf supports.