About Us
our mission: Climate Justice
FLOWS works towards social & environmental justice by reclaiming ecological wisdom, celebrating cultural wealth and leadership, & creating economic opportunities towards a Just Transition. We build community capacity, beautify environments, & transform systems for justice and resilience led by & for People of Color, Immigrants, affordable housing residents, LGBTQIA+ & Frontline communities.
Meet the team
Climate Justice Community Council
FLOWS is by and for community for Climate Justice. We center and value our communities and utilize an assets-based approach that values our leadership, knowledge and practices. Our FLOWS Team members are amazing Frontline community members and leaders who are each dedicated to growing their leadership, supporting Frontline community leadership and community-building, programs and initiatives. Some of our team members lead their own organizations, also aligned with Climate Justice and resilience. Our FLOWS Team members are stipended for their participation because we value their time, energy and input into helping shape and guide our programming, initiatives and projects.
Adriana Palacios
Alejandro Murillo
Alonzo Barron Ortiz
Andrea Yoloteotl Nawage
Angela Maria Ortiz Roa
Dai Kato
Dominique Rowell
Elizabeth Achulo
Henry Torres
Ingrid Castro-Campos
Natalie Rake
Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish
Tim Beal: Founding Partner
Adriana Palacios
Alejandro Murillo
Alonzo Barron Ortiz
Andrea Yoloteotl Nawage
Angela Maria Ortiz Roa
Dai Kato
Dominique Rowell
Elizabeth Achulo
Henry Torres
Ingrid Castro-Campos
Natalie Rake
Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish
Tim Beal
Tim Beal
Founding Partner
Tim Beal is the Director of Sustainable Communities for Boulder Housing Partners and a founding partner of FLOWS. Since 2016, Tim has supported, brainstormed, planned, and worked alongside FLOWS. Tim is leading BHP to become one of the first Net Zero housing authorities in the country, while ensuring resident engagement and leadership comes first.
Leadership Team
FLOWS’ Leadership Team includes our founder Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish, Rinchen Indya Love, and Gabriela Galindo. Together, we helped launch FLOWS as a nonprofit to effectively work and build up our communities, our way. We each bring a wealth of Climate Justice knowledge and are rooted in our cultures and our service to transform our relationships to nature, community, and to a green and just future and economy. We are each active and dedicated to many social and environmental justice initiatives within and outside of FLOWS.
Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish
Founder & Director
info@weareflows.org
Michelle brings over 28 years of experience uniting sustainability and social justice. She is a former US State Department BoldFood fellow (Uganda) and acted as a US delegate for the Colorado River in Mexico. Michelle has served on the Colorado Water Equity Partnership, and the State of Colorado’s Biochar for Oil and Gas Plugging Working Advisory. She has studied intensively with Joana Macy as a facilitator for the “Work That Reconnects” and is a permaculture teacher and student. She is a poet, currently featured at Meow Wolf Denver. As founder of FLOWS’ partner “Once and Future Green,” she consults for and trains Frontline communities, governments, and institutions for Climate Justice and community-driven climate solutions with anti-oppression and ecological design tools.
Michelle founded FLOWS in 2016 to highlight and build Frontline community leadership in sustainability and beyond. She guides FLOWS visioning, planning, and programming rooted in environmental justice and permaculture design.
Rinchen Indya Love
Program Manager
rinchen@weareflows.org
Rinchen’s childhood was spent amidst the awe-inspiring Himalayan foothills of India, instilling in her a reverence for the sanctity of nature and the interconnectedness of all living beings.
In 2017, she joined FLOWS (Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability), as a volunteer and eventually became the Program Coordinator. At FLOWS, Rinchen engages in in-depth explorations of social and climate injustices, particularly with marginalized communities such as People of Color, immigrants, and underinvested communities – communities to which she belongs.
Rinchen serves on the City of Boulder’s Guaranteed Income Task Force, the Boulder County Climate Policy Action Leadership Collaborative, and is board secretary for Harvest of all First Nations.
Gabriela Galindo
Program Coordinator
gabi@weareflows.org
Gabriela Galindo is a weaving of various Mexican Indigenous lineages including Nahua and Wixárika, Spanish and African lineages. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Science in Human Nutrition, she went on to offer nutrition education in public health, realizing the interconnectedness of our personal health to that of our communities and ecosystems.
Gabriela completed farm and seed saving apprenticeships and learned about the inequities pervading farming and food systems. She completed the Mountain Herbalism Field Botany course, visiting Rocky Mountain ecosystems and helped guide conversations around the impacts of colonization and the global climate crisis on land, plants and people. She advocates for the preservation and protection of Indigenous medicines, cultures and traditions as critical solutions for the global climate crisis. She is an Aztec dancer and Sahumadora with Grupo Tlahuitzcalli.
our partners
Key Partners
Once and Future Green
Once And Future Green’s Co-Founder and Principal, Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish, is FLOWS’ founder and continued partner in service to our shared mission and vision. O&FG supports the vision, design, programming, and planning of FLOWS, bringing strategic leadership, sustainability, social equity, Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, permaculture, deep ecology, movement, alternative pedagogies, emergence, creativity and transformation for all into our work.
Boulder Housing Partners
BHP is a founding partner of FLOWS. Through BHP’s Director for Sustainable Communities Tim Beal, BHP continues to be a key part of our day to day work and supports the vision, programming, and planning of FLOWS. BHP acts as Boulder’s Housing Authority. BHP residents, the Colorado River, and its communities were the original inspiration for FLOWS.
Partner Community & Supporters
We Are a Partner Project of CNDC
After 7 successful years at CU Boulder, we are ready to support Climate Justice even more powerfully. In April of 2024, FLOWS became a fiscally sponsored of CNDC.
