Hi, I’m ALYSSA SMALDINO.

I’m an anti-racism organizer, facilitator and coach committed to discovering and practicing new ways of being that help us break free of dominant systems. I draw on over a decade of multifaceted experiences in global health, public administration and community organizing to form connections and curate spaces that nurture imagination and courage among people paving the way for a healthier future.

My Approach

I started my career asking the question: what would it take for everyone, everywhere to live a healthy life?

Since then, I’ve worked alongside thousands of changemakers—as a leader in global youth networks, an activist in grassroots liberation movements, and a facilitator of spaces for anti-racist organizers to imagine and co-create equitable systems. I’ve learned that to build a healthier world, we have to reckon with our shared history and commit to building new systems and cultures.

grounding in history

We start with the grief of the violence inflicted on Black and indigenous people by white colonizers, and the fact that today’s status quo was born from that violence. A status quo where white people continue to benefit from the resources that colonizers pillaged and hoarded to build the resource-rich but deeply inequitable society we have today.

Building anew

With an acceptance and interrogation of truth as a foundation, we can build a society beyond violence and suffering. I envision that society to value indigeneity, to offer healing spaces that make prisons and policing obsolete, and to hold care and mutuality as central to our economy.

My work is to make it easier for us to uncover sick roots and plant new possibilities.


To learn more about me and my values & principles, check out my newsletter, care culture.