This is week six of our campaign: we are almost there and we can’t reach it without you.

Please help us to support change makers like these who are working as grassroots activists and/or creating the intellectual infrastructure for movements contributing to a more sustainable and just world.

Donations of $125 and above qualify you and a friend to come to our homecoming picnic June 15 as our guests and be entered into a drawing for a complementary DIY retreat.

This week: meet Malcolm Margolin.

Malcolm Margolin, Advisory Committee, Mesa Refuge Alum 2017
Author and Founder, Heyday Books

I’ve written several books and founded a number of institutions devoted to natural history, literature, and culture of California. A major source of inspiration has been my longtime involvement with California’s indigenous communities.

Immersion does not necessarily lead to clarity. (There’s a wonderful adage that a virgin is not the best person to describe virginity.) Mesa Refuge gave me the distance I needed to write an account of a magazine I founded thirty years earlier, “News from Native California.” My residency combined this needed distance with the beauty of the surrounding, the stimulation of other writers, and the sense of being valued, contributing to a productive experience (read more).

Please help us support change makers like Malcolm by donating to our Spring 2019 fundraising campaign.