Nicole Wires (she/her) was born on Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Ute land in the beautiful Rocky Mountains and is a mountain creature through and through. The majority of her political and spiritual awakening happened on Ohlone land, through prison abolition, anti-mass incarceration, and racial justice movement organizing, and connection to mult-racial, radical sangha at the East Bay Meditation Center. She practices in a Theravadin lineage, drawing most strongly from the Thai Forest and Burmese vipassana traditions. After spending ten years supporting folks returning from San Quentin Prison at Planting Justice, Nicole is currently facilitating collective self-governance to dismantle the Nonprofit Industrial Complex with the Nonprofit Democracy Network and organizing to end fossil fuel extraction with the Sunrise Project's FixMyFunds campaign. She is a student of plants, trees, mountains, dance, and movements. She is dedicated to reclaiming ancestral right relationship to land and community through the recognition of our profound interdependence.