Decolonizing Social
Change Communications
Reshaping communications, media, tech, and organizing to advance liberatory social change.
Let's get to the roots of our world to build our own agency to create change!
We offer a variety of solutions to support organizations and activists to build sustainability & strategy into their organizing and storytelling.
Ways of Working
Money shouldn't be a barrier to getting the support you need to advance social justice. We offer multiple ways of working with us to meet your unique needs and budget.
Media, Podcast, & Memberships
If you're like me, you recognize our world is on 
, our institutions are crumbling, and 
you want to do something about it. (add songs of resistance to your playlists)
Too many activists and organizations are building paths to a new sustainable, equitable society with little support and resources. Our goal is to make social change storytelling accessible and sustainable for all through our media and affordable membership options. We offer a variety of resources depending on how you relate to and participate in social change.
Weekly Digest
Navigate social change activism in today's uncertain digital world. We offer grounded media and resources for heart-first activists, movement leaders, and communicators to stay human while creating liberatory change big and small.
Find the Newsletters Right For You
Podcast
Navigating heart-first activism & storytelling. Host Sam Chavez (she/they/he) connects with organizations, campaigns, and social change communicators who are boldly creating change in today's social, political, tech & media landscape. Plus, our private podcast let's guests go deeper and offer strategic advice away from the prying eyes of Big Tech. Get the private podcast starting at $2/month.
Listen, Find, & Follow Our Podcast
Seedling & Flowering Memberships
Get ongoing support and deeper conversations from organizers, artists, & storytellers on our private podcast. Plus, you're supporting independent, healthy media! We challenge the status quo of communications and organizing by deepening connection and speaking to real humans by real humans. Learn strategies and communications fundamentals that connect.
Weekly Communications & Tech Tips & Strategies Private Podcast with Deeper Learning & Special Guests
On-the-go Learning to Build Capacity in Your Work
Full Resource Hub of Planning Resources
Strategy Workshop Library
Private Signal Chat
Explore MembershipsWorkshops & Gatherings
Learn and grow in real-time with fellow activists and social change communicators.
Workshop video library
Our past recorded workshops are always available to Flowering Members through our Resource Hub. Get quick tips and longer workshops for your organizing, communications, tech, & strategy needs.
On Site Lunch & Learns and Private Workshops
Learn & deepen your strategic communications with a 1-hour in-person learning & strategy workshop. Lunch can be provided by Casa Chavez as requested! Popular topics include:
- Finding Your Story
- Deep Canvassing Training
- Content Vision & Theme
- Amplification Strategies
- Media & Personal Story Building
- Cyber Security 101
- Amplifying Events Off & Online
- Expanding Capacity without AI
Explore available workshop topics for organizations, activists, & community.
Connection is more important than ever. We host regular in-person office hours & gatherings in the Bay Area and beyond. Join our dedicated newsletter for Bay Area organizers.
Bay Area Workshops & Gatherings
Interested in a private workshop for your team? Contact us.
Coaching & Strategy
Empowering communicators to achive their goals, while staying human.
My coaching offerings have come about organically as I’ve recognized the best ways to share my varied experiences across marketing, film, organizing, media, and more to help support folks creating change.
Our coaching sessions are designed to evolve and best meet you and your organization’s needs. I aim to empower communicators to meet their goals while staying human and aligned with their values. Scroll down for more information on my coaching offerings.
StrategIC COaching
Our coaching sessions are designed to evolve and best meet you and your organization’s needs.
- Strategic Communications
- Social Change Storytelling
- Digital Activation/Outreach
- Tech Geek Needs
- Project Management
- Interpersonal/Team Relationships
- Somatic Grounding
I love working with passionate communicators & organizers who want to work aligned with their values and want to create change in a healthy and future-focused way. We offer at a team and individual level. Learn more about our coaching approach.
Contact us to discuss unique pricing and scoping depending on your needs.
Filmmaker Production & Editing
Create engaging & informative videos for your organization, events, & programs on-the-go. Get affordable video that aligns with your vision & stays human.
While I love all kinds of storytelling and mediums, my first love has always been film. I'm getting back to my roots and my Radio-Television-Film degree from the University of Texas at Austin to amplify filmmaker-quality video for organizations and grassroots movements. Let's tell your story and envision a future for all of us!
360° Approach
- Strategic Vision
- Quality equipment
- On Site/Off Site Video Capture
- Filmmaker-level Editing
- Social & Video Best Practices
- No AI!
Bear and Sam Chavez at the University of Texas at Austin, 2025
Interested in our services?
If you have questions about our services or have a specific issue you'd need to solve and are unsure what services are right for you. Get in touch and we can collaborate about what works for you!
Our work is done through reciprocity. Please fill out the pre-scheduling questions so that we can use our 15 minutes most effectively.
Resources for the People
Get back to storytelling with our tools built to streamline work. Make your outreach work easier with our interactive guides, worksheets, & templates for movements and organizations of all sizes. *Note: we are currently working on migrating our templates to secure alternatives to Google Docs & Microsoft services.
