Speaker Spotlight—Ponkho Bermejo, Adrienne Sigmon, and Amy Cantrell, BeLoved Asheville Co-Directors

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Month: July | Theme: End

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your practice. 
We try to practice love in concrete form in our community every day.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Ponkho:  A Deep Thinker  Adrienne:  Marine Biologist  Amy: Ice Cream Truck Driver

What is the best part and hardest part of your job?
Creating community is glorious.  Witnessing people in your community crushed by oppression is deeply painful.

What on-the-job tools do you use every day?
Community, passion, imagination, commitment, learning names, conversations, circles of chairs, laughter, hammer, paint brushes, cooking pots, camera, blow torch, guitar,  power drill, megaphone, pallet wood, community altar, drums, seeds.

What about your community inspires you?
Our community’s stories flow like medicine.  The every day experiences and actions of people inspire us.

What is the best piece of business advice you’ve been given?
You have to fail often to figure out how something wants to be.  

If you were magically given three more hours per day, what would you do with them?
Spend an hour with a child.  Spend an hour with an elder.  Spend an hour more creating change.