Camino with Desiree Hammond

Desiree Hammond is a third-generation Arizonan Black Chicana with over a decade of experience in nonprofit leadership, women’s advocacy, and wellness. She currently works at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and has previously worked with Greater Tucson Leadership, The Dunbar Pavilion, and Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona in program and operations roles focused on expanding community impact. Desiree has also served as a board member and commissioner with the Tucson Shambhala Meditation Center and the Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission, and is a graduate of State of Black Arizona’s African American Leadership Institute and Greater Tucson Leadership’s Lead Tucson program.

Beyond her nonprofit work, Desiree is a certified yoga instructor, somatic practitioner, and full-spectrum doula. She has collaborated with human rights activist and professor Loretta J. Ross on the “Calling In” framework and was featured in the University of Arizona’s Afro-Chicanx Digital Humanities Storytelling Project. She also co-produced and co-directed Unerased: Stories of Black Tucsonans. A pleasure activist and holistic health enthusiast, Desiree is dedicated to creating inclusive spaces that center wellness, somatics, art, and healing justice.