Isa Marie Garcia

Cultural Worker

Isa is building a future where care is energetic and collective, woven intentionally into how we gather with joy, laughter, and movement.

SOCIAL FUTURES

DISTRICT 9

ABOUT ISA

Isa is a community-based artist, organizer, and cultural worker rooted in the Mission District of San Francisco. As the daughter of immigrants raised within working-class communities, Isa came to understand that care, survival, and creativity are deeply interconnected. She was shaped by community spaces rooted in mutual aid, cultural expression, and people showing up for one another when systems fall short.

As a first-generation queer Latine person and artistic storyteller at heart, she uses photography and multidisciplinary artistic practices as tools for communication, storytelling, and resistance. Her work lives at the intersection of art, culture, and activism — and through organizing, public art, and visual storytelling, she has helped create spaces where people come together to share resources, build trust, honor grief and resilience, and imagine safer, more connected futures.

INTERESTS

Photography, Mutual Aid Organizing, Community-Based Art

VISION

To cultivate a world where art, storytelling, and community care are recognized as essential tools for collective liberation. She envisions communities that are sustained not by exclusion or survival alone, but by mutual aid, creativity, intergenerational knowledge, and collective healing.

Rhythms of rest

Dreaming a Civic Future From a Place of Rest

In a city shaped by urgency and burnout, rest is rarely prioritized despite being essential for sustainable participation in community and civic life. At its core, this gathering is a celebration and restoration of those who are showing up for others across their work, families, and communities. Join us for a specially curated experience rooted in community care through local artists, poets, craftmakers, and healers.

Brought to you in partnership with Lizvett Guizar Valencia & Isa Marie Garcia.

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