KLBRI is a grassroots organization and fiscal project of Los Angeles Indigenous People’s Alliance (LAIPA). KLBRI was founded in 2021 by Dr. Patty Ramirez in response to the political context of unaccompanied minors, family separation, migrant caravans, racial trauma, police brutality, and mass incarceration. These along with a global health pandemic functioned as exacerbating factors on the impact of race-based stress that has fatigued black, indigenous, people of color social justice leaders threatening the sustainability of social justice organizations and movements.

 

The mission of the Institute is to uplift and sustain advocates and leaders through an ecosystem of care, well-being, and healing.